As Max Homa was making his way from the Masters to the RBC Heritage on Monday, a 2½-hour drive that seems to start in one fever-dream dimension and end in another moss-draped dimension, he pulled into a drive-thru line at Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Homa was hungry and went deep with his order, getting a chicken sandwich, 12 chicken nuggets, an order of waffle fries and sweet tea.
When it came time to pay, Homa found out that a woman in the adjacent drive-thru line had paid it forward.
“The person taking the order told me that the woman in the row next to me had paid for whatever I was going to get. She said that her son is 3 or 4 and I'm his favorite golfer, so it was pretty cool. I don't know; those kinds of things, I still pinch myself,” said Homa, who thanked the woman while they waited to pick up their food.
“I just pinch myself at times with the kindness people have given me just because I play some golf. I feel very fortunate for that.”
It didn’t matter that Homa had won $1.04 million with his tie for third at Augusta National. It was another example of Homa’s popularity, built as much or more on his personality as his golf.
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