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

Six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa and Dr. Tina Bhutani talk to Fox News Digital about dealing with seb derm, how to best treat it.

Six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa has battled more than the stiff competition throughout his career. He has also battled seborrheic dermatitis, a chronic skin condition.

Seborrheic dermatitis, more commonly known as seb derm, is something the 35-year-old golfer said he has dealt with since high school.

"I think (in high school) I noticed I had dandruff or what I thought was dandruff. And you know, you see it on commercials, everyone's got that, so no big deal," Homa told Fox News Digital as a part of Arcutis’ Free to Be Me campaign.

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Max Homa plays his tee shot on the third hole during the first round of the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Feb. 5, 2026. (Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"As I got older, started to get a lot of redness on my face and I tried everything over the counter, creams or whatever lotions and I could get things to like help it a little bit, but never sustainable."

Homa said that being out in public a lot, it’s not ideal to wear a blotch on your face to counteract what seb derm, and said that in his beard it became painful. Homa credited his wife for getting him to go see a dermatologist about it.

The Burbank, California, native said that having seb derm is a very humbling thing, and he wasn’t planning on talking about it until Arcutis reached out to be a partner. He hoped that being open and vulnerable encouraged others to get checked out.

"It's not something I was ever looking to do. But kind of after some thought, when Arcutis wanted to partner, I thought