Chan Kim

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Chan Kim
Personal information
Born (1990-03-24) March 24, 1990 (age 31)
Suwon, South Korea
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st)
Nationality United States
Career
CollegeArizona State University
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Former tour(s)Asian Tour
Challenge Tour
Canadian Tour
Professional wins5
Highest ranking61 (December 29, 2019)[1]
(as of September 5, 2021)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour5
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT23: 2021
U.S. OpenCUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
The Open ChampionshipT11: 2017

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[]

  • 2008 Arizona Stroke Play Championship, Thunderbird International
  • 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur
  • 2010 Arizona Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (5)[]

Japan Golf Tour wins (5)[]

Legend
Japan Opens (1)
Japan majors (2)
Other Japan Golf Tour (3)
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 , 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 ,
Japan Hideto Tanihara

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
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship CUT T23
U.S. Open CUT CUT CUT
The Open Championship CUT NT T53
  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

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. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  8. ^ "Chan Kim wins Mizuno Open to qualify for Open Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.

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