Anthony Kim’s return to golf includes a specific schedule for his return.
The 38-year-old, who last played in a PGA Tour event in May 2012 and has hardly been seen or heard from since, will be a wild card when LIV Golf hosts the event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, next weekend. He is scheduled to appear as a participant.Arabia March 1st to March 3rd According to Golf Channel.
After withdrawing from the Wells Fargo Championship and undergoing Achilles surgery 12 years ago, the brash Kim, then 26, essentially disappeared from the golf world. This is an amazing development considering he had previously won three tournaments and climbed as high as sixth place. In ranking.
However, near the end of January, Golf.com It was reported that Kim is close to making a comeback. After “stepping up his training,” he was in negotiations with the tour and LIV Golf, and a key point in those negotiations revolved around a $10 million insurance policy that Kim would give up upon his return.
Details about his future with LIV Golf, other than an upcoming event at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, remain unclear, but Golf.com reported last month that golfer Dustin Johnson and others have become Kim’s guarantors. CEO Greg Norman called him and then reported that LIV Golf had made an offer. According to the paper, the insurance policy was a one-year contract that “entitled you to win prize money and on top of that, you also get a sponsorship deal.”
As a wild card participant, Kim has a chance to win an individual award even though he is not on a team participating in the Saudi-backed league. Sports according to Yahoo!.
Kim’s PGA Tour debut ended with a runner-up finish at the 2006 Valero Texas Open, but two years later he won his first two tournaments (Wachovia Championship and AT&T National) and had six other top-10 finishes. was recorded.
Then, a week after winning his third and final championship at the 2010 Shell Houston Open, he finished third at the Masters, shooting a 73 on Saturday, but then shot a 65 in the final round to become the champion. He finished 4 strokes behind Phil Mickelson.
After his final round in 2010, Kim told reporters, “I feel like I’ve actually been able to overcome a little bump in my golf career where I felt like things were stagnant.” According to Golf Week. “I think I was expecting to hit a 65 every time I teed it up. . . . Then I start pressing and I start going for birdies and I start going for pins that I don’t necessarily want to go for. Now my attitude… And I know if I can get the ball rolling again, I can be at a different level.”
The all-important Wells Fargo Championship appearance came just 25 months after Kim withdrew after the first round.
Since then, Kim has only finished in the top 10 three times.
And an unusual spiral and extended absence made Friday’s impending return a convincing comeback.
