Tom Kim

For the physician, see Tom Kim (physician).
"Kim Joo-hyung" redirects here. For the football player, see Kim Ju-hyoung.

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Tom Kim
Kim in 2023
Personal information
Full nameKim Joo-hyung
NicknameTom
Born (2002-06-21) 21 June 2002 (age 22)
Seoul, South Korea
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Sporting nationality South Korea
Career
Turned professional2018
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 wins12
Highest ranking11 (15 October 2023)[1]
(as of 17 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour3
Asian Tour2
Other7
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT16: 2023
PGA ChampionshipT26: 2024
U.S. OpenT8: 2023
The Open ChampionshipT2: 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.

Early life and amateur career

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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

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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

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

Amateur wins

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  • 2017 Philippine Junior Amateur
  • 2018 Philippine Amateur Open Championship, W Express RVF Cup Amateur Championship

Source:[14]

Professional wins (12)

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PGA Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 7 Aug 2022 Wyndham Championship −20 (67-64-68-61=260) 5 strokes United States John Huh, South Korea Im Sung-jae
2 9 Oct 2022 Shriners Children's Open −24 (65-67-62-66=260) 3 strokes United States Patrick Cantlay, United States Matthew NeSmith
3 15 Oct 2023 Shriners Children's Open (2) −20 (68-68-62-66=264) 1 stroke Canada Adam Hadwin

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2024 Travelers Championship United States Scottie Scheffler Lost to par on first extra hole

Asian Tour wins (2)

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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 India S. Chikkarangappa, India Shiv Kapur
2 16 Jan 2022 Singapore International −4 (72-73-69-70=284) Playoff Thailand 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. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2022 Singapore International Thailand Rattanon Wannasrichan Won with birdie on first extra hole

Korean Tour wins (2)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 12 Jul 2020 KPGA Gunsan CC Open −16 (65-70-64-69=268) 2 strokes South Korea Kim Min-kyu
2 13 Jun 2021 SK Telecom Open −14 (67-70-65-68=270) 3 strokes South Korea Kim Baek-jun (a)

Korean Tour playoff record (0–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2020 Woosung Construction Aramir CC Busan Gyeongnam Open South Korea Lee Ji-hoon Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2 2024 Genesis Championship South Korea An Byeong-hun Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Asian Development Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 29 Jun 2019 Tiara Melaka Championship1 −23 (69-63-67-66=265) 6 strokes Malaysia Sukree Othman, Japan Naoki Sekito
2 24 Aug 2019 Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament2 −18 (69-68-66-67=270) Playoff Singapore Mardan Mamat
3 20 Oct 2019 Raya Pakistan Open −17 (66-64-68-73=271) 9 strokes Pakistan Muhammad Shabbir

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

Philippine Golf Tour wins (2)

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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 Philippines Jobim Carlos
2 26 Apr 2019 TCC Invitational +2 (75-71-70-74=290) 1 stroke Philippines Keanu Jahns

Playoff record

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European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2024 Genesis Championship South Korea An Byeong-hun Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

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Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Masters Tournament T16 T30
PGA Championship CUT CUT CUT T26
U.S. Open 23 T8 T26
The Open Championship NT T47 T2 CUT
  Top 10
  Did not play

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

Summary

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Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
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

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Tournament 2023 2024
The Players Championship T51 WD

WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

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Tournament 2023
Match Play T31

"T" = Tied

Team appearances

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Professional

References

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  1. ^ "Week 41 2023 Ending 15 Oct 2023" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Shiv Kapur's errant drive on last hole hands Korean teen the Panasonic Open India title". The Hindu BusinessLine. 17 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Interview with golf sensation Kim Joo-hyung". The Dong-a Ilbo. 20 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Whiz kid Kim wins the Panasonic Open India". Asian Tour. 17 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Joohyung Kim King of the Tour". Asian Tour. 23 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Kim soars up DP World Tour Rankings as Schauffele claims Genesis Scottish Open title". Worldwide Golf. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  7. ^ "PGA Tour awards Joohyung Kim special temporary membership". Your News. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  8. ^ Kimber, Jeff (1 August 2022). "Asian Tour Star Joohyung Kim Earns PGA Tour Card". Golf Monthly. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Joohyung Kim, 20, earns PGA Tour card with 61 to win Wyndham Championship". ESPN. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "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.
  13. ^ Powers, Christopher (23 September 2020). "Tour pro says he got his nickname from Thomas the Tank Engine, is dead serious". Golf Digest.
  14. ^ "Joo Hyung Kim". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
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