Chan Kim

For the South Korean business theorist, see W. Chan Kim.

Chan Kim
Personal information
Born (1990-03-24) March 24, 1990 (age 34)
Suwon, South Korea
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st)
Sporting nationality United States
ResidenceGilbert, Arizona, U.S.
Career
CollegeArizona State University
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Asian Tour
Korn Ferry Tour
Challenge Tour
Canadian Tour
Professional wins10
Highest ranking61 (December 29, 2019)[1]
(as of November 24, 2024)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour8
Korn Ferry Tour2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT23: 2021
U.S. OpenCUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
The Open ChampionshipT11: 2017
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
Rookie of the Year		2017
Japan Golf Tour
money list winner		2020–21
Japan Golf Tour
Most Valuable Player		2020–21

Chan Kim (born March 24, 1990) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. He formerly played on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won eight times.

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 a two-time 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 Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup, after a bogey-free final round of 66.

In August 2023, Kim won his first event on the Korn Ferry Tour, winning the Magnit Championship by three shots.[9] He then won the Albertsons Boise Open the week after and by the end of the season, he secured his PGA Tour Card for the next season by finishing 2nd on the points list.[10]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (10)

Japan Golf Tour wins (8)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Japan majors (2)[a]
Other Japan Golf Tour (6)
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 New Zealand Michael Hendry
2 Jul 9, 2017 Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup −18 (67-70-67-66=270) 1 stroke South Korea Hwang Jung-gon
3 Nov 5, 2017 Heiwa PGM Championship −6 (67-70-72-69=278) 1 stroke Japan Yuta Ikeda, South Korea Song Young-han
4 Oct 20, 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship +1 (74-69-75-67=285) 1 stroke Japan Mikumu Horikawa, South Africa Shaun Norris
5 Dec 6, 2020 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup −8 (66-66-73-67=272) 1 stroke Japan Hiroshi Iwata, Japan Tomoharu Otsuki,
Japan Hideto Tanihara
6 Oct 3, 2021 Vantelin Tokai Classic −14 (64-68-69-69=270) 2 strokes Japan Yuta Ikeda, Japan Jinichiro Kozuma,
Japan Tomoharu Otsuki
7 Nov 21, 2021 Dunlop Phoenix Tournament −17 (69-69-66-63=267) 1 stroke Japan Naoyuki Kataoka, Japan Ryosuke Kinoshita
8 Nov 27, 2022 Casio World Open −32 (64-66-64-62=256) 6 strokes Japan Aguri Iwasaki

Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

Legend
Finals events (1)
Other Korn Ferry Tour (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 Aug 20, 2023 Magnit Championship −20 (70-66-68-64=268) 3 strokes United States Taylor Dickson
2 Aug 27, 2023 Albertsons Boise Open −28 (66-62-64-64=256) 2 strokes United States David Kocher

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
  Did not play

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

  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship was also a Japan major championship.

References

  1. ^ "Week 52 2019 Ending 29 Dec 2019" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Kim wins Pacific Coast Amateur". Golfweek. August 1, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  5. ^ "Chan Kim captures his second Arizona Stroke Play Championship by four shots". Arizona Golfer News. May 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Chan Kim". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  7. ^ "Golf-Thai veteran Thaworn wins record 16th Asian Tour title". Reuters. September 15, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017.[dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Chan Kim wins Mizuno Open to qualify for Open Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  9. ^ "Chan Kim rallies to win Magnit Championship, moves into top 15 on Korn Ferry Tour Points List". PGA Tour. August 21, 2023. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
  10. ^ "Meet the 30 newest PGA Tour members, 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduates". PGA Tour. October 8, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  11. ^ "Hawaii State Amateur Past Champions" (PDF). Hawaii State Golf.