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 from March 1 to March 3, 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 reached sixth place. In ranking.
However, near the end of January, Golf.com reported that Kim was “stepping up her training” to move closer to her return and was in talks with the Tour and LIV Golf, with the key to the negotiations being a $10 million insurance policy for Kim. It revolved around contracts. Will return and surrender.
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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.”
According to Yahoo!, as a wild card participant, Kim has a chance to win the individual award even though he is not participating in the Saudi-backed league. Sports.
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 six other top-10 finishes. was recorded. A week after his third and final victory at the 2010 Shell Houston Open, he placed third at the Masters, recovering from Saturday's 73 to shoot a final-round 65 to edge champion Phil Mickelson. He finished with a four-stroke lead.
According to Golfweek, Kim told reporters after her final round in 2010, “I feel like I've actually been able to overcome a little bump in my golf career where I felt like things were stagnant.'' he said.
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“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.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post.
