TULSA, OKLAHOMA - MAY 21: Tiger Woods of the United States plays his shot from the tenth tee during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on May 21, 2022 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Welcome to the Monday Leaderboard, where we run down the weekend’s beat stories within the superb world of golf. Get an Arnold Palmer, drag up a chair, and think about what you’d do along with your time on the off chance that you took 11 a long time off from your work …
In the event that you weren’t stopped into the golf world for an awfully brief, particular cut of time between approximately 2008 and 2012, you might have missed the legend of Anthony Kim, a cheerful, smiling wizard who brought a party-bro vitality to a don soiled in Tiger Woods revere. Kim arrived right as the Woods air was collapsing much obliged to Woods’ claim wounds and thoughtless activities.
Anthony Kim presaged the period of Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Brooks Koepka, post-Tiger players who brought youth and fire to a customarily khaki amusement. Kim had abilities; he won three PGA Visit occasions, and still holds the record for most birdies in a circular at the Experts, with 11. But wounds heaped up, and after he cracked his Achilles in 2012, he vanished from the diversion … and we do cruel vanished.
Kim supposedly had a $10 million protections arrangement that would void on the off chance that he played proficient golf once more, so he got to be golf’s Bigfoot — showing up only in impressions each few a long time. Rumors endured that one day he would return … and clearly, that day is now here.
The one put a previous star seem go to induce the identical of a $10 million policy is, of course, LIV Golf … and it’s there that Kim is allegedly set to play another, beginning this end of the week in Saudi Arabia. For Kim, it’s a no-lose suggestion; there’s no cut in LIV Golf, no hazard of falling flat to bring domestic a check. In the event that he plays well sufficient, he seem gain his way onto an existing LIV group … and set himself up for a PGA Visit return at whatever point the sport’s two warring goliaths make peace.
As energized as golf fans are for a Kim return, there’s this.
