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Max Homa celebrates like he won the claret jug with 29-footer to make Open cut

Homa fired up after 29-footer to make The Open cut
It means something to make the cut in a major, and Max Homa's reaction to his 29-footer to continue his weekend at The Open Championship is proof.

Max Homa appeared headed home. Thanks to a double bogey at the fifth and a triple bogey at the 12th, Homa was outside the projected cut line late Friday at The Open Championship.

He then birdied the par-5 16th to get one off the number and faced a 29-footer for birdie at the par-4 18th to make it to the weekend at Royal Troon.

Not only did Homa make the putt, he celebrated as if he won the claret jug.

“This is my favorite tournament in the world. So to have the chance to potentially play two more days, I don’t know, I had an out-of-body experience,” Homa said. “I didn’t really expect to yell like I won a golf tournament. It just felt really good. I felt like I fought all day.”

Homa’s 1-over 72 put him at 6 over for the championship and earned him two more rounds on the western Scottish links.

Homa collected his first-ever top-10 in a major last year at Royal Liverpool. He followed that with a T-3 at the Masters and a T-35 at the PGA, before missing the cut at the U.S. Open.