Less than 24 hours before the first tee shot flies at Colonial Country Club, Max Homa is shaking things up, again.
The six-time PGA Tour winner has parted ways with caddie Lance Bennett, a veteran who caddied for Matt Kuchar during his Players Championship win in 2012, and more famously carried the bag for Tiger Woods at the 2024 Masters.
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Bennett has worked with several notable players over the years, including Sungjae Im, Davis Riley, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, and multiple LPGA Tour golfers.
Homa hired Bennett in June 2025 ahead of the RBC Canadian Open. The partnership began quietly, with Homa missing the cut despite opening rounds of 69 and 69.
Now, less than a year later, Bennett is out, and Peter Pappageorge, a longtime friend of Homa’s, has registered as his new caddie and is expected to be on the bag at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Notably, Homa’s decision comes less than two weeks after he missed the cut at the PGA Championship.
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Homa, who once climbed as high as No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking, enters Colonial ranked No. 123 in the world.
He’s sitting at No. 74 in the FedEx Cup standings, having made nine cuts in 13 starts this season.
His lone top 10 came at the Masters.
The missed cut at the PGA Championship was the final straw with Bennett.
Homa tees off at the Charles Schwab Challenge on Thursday morning at 8:11 a.m. alongside Lanto Griffin and Rasmus Højgaard.
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His most recent appearance at this very event, in 2024, ended in a missed cut after he shot 7-over.
His best result here was a T9 in 2023, so the course isn’t exactly a safe haven either.
This isn’t Homa’s first rodeo with bag changes.
For a decade, he and childhood best friend Joe Greiner were as synonymous as any player-caddie duo on Tour.
But golf is a business, and they eventually parted ways.
After a stint with Bill Harke, Homa landed Bennett. Now, after a missed cut at a major, that chapter closes too.
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