{"id":343668,"date":"2025-12-12T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343668\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:20:10","slug":"pga-tour-star-si-woo-kim-confirms-liv-golf-move-is-now-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343668\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour star Si Woo Kim confirms LIV Golf move is now off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe rumor mill is whirring again, but one PGA Tour star\u2019s talks with LIV Golf have come to an end\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four hours is a long time in golf.<\/p>\n<p>With deals for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/pga-tour-star-victor-perez-to-join-cleeks-golf-club-ahead-of-2026-liv-golf-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Perez joining Cleeks Golf Club<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/laurie-canter-snubs-pga-tour-for-liv-golf-return-with-majesticks-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Canter\u2019s return to Majesticks GC<\/a> \u2013 in for the relegated Frederik Kjettrup and Henrik Stenson respectively \u2013 wrapped up, LIV Golf\u2019s bosses have set their sights on filling more holes left from those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/6-players-relegated-from-liv-golf-league-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finishing in this year\u2019s Drop Zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another of those players is Yubin Jang, who played on Kevin Na\u2019s Iron Heads GC alongside Danny Lee and Jinichiro Kozuma but ended the season 52nd out of 54 in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>And with LIV keen to base teams around a geographical identity, sources close to LIV told TG that Si Woo Kim was in \u201clate-stage talks\u201d with the league.<\/p>\n<p>While not quite Jon Rahm levels, Kim would be a good scoop for LIV \u2013 particularly as they continue to push focus on the Asian market. He has won four times on the PGA Tour \u2013 including the Players Championship in 2017 when, somewhat ironically, Louis Oosthuizen and Ian Poulter were runners-up \u2013 and played on three Presidents Cup teams.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old also made headlines at the 2023 Masters when he wore a PGA Tour-branded shirt while playing alongside Phil Mickelson.<\/p>\n<p>But the move is now off.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mk.co.kr\/en\/sports\/11489991\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maeil Business Newspaper<\/a> in Kim\u2019s homeland had initially reported that, while it\u2019s true that \u201clike many Korean players\u201d he had been in talks with LIV Golf, he has \u201cexpressed his intention to refuse and decided to remain on the PGA Tour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kim later confirmed talks were over when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSK9gLqleXH\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a photo of himself with his Sony Open trophy<\/a> from two years ago on Instagram with the caption: \u201cOK guys, see you in Hawaii.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Like Kim, two-time PGA Tour winner Sungjae Im was also subject to speculation when the pair applied for DP World Tour membership last month, though TG has been told by a member of Im\u2019s team that there is \u201czero truth\u201d in the rumors. The Maeil added that Im\u2019s management company said the 27-year-old is \u201cfocusing on preparing for the PGA Tour next season\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>TG has reached out to LIV Golf for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rumor mill is whirring again, but one PGA Tour star\u2019s talks with LIV Golf have come to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-343668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343668","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=343668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}