Tiger Woods has made his feelings on Max Homa clear after two rounds together at the Masters

Tiger Woods watched on as Max Homa played brilliant golf to put himself top of the Masters leaderboard on Friday, tied for the lead with Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler

After seeing Max Homa up close and personal, Tiger Woods believes it is only a matter of time before the 33-year-old starts dominating the game.

Woods played with Homa across both Thursday and Friday at the Masters and watched on as his playing partner shot himself into green jacket contention. Homa recorded a 67 in the opening round and an even more impressive 71 in terrible conditions on Friday. He now enters Saturday tied for the lead with Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau.

Woods, who played well under the circumstances to shoot 1-over across the two days and break the Masters cut record, has been suitably impressed with Homa. And even more so with his countryman's ball striking.

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Speaking about Homa, he said: "He's got all the talent in the world. I got a chance to play with him at the Open Championship at St Andrews, and his ball flight, as solid as he hits it, it's just a matter of time before he starts winning in bunches. I saw it up front; he doesn't really mis-hit shots. That's something you just have to do around this golf course."

Ironically, despite competing at the top of leaderboard at Augusta National, Homa had been more focussed on watching his playing partner Woods make his record 24th consecutive cut at the Masters

“I would just say that the memories will just be a lot of the Tiger stuff,” he said. “I hope to build my own come this weekend, but I fortunately think I've done a good enough job of playing it one shot at a time and I tried to play as boring as possible.”

The self-deprecating Homa was more famous for his dry humour on social media than his golf before winning six PGA Tour titles and making his Ryder Cup debut.

In 2017, as he was missing 15 out of 17 cuts, he was inundated with offers after advertising for a new caddie. He joked on X: “They heard they usually get weekends off which is apparently a great selling point.”

And asked if it was easy to block out the crowd circus playing with Woods, Homa said: “I would argue they block me and Jason (Day) out. So it's actually quite easy. It was awesome. It really is a dream to get to play with him here. He's special.”

The American added: “I'm very fortunate. I have a wife that does not let me gloat, and I have friends back at the house that will just want to hear about what Tiger did today. So I'm surrounded by some awesome people.”