Michael Kim (golfer)

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Michael Kim
Personal information
Full nameMichael Sangwon Kim
Born (1993-07-14) July 14, 1993 (age 31)
Seoul, South Korea
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Residence Houston, Texas
Career
College University of California, Berkeley
Turned professional2013
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Former tour(s) Korn Ferry Tour
Professional wins1
Highest ranking 50 (March 30, 2025) [1]
(as of April 6, 2025)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T27: 2025
PGA Championship CUT: 2018, 2019
U.S. Open T17: 2013
The Open Championship T35: 2018
Achievements and awards
Haskins Award 2013

Michael Sangwon Kim (born July 14, 1993) is an American professional golfer with one PGA Tour victory.

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Early life

Kim is the son of Sun and Yun Kim. He was born in Seoul, South Korea but raised in San Diego, California, where he went to Torrey Pines High School.

College career

Kim attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was teammates with Max Homa. In April 2013, Kim was Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month.

On June 2, 2013, he became the first Cal men's golfer to ever win national player of the year honors when he was named by the Golf Coaches Association of America as the Division I recipient of the 2013 Jack Nicklaus Award.

On June 11, 2013, Kim won the Haskins Award, which is given to the national player of the year in men's college golf and selected by voting from players, coaches and members of the national media. [2]

2013 U.S. Open

Kim qualified for the 2013 U.S. Open by being co-medalist at his sectional qualifier. [3] After the third round, Kim was tied for 10th. [4] He finished tied for 17th and was the low amateur.

Professional career

Kim turned professional in December 2013. [5] He had limited status on the 2014 Web.com Tour after finishing T-56 at the Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament. He played in 17 events, making the cut in eleven with the best finish of T-2 at the Price Cutter Charity Championship.

Kim played on the Web.com Tour again in 2015 based on his finish in the Web.com Tour Finals. He finished 13th on the money list in the 2015 Web.com Tour, earning a full-time membership to the PGA Tour for 2016.

Kim has been a full-time member of the PGA Tour since 2016, and won his first PGA Tour event at the 2018 John Deere Classic by eight shots, setting the Tournament scoring record. In the process, he earned the final invitation to the 2018 Open Championship.

Kim missed 19 cuts in 20 events on the PGA Tour in 2019 and, as of August 26, 2019, fell to 502nd in the Official World Golf Ranking.

In the 2020–21 PGA Tour season, Kim made only nine cuts in thirty starts and finished 214th in the 2021 FedEx Cup. He lost his full PGA Tour Card. In 2021–22, Kim returned to the Korn Ferry Tour and regained his PGA Tour card for the 2022–23 PGA Tour season.

He finished T2 at the 2025 WM Phoenix Open.

Professional wins (1)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runners-up
1Jul 15, 2018 John Deere Classic 63-64-64-66=257−278 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Bronson Burgoon, Flag of the United States.svg Joel Dahmen,
Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Molinari, Flag of the United States.svg Sam Ryder

Results in major championships

Tournament201320142015201620172018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open T17LA
The Open Championship T35
PGA Championship CUT
Tournament2019202020212022202320242025
Masters Tournament CUTT27
PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship NTCUT
  Did not play

LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = no tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament2025
The Players Championship CUT

CUT = missed the half-way cut

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Week 13 2025 Ending 30 Mar 2025" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Cal sophomore Michael Kim wins Haskins Award". Golfweek. June 11, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Michael Kim Bio - The University of California Official Athletic Site". Calbears.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ Evans, Farrell (June 16, 2013). "Amateur Kim earns notice at Merion". ESPN. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Michael Kim leaving Cal to turn pro; will make PGA debut at Torrey Pines". Cal Athletics. December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
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