Chan Kim

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Chan Kim
Personal information
Born (1990-03-24) March 24, 1990 (age 34)
Suwon, South Korea
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Residence Gilbert, Arizona, U.S.
Career
College Arizona State University
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Former tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
Asian Tour
Korn Ferry Tour
Challenge Tour
Canadian Tour
Professional wins10
Highest ranking 61 (December 29, 2019) [1]
(as of November 10, 2024)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour8
Korn Ferry Tour2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
PGA Championship T23: 2021
U.S. Open CUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
The Open Championship T11: 2017
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
Rookie of the Year 		2017
Japan Golf Tour
money list winner 		2020–21
Japan Golf Tour
Most Valuable Player 		2020–21

Chan Kim (born March 24, 1990) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. He formerly played on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won eight times.

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Early life

Kim was born in Suwon, South Korea, but grew up in Hawaii. [2]

Amateur career

Kim played his college golf at Arizona State University. [3]

He won the 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur. [4] He was also a two-time winner of the Arizona Stroke Play Championship. [5]

Professional career

Kim played on the Canadian Tour in 2011. [6] He played on the Challenge Tour in 2013 and the Asian Tour in 2013 and 2014. [6] In 2013, he was runner-up at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship. [7] He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2015. [6]

He won the Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour to earn a spot in the 2017 Open Championship. Earlier that week he earned a qualifying spot to the 2017 U.S. Open. [8] In early July, he won his second Japan Golf Tour event, the Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup, after a bogey-free final round of 66.

In August 2023, Kim won his first event on the Korn Ferry Tour, winning the Magnit Championship by three shots. [9] He then won the Albertsons Boise Open the week after and by the end of the season, he secured his PGA Tour Card for the next season by finishing 2nd on the points list. [10]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (10)

Japan Golf Tour wins (8)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Japan majors (2) [a]
Other Japan Golf Tour (6)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
1May 28, 2017 Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open −15 (68-70-67-68=273)5 strokes Flag of New Zealand.svg Michael Hendry
2Jul 9, 2017 Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup −18 (67-70-67-66=270)1 stroke Flag of South Korea.svg Hwang Jung-gon
3Nov 5, 2017 Heiwa PGM Championship −6 (67-70-72-69=278)1 stroke Flag of Japan.svg Yuta Ikeda, Flag of South Korea.svg Song Young-han
4Oct 20, 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship +1 (74-69-75-67=285)1 stroke Flag of Japan.svg Mikumu Horikawa, Flag of South Africa.svg Shaun Norris
5Dec 6, 2020 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup −8 (66-66-73-67=272)1 stroke Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Iwata, Flag of Japan.svg Tomoharu Otsuki,
Flag of Japan.svg Hideto Tanihara
6Oct 3, 2021 Vantelin Tokai Classic −14 (64-68-69-69=270)2 strokes Flag of Japan.svg Yuta Ikeda, Flag of Japan.svg Jinichiro Kozuma,
Flag of Japan.svg Tomoharu Otsuki
7Nov 21, 2021 Dunlop Phoenix Tournament −17 (69-69-66-63=267)1 stroke Flag of Japan.svg Naoyuki Kataoka, Flag of Japan.svg Ryosuke Kinoshita
8Nov 27, 2022 Casio World Open −32 (64-66-64-62=256)6 strokes Flag of Japan.svg Aguri Iwasaki

Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

Legend
Finals events (1)
Other Korn Ferry Tour (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1Aug 20, 2023 Magnit Championship −20 (70-66-68-64=268)3 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Taylor Dickson
2Aug 27, 2023 Albertsons Boise Open −28 (66-62-64-64=256)2 strokes Flag of the United States.svg David Kocher

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament20172018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship T11
PGA Championship
Tournament2019202020212022
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship CUTT23CUT
U.S. Open CUTCUTCUTCUT
The Open Championship CUTNTT53CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament20172018201920202021
Championship T35
Match Play NT1
Invitational
Champions T58T46NT1NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship was also a Japan major championship.

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References

  1. ↑ "Week 52 2019 Ending 29 Dec 2019" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ Gray, Will (May 28, 2017). "Four Qualify for The Open Via Mizuno Open". Golf Channel. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Herrington, Ryan (May 28, 2017). "Chan Kim is going to have a busy summer thanks to his play over the last six days in Japan". Golf Digest. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Kim wins Pacific Coast Amateur". Golfweek. August 1, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Chan Kim captures his second Arizona Stroke Play Championship by four shots". Arizona Golfer News. May 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 "Chan Kim". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Golf-Thai veteran Thaworn wins record 16th Asian Tour title". Reuters. September 15, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017.[ dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Chan Kim wins Mizuno Open to qualify for Open Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Chan Kim rallies to win Magnit Championship, moves into top 15 on Korn Ferry Tour Points List". PGA Tour. August 21, 2023. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Meet the 30 newest PGA Tour members, 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduates". PGA Tour. October 8, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Hawaii State Amateur Past Champions" (PDF). Hawaii State Golf.
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