Max Homa’s 5-under 66 Friday at the Bank of Utah Championship has Homa eyeing his first PGA Tour victory since the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open.

Homa can also barely walk.

It’s an issue, Homa says, that has only popped up a couple times this year, but this was one of those occasions, as Homa needed in-round treatment on his right ankle that is suffering from a “pretty good-sized bone spur on the top.”

“I’ve had it for a little while,” Homa said. “I had planned on getting it taken out when we have a little bit of time off, so it was just kind of ironic. It almost never gets inflamed, but I think this place is pretty hard to walk.”

Homa said he first noticed pain in the ankle while walking down the 12th fairway, his third hole of the day. By the time he finished the hole with par, the ank

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