Tom Kim
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| Full name | Kim Joo-hyung | ||||||
| Nickname | Tom | ||||||
| Born | 21 June 2002 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||
| Sporting nationality |  South Korea | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
| Turned professional | 2018 | ||||||
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour | ||||||
| Former tour(s) | Asian Tour Korean Tour Asian Development Tour All Thailand Golf Tour Philippine Golf Tour | ||||||
| Professional wins | 12 | ||||||
| Highest ranking | 11 (15 October 2023)[1] (as of 24 November 2024) | ||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||
| PGA Tour | 3 | ||||||
| Asian Tour | 2 | ||||||
| Other | 7 | ||||||
| Best results in major championships | |||||||
| Masters Tournament | T16: 2023 | ||||||
| PGA Championship | T26: 2024 | ||||||
| U.S. Open | T8: 2023 | ||||||
| The Open Championship | T2: 2023 | ||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||
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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.
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
- 2017 Philippine Junior Amateur
- 2018 Philippine Amateur Open Championship, W Express RVF Cup Amateur Championship
Source:[14]
Professional wins (12)
PGA Tour wins (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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| 1 | 7 Aug 2022 | Wyndham Championship | −20 (67-64-68-61=260) | 5 strokes |  John Huh, Im Sung-jae
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| 2 | 9 Oct 2022 | Shriners Children's Open | −24 (65-67-62-66=260) | 3 strokes | Patrick Cantlay, Matthew NeSmith
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| 3 | 15 Oct 2023 | Shriners Children's Open (2) | −20 (68-68-62-66=264) | 1 stroke |  Adam Hadwin
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PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024 | Travelers Championship | Scottie Scheffler
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Lost to par on first extra hole |
Asian Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 Nov 2019 | Panasonic Open India1 | −13 (70-68-65=203)* | 1 stroke |  S. Chikkarangappa, Shiv Kapur
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| 2 | 16 Jan 2022 | Singapore International | −4 (72-73-69-70=284) | Playoff |  Rattanon Wannasrichan
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*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. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2022 | Singapore International | Rattanon Wannasrichan
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Won with birdie on first extra hole |
Korean Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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| 1 | 12 Jul 2020 | KPGA Gunsan CC Open | −16 (65-70-64-69=268) | 2 strokes | Kim Min-kyu
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| 2 | 13 Jun 2021 | SK Telecom Open | −14 (67-70-65-68=270) | 3 strokes | Kim Baek-jun (a)
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Korean Tour playoff record (0–2)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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| 1 | 2020 | Woosung Construction Aramir CC Busan Gyeongnam Open | Lee Ji-hoon
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Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 2024 | Genesis Championship | An Byeong-hun
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Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
Asian Development Tour wins (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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| 1 | 29 Jun 2019 | Tiara Melaka Championship1 | −23 (69-63-67-66=265) | 6 strokes |  Sukree Othman,  Naoki Sekito
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| 2 | 24 Aug 2019 | Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament2 | −18 (69-68-66-67=270) | Playoff |  Mardan Mamat
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| 3 | 20 Oct 2019 | Raya Pakistan Open | −17 (66-64-68-73=271) | 9 strokes |  Muhammad Shabbir
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1Co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Indonesia
Philippine Golf Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 Jul 2018 | ICTSI Pueblo de Oro Championship | −18 (69-63-69-69=270) | 1 stroke |  Jobim Carlos
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| 2 | 26 Apr 2019 | TCC Invitational | +2 (75-71-70-74=290) | 1 stroke | Keanu Jahns
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Playoff record
European Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024 | Genesis Championship | An Byeong-hun
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Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
Results in major championships
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Masters Tournament | T16 | T30 | |||
| PGA Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | T26 | |
| U.S. Open | 23 | T8 | T26 | ||
| The Open Championship | NT | T47 | T2 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = no tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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| Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| The Open Championship | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Totals | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 8 |
- Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2023 U.S. Open – 2024 U.S. Open)
- Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2023 U.S. Open – 2023 Open Championship)
Results in The Players Championship
| Tournament | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| The Players Championship | T51 | WD |
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Results in World Golf Championships
| Tournament | 2023 |
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| Match Play | T31 |
"T" = Tied
Team appearances
Professional
- Presidents Cup (representing the International team): 2022, 2024
References
- ^ "Week 41 2023 Ending 15 Oct 2023" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ "Shiv Kapur's errant drive on last hole hands Korean teen the Panasonic Open India title". The Hindu BusinessLine. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Interview with golf sensation Kim Joo-hyung". The Dong-a Ilbo. 20 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Whiz kid Kim wins the Panasonic Open India". Asian Tour. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Joohyung Kim King of the Tour". Asian Tour. 23 January 2022.
- ^ "Kim soars up DP World Tour Rankings as Schauffele claims Genesis Scottish Open title". Worldwide Golf. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "PGA Tour awards Joohyung Kim special temporary membership". Your News. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Kimber, Jeff (1 August 2022). "Asian Tour Star Joohyung Kim Earns PGA Tour Card". Golf Monthly. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "Joohyung Kim, 20, earns PGA Tour card with 61 to win Wyndham Championship". ESPN. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ Beall, Joel (25 September 2022). "Presidents Cup 2022: Our grades for all 24 players, from an A+ for Spieth to an F for Scheffler". Golf Digest. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ Shedloski, Dave (9 October 2022). "Tom Kim's remarkable ride continues after win in Las Vegas (and with a little help from Patrick Cantlay)". Golf Digest. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ "Tom Kim wins in Las Vegas for the 2nd time in the same PGA Tour season". Associated Press News. 15 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ Powers, Christopher (23 September 2020). "Tour pro says he got his nickname from Thomas the Tank Engine, is dead serious". Golf Digest.
- ^ "Joo Hyung Kim". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
External links
- Tom Kim at the PGA Tour official site
- Tom Kim at the European Tour official site
- Joohyung Kim at the Korean Tour official site (in Korean)
- Tom Kim at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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