Max Homa’s 180-degree transformation on full display in gritty Wells Fargo win
“It's the hardest thing I found in learning about all this stuff, or reading about all this stuff, about happiness and gratitude,” he said at the Genesis Invitational in February. “I can only speak for my life, but in this life it’s competitive, and I'm raised to step on someone's throat and win at all costs and whatever. Now it's also like I'm just supposed to be happy for the opportunity. So there's a blend, but I think it comes from—there's a great book called The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and one of them is the law of detachment … when you pretty much are OK with whatever happens and you can only just put in what you can put in and you control what you can control. If you can get peace through that, then the rest of it just becomes its own competition and its own fun.”