Chan Kim
| Chan Kim | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | March 24, 1990 Suwon, South Korea | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||
| Career | |||
| College | Arizona State University | ||
| Turned professional | 2010 | ||
| Current tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour | ||
| Former tour(s) | Asian Tour Challenge Tour Canadian Tour | ||
| Professional wins | 7 | ||
| Highest ranking | 61 (December 29, 2019)[1] (as of October 30, 2022) | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| Japan Golf Tour | 7 | ||
| Best results in major championships | |||
| Masters Tournament | DNP | ||
| PGA Championship | T23: 2021 | ||
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 | ||
| The Open Championship | T11: 2017 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Chan Kim (born March 24, 1990) is an American professional golfer who currently competes on the Japan Golf Tour.
Early life
Kim was born in Suwon, South Korea, but grew up in Hawaii.[2]
Amateur career
Kim played his college golf at Arizona State University.[3]
He won the 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur.[4] He was also twice winner of the Arizona Stroke Play Championship.[5]
Professional career
Kim played on the Canadian Tour in 2011.[6] He played on the Challenge Tour in 2013 and the Asian Tour in 2013 and 2014.[6] In 2013, he was runner-up at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship.[7] He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2015.[6]
He won the Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour to earn a spot in the 2017 Open Championship. Earlier that week he earned a qualifying spot to the 2017 U.S. Open.[8] In early July, he won his second Japan Golf Tour event, the Sega Sammy Cup, after a bogey-free final round of 66.
Amateur wins
- 2007 Hawaii Amateur[9]
- 2008 Arizona Stroke Play Championship, Thunderbird International
- 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur
- 2010 Arizona Stroke Play Championship
Professional wins (7)
Japan Golf Tour wins (7)
| Legend |
| Japan Opens (1) |
| Japan majors (2) |
| Other Japan Golf Tour (5) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2017 | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | −15 (68-70-67-68=273) | 5 strokes |  Michael Hendry
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| 2 | Jul 9, 2017 | Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup | −18 (67-70-67-66=270) | 1 stroke |  Hwang Jung-gon
|
| 3 | Nov 5, 2017 | Heiwa PGM Championship | −6 (67-70-72-69=278) | 1 stroke |  Yuta Ikeda, Song Young-han
|
| 4 | Oct 20, 2019 | Japan Open Golf Championship | +1 (74-69-75-67=285) | 1 stroke | Mikumu Horikawa,  Shaun Norris
|
| 5 | Dec 6, 2020 | Golf Nippon Series JT Cup | −8 (66-66-73-67=272) | 1 stroke | Hiroshi Iwata, Tomoharu Otsuki, Hideto Tanihara
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| 6 | Oct 3, 2021 | Vantelin Tokai Classic | −14 (64-68-69-69=270) | 2 strokes | Yuta Ikeda, Jinichiro Kozuma, Tomoharu Otsuki
|
| 7 | Nov 21, 2021 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −17 (69-69-66-63=267) | 1 stroke | Naoyuki Kataoka, Ryosuke Kinoshita
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- The Japan Open Golf Championship is also a Japan major championship.
Results in major championships
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | ||
| U.S. Open | CUT | |
| The Open Championship | T11 | |
| PGA Championship |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | ||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T23 | CUT | |
| U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| The Open Championship | CUT | NT | T53 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Results in World Golf Championships
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | T35 | ||||
| Match Play | NT1 | ||||
| Invitational | |||||
| Champions | T58 | T46 | NT1 | NT1 |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
References
- ^ "Week 52 2019 Ending 29 Dec 2019" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Gray, Will (May 28, 2017). "Four Qualify for The Open Via Mizuno Open". Golf Channel. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ Herrington, Ryan (May 28, 2017). "Chan Kim is going to have a busy summer thanks to his play over the last six days in Japan". Golf Digest. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ "Kim wins Pacific Coast Amateur". Golfweek. August 1, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ "Chan Kim captures his second Arizona Stroke Play Championship by four shots". Arizona Golfer News. May 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Chan Kim". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "Golf-Thai veteran Thaworn wins record 16th Asian Tour title". Reuters. September 15, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ "Chan Kim wins Mizuno Open to qualify for Open Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^ "Hawaii State Amateur Past Champions" (PDF). Hawaii State Golf.
External links
- Chan Kim at the European Tour official site
- Chan Kim at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Chan Kim at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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- American male golfers
- Arizona State Sun Devils men's golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- European Tour golfers
- Golfers from Hawaii
- American sportspeople of Korean descent
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- People from Suwon
- 1990 births
- Living people