Tom Kim

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Tom Kim
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Kim in 2023
Personal information
Full nameKim Joo-hyung
NicknameTom
Born (2002-06-21) 21 June 2002 (age 21)
Seoul, South Korea
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Sporting nationalityFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Career
Turned professional2018
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Asian Tour
Korean Tour
Former tour(s) Asian Development Tour
Philippine Golf Tour
Professional wins12
Highest ranking 11 (15 October 2023) [1]
(as of 19 November 2023)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour3
Asian Tour2
Other7
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T16: 2023
PGA Championship CUT: 2020, 2022, 2023
U.S. Open T8: 2023
The Open Championship T2: 2023
Achievements and awards
Korean Tour
Order of Merit winner 		2021
Korean Tour
Player of the Year 		2021
Asian Tour
Order of Merit winner 		2020–21–22

Kim Joo-hyung (Korean : 김주형; born 21 June 2002), commonly known as Tom Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer. He has won three times on the PGA Tour, and twice on both the Asian Tour and the Korean Tour.

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Early life and amateur career

Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and is the son of a professional golfer, Kim Chang-ik, who played on the Buy.com Tour before becoming a teaching professional. [2] [3] As a result, Kim was based in Australia, the Philippines and later Thailand for a number of years. [4] In 2018 he won the Philippine Amateur Open Championship and the W Express RVF Cup Amateur Championship. [4]

Professional career

Kim turned professional in May 2018, playing on the Philippine Golf Tour. [4] In 2019 he initially played mostly on the Asian Development Tour. In March he had two fourth-place finishes in Malaysia and then two runner-up finishes in Thailand before winning his first event, the PGM ADT Championship, in Malaysia in late June, six strokes ahead of the field. He won the Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament in Indonesia in August, after a playoff, and the Raya Pakistan Open by nine shots in October. His third win gave him automatic promotion to the Asian Tour for the rest of 2019. [4] In November, he won the Panasonic Open India, becoming, at 17 years and 149 days, the second youngest professional to win on the Asian Tour. [4] The event was reduced to 54 holes because of smog.

In early 2020, he finished fourth in the SMBC Singapore Open. The event was part of the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry into the 2020 Open Championship, his first major championship.

Kim won the 2022 Singapore International, beating Rattanon Wannasrichan in a playoff. The following week he recorded a runner-up finish at the SMBC Singapore Open, seeing him finish as the leading money winner of the 2020–21–22 Asian Tour season. [5] In July, Kim finished solo-third at the Genesis Scottish Open, a co-sanctioned event between the PGA Tour and the European Tour; [6] he was one of three players who had earned entry to the tournament through the Korea Professional Golfers' Association (KPGA). With a T47 finish at the 2022 Open Championship, Kim became eligible for Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour for the remainder of the 2021–22 season. [7] He earned his PGA Tour card for the 2022–23 season with a 7th place finish at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. [8] The following week, he shot a final-round 61 to win the Wyndham Championship and gain entry into the 2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs. At the Wyndham Championship, he began the tournament with a quadruple-bogey 8 and finished it with a 9-under 61 for a five-shot victory. [9]

Kim qualified for the International team at the 2022 Presidents Cup; he won two and lost three of the five matches he played, and was hailed by the media as one of the stars of the event due to his entertaining play. [10]

In October 2022, Kim won the Shriners Children's Open in Las Vegas, Nevada; in doing so, he became the second youngest two-time PGA Tour winner behind Ralph Guldahl, and the first player to win twice on tour before the age of 21 since Tiger Woods in 1996. [11]

In October 2023, Kim won the Shriners Children's Open for the second consecutive time, joining Byron Nelson as the only golfers to have won the same PGA Tour event twice in the same season. [12]

Personal life

Kim also goes by Tom, a name derived from Thomas the Tank Engine. [13]

Amateur wins

Source: [14]

Professional wins (12)

PGA Tour wins (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
17 Aug 2022 Wyndham Championship −20 (67-64-68-61=260)5 strokes Flag of the United States.svg John Huh, Flag of South Korea.svg Im Sung-jae
29 Oct 2022 Shriners Children's Open −24 (65-67-62-66=260)3 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Cantlay, Flag of the United States.svg Matthew NeSmith
315 Oct 2023 Shriners Children's Open (2)−20 (68-68-62-66=264)1 stroke Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Adam Hadwin

Asian Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
117 Nov 2019 Panasonic Open India 1−13 (70-68-65=203)*1 stroke Flag of India.svg S. Chikkarangappa, Flag of India.svg Shiv Kapur
216 Jan 2022 Singapore International −4 (72-73-69-70=284)Playoff Flag of Thailand.svg Rattanon Wannasrichan

*Note: The 2019 Panasonic Open India was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
1Co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India

Asian Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2022 Singapore International Flag of Thailand.svg Rattanon Wannasrichan Won with birdie on first extra hole

Korean Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
112 Jul 2020 KPGA Gunsan CC Open −16 (65-70-64-69=268)2 strokes Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Min-kyu
213 Jun 2021 SK Telecom Open −14 (67-70-65-68=270)3 strokes Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Baek-jun (a)

Asian Development Tour wins (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
129 Jun 2019 Tiara Melaka Championship1−23 (69-63-67-66=265)6 strokes Flag of Malaysia.svg Sukree Othman, Flag of Japan.svg Naoki Sekito
224 Aug 2019Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament2−18 (69-68-66-67=270)Playoff Flag of Singapore.svg Mardan Mamat
320 Oct 2019 Raya Pakistan Open −17 (66-64-68-73=271)9 strokes Flag of Pakistan.svg Muhammad Shabbir

1Co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Indonesia

Philippine Golf Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
17 Jul 2018 ICTSI Pueblo de Oro Championship−18 (69-63-69-69=270)1 stroke Flag of the Philippines.svg Jobim Carlos
226 Apr 2019 TCC Invitational+2 (75-71-70-74=290)1 stroke Flag of the Philippines.svg Keanu Jahns

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament2020202120222023
Masters Tournament T16
PGA Championship CUTCUTCUT
U.S. Open 23T8
The Open Championship NTT47T2
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament2023
The Players Championship T51

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament2023
Match Play T31

"T" = Tied

Team appearances

Professional

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