{"id":342741,"date":"2025-12-12T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:32:11","slug":"sungjae-ims-caddie-had-the-best-reaction-to-those-false-liv-golf-rumours-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342741\/","title":{"rendered":"Sungjae Im&#8217;s caddie had the best reaction to those false LIV Golf rumours \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to the rumours swirling around Golf Twitter on Wednesday, Sungjae Im is NOT leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>Whether fellow Korean Si Woo Kim is joining the Saudi-backed league remains a question. In part because Kim\u2019s caddie hasn\u2019t tweeted something funny indicating a move either way.<\/p>\n<p>But Im\u2019s caddie, Willy Wilcox, a Golf Twitter favourite, did go that route to help clear things up. Soon after rumours began circulating that his boss was making the move, reports started trickling out this was not the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/sungjae-im-announces-completion-of-military-training-without-any-injuries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Sungjae Im announces completion of military training<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then Willy jumped into the fray with this hilarious tweet that both cleared up and mocked the situation:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This just in.. Sung Jae signs deal with NASA to play in new space tour with events on mars and neptune<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Willy Wilcox (@willwilcoxgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willwilcoxgolf\/status\/1998816066764513387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well played, Willy. But he wasn\u2019t done having fun with this!<\/p>\n<p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">NASA Golf Ture <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wpWf5xntk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7wpWf5xntk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Willy Wilcox (@willwilcoxgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willwilcoxgolf\/status\/1998897182364303711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sungjae looks even better in a spacesuit than he did recently in his military uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Sungjae also officially refuted the initial report on social media as well. Just with not as much flair as his caddie:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/251211-sungjae-response.png.rend.hgtvcom.966.1449.suffix\/1765463469982.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/251211-sungjae-response.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In any event, it certainly looks like Sungjae Im and Willy Wilcox will be taking keeping their talents on the PGA Tour next season.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contrary to the rumours swirling around Golf Twitter on Wednesday, Sungjae Im is NOT leaving the PGA Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,80269,755,138747,12440,14239,44,1747,181497,85,34909,76226,13323,190086],"class_list":{"0":"post-342741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-caddie","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-golf-digest","14":"tag-korean","15":"tag-liv-golf","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pga-tour","18":"tag-si-woo-kim","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sungjae-im","21":"tag-the-loop","22":"tag-twitter","23":"tag-willy-wilcox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}