No longer just a beloved personality, Max Homa has evolved into one of the most efficient golfers on PGA Tour

Tremendous failure has helped turn one of golf's most likable players into one of its best

While you were busy enjoying his swing roasts on Twitter and listening to his self-psychoanalysis on myriad podcasts in the golf world, Max Homa was busy becoming one of the best players in the world. Unfortunately, because labels are sticky and enduring, the extremely online Homa will find that his perception will struggle to evolve at the same rate as the quality of his performance. While he will continue to primarily be known by the broader golf audience for his Twitter caricature, the numbers don't lie, and you should believe them for what they disclose: there are few golfers on the planet right now better than Max Homa.

Though Homa has nearly 400,000 followers on Twitter, the figures that matter to this specific discussion are actually much smaller than that. The first is 3 and the second is 1.2, and while those totals fall well short of his social media count, I would imagine Homa would trade the former big one for the latter small ones in an instant.

Homa's three wins since the start of 2021 represent both a 10% winning rate -- which is preposterous -- and are also more than the worldwide totals of Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka. Homa has normalized winning on the PGA Tour -- which is what happens when you win three of 30 events in which you play -- to the point that it is no longer surprising when he gets into contention. Nor is it surprising that over the last year and a half he has more worldwide trophies than that collection of six major winners above (which has 15 total major wins throughout their careers).