Max won his first PGA TOUR title at the 2019 Wells Fargo Championship, defeating Joel Dahmen by three strokes. The victory came in his 69th start at the age of 28 years, 5 months, 16 days. Max became the fifth player to make the Wells Fargo Championship his first win on TOUR.

Max defeated Tony Finau in a playoff to win The Genesis Invitational, earning his second PGA TOUR title and first since the 2019 Wells Fargo Championship. The victory came in his 110th career start at the age of 30 years, 3 months, 2 days. Max was the only player in the field to record four under-par scores.

Max was a first-team All-American his senior year, en route to Cal's first individual champion at the 2013 NCAA Championship.  Max also fired a 9-under-par, career-low 61 at the North Course at Los Angeles CC on his way to the Pac-12 individual title the same year.