PGA Tour’s baby boom: Camilo Villegas on being a father again while Max Homa announces he and wife are expecting

The PGA Tour is experiencing a Baby Boom.

Add Max Homa to the list of soon to be papas.

In the last two years, Tour pros from Rory McIlroy (Poppy) to Jon Rahm (Kepa) to Rickie Fowler (Maya) to Jordan Spieth (Sammy) have all joined the first-time father club.

It stretches beyond the big names. Mark Hubbard (Harlo), Hank Lebioda (Henry), Luke List (Harrison) and Harold Varner III (Liam) are proud papas too, and the list goes on. PGA Tour Daycare, or what the kids call Golf School, is going to be busy. But perhaps the happiest of the baby announcements was that of 40-year-old Camilo Villegas, who welcomed son Mateo on Dec. 21.

Villegas and wife Maria suffered the loss of daughter, Mia, who was 22 months old when she died of cancer in 2020. When Villegas spoke to Golfweek in October 2020, he expressed hope that he and his wife would have another baby.

“My wife was nervous at the beginning. We talked to the doctors and they said it was just a bad lottery ticket. There’s nothing that suggests this would happen again,” he said in the earlier story. “We’re looking forward. It took us a while to get pregnant. In the meantime, we’re going to help others, remember the good, and focus on what’s coming.”

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Ahead of the Mexico Open at Vidanta, Villegas spoke about being a parent again. “He’s great. He’s fun to be around,” Villegas said. “Mateo’s four months old and the family is doing good. Obviously 2020 was a tough year for us, but to have Mateo in our life is pretty special.

“We have Mia’s Miracles Foundation to just kind of add to the joy of giving back and helping others and giving a little purpose to our life and why we’re here and how we can once again give back. It was a tough experience, but without it we wouldn’t have Mia’s Miracles. And obviously we truly, truly miss Mia, but we’re going to do some great things for others and try to make the best of it.”

Villegas is embarking on a stretch of playing five straight weeks and noted it is difficult to be away apart for so long. “I’m missing him and I can’t wait to just play some good weeks and head back and just give him a hug,” he said.

On Monday, Homa announced on social media that he and his wife Lacey are expecting a boy. They did their “reveal” by having their dog run out with baby-blue balloons attached around its waist and a scarf that read, “Big sis.”

“So much perspective incoming #babyboy”