PGA Tour winner Max Homa opens up on dealing with chronic skin condition

Six-time PGA Tour victor Max Homa has battled much than the stiff contention passim his career. He has besides battled seborrheic dermatitis, a chronic tegument condition.

Seborrheic dermatitis, much commonly known arsenic seb derm, is thing the 35-year-old golfer said helium has dealt with since precocious school.

"I deliberation (in precocious school) I noticed I had dandruff oregon what I thought was dandruff. And you know, you spot it connected commercials, everyone's got that, truthful nary large deal," Homa told Fox News Digital arsenic a portion of Arcutis’ Free to Be Me campaign.

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Max Homa plays his tee changeable connected the 3rd spread during the archetypal circular of the WM Phoenix Open astatine TPC Scottsdale successful Scottsdale, Arizona, connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"As I got older, started to get a batch of redness connected my look and I tried everything implicit the counter, creams oregon immoderate lotions and I could get things to similar assistance it a small bit, but ne'er sustainable."

Homa said that being retired successful nationalist a lot, it’s not perfect to deterioration a blotch connected your look to counteract what seb derm, and said that successful his beard it became painful. Homa credited his woman for getting him to spell spot a dermatologist astir it.

The Burbank, California, autochthonal said that having seb derm is simply a precise humbling thing, and helium wasn’t readying connected talking astir it until Arcutis reached retired to beryllium a partner. He hoped that being unfastened and susceptible encouraged others to get checked out.

"It's not thing I was ever looking to do. But benignant of aft immoderate thought, erstwhile Arcutis wanted to partner, I thought to myself, man, if I could assistance idiosyncratic other benignant of get nudged to spell fig retired what's going connected with their skin," Homa said.

"Although it's not the easiest happening to do, I deliberation particularly for men, for immoderate reason, I don't know, precise men. We, we don't look to similar the dentist. We don't look to similar the dermatologist. We don't look to similar the doctor. All these things are, fortunately my woman makes maine spell to each these things now."

Jordan Spieth talks to Max Homa connected the 4th tee during the 3rd circular of the Genesis Invitational play tourney astatine Riviera Country Club successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 21, 2026. (Caroline Brehman/AP Photo)

Dr. Tina Bhutani, a board-certified dermatologist, objective researcher and CEO of Synergy Dermatology, told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation that 10 cardinal Americans woody with seb derm.

"Most communal areas are the scalp. That's what we call, you know, punctuation unquote dandruff.

But it really tin manifest successful different areas similar the face, the ears, the precocious chest, the precocious back," Bhutani told Fox News Digital.

"So it tin beryllium successful aggregate areas each astatine once, which makes it hard to unrecorded with. It's precise disposable and it has an interaction connected patients' prime of life."

Bhutani said if near untreated, it tin not lone get worse but proceed to spread. She recommended the archetypal measurement to being treated is to speech to your superior attraction doc and dermatologist for adjacent steps.

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Max Homa hits from the 3rd fairway during the 3rd circular of the Genesis Invitational play tourney astatine Riviera Country Club successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 21, 2026. (Caroline Brehman/AP Photo)

Homa said helium was prescribed Zoryve (reflumilast) foam, which is simply a 0.3% once-daily, steroid-free foam to dainty the itching, redness, and anyplace seb derm appears.

"It's similar a erstwhile regular for maine successful the greeting and I conscionable person much bid with it. I don't deliberation astir my tegument truly ever, which is cool," Homa said. "If it tin beryllium this casual for me, hopefully different radical tin find that."

Homa said it is not greasy, it’s not overbearing, and it takes conscionable a infinitesimal and a fractional to use successful the morning. He said the hardest portion of getting attraction was conscionable going to the dermatologist.

"Easily the astir hard portion was conscionable going to the dermatologist, which was not hard," Homa said with a laugh. "Like that was the, that was easy the hardest part."

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Max Homa waits to putt connected the eighth greenish during the archetypal circular of the Genesis Invitational play tourney astatine Riviera Country Club successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 19, 2026. (Caroline Brehman/AP Photo)

"So for the guys, I deliberation we spot our wives oregon important others oregon women successful general, similar they person tegument attraction routines. That's wherefore they are beauteous and we are not."

Homa wants radical to cognize however casual it is to get treated. "I conscionable privation radical to cognize that similar erstwhile you find a solution oregon thing that's moving for you, it's conscionable becomes a portion of your mundane and it is not overbearing."

Homa won the Wells Fargo Championship successful 2019; the Genesis Invitational and Fortinet Championship successful 2021; won the Wells Fargo Championship and Fortinet Championship again successful 2022; and the Farmers Insurance Open successful 2023.

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