{"id":515958,"date":"2026-03-03T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:26:20","slug":"from-flat-out-terrible-to-liv-golf-champion-anthony-kim-says-his-best-is-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515958\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018flat-out terrible\u2019 to LIV Golf champion, Anthony Kim says his best is yet to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthony Kim joined LIV two years ago and by his own admission \u201cwas flat-out terrible\u201d, now after winning in Adelaide he believes his best golf is in front of him.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Victory at the league\u2019s second tournament of the year, where he fired a final round of nine-under-par to beat Jon Rahm by three shots, was not just notable for the emotion it elicited from across the sport, but also because it was so unexpected.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The American, who had been a wild card until joining Dustin Johnson\u2019s 4Aces ahead of the event in Adelaide, needed to come through the promotions event last year just to earn another shot in the league.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And a tie for 22nd at the season-opener in Riyadh did little to hint at the performance in Australia. But he comes into LIV Golf Hong Kong this week carrying the \u201cfamiliar and unfamiliar\u201d feeling of being a champion for the first time in almost 16 years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI don\u2019t think there was a moment where I started to think, I\u2019m playing better than I was before,\u201d Kim told reporters at Hong Kong Golf Club on Tuesday. \u201cBut I think not worrying about the results and just trying to get better every day, that process clicked at some point. I don\u2019t know when that was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Kim (left) earned a spot at the LIV Golf Promotions event alongside Richard T. Lee and Bjorn Hellgren. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d4cba8ff-2028-4dc6-a806-9c9de87ca68e_b13d5eb9.jpg\" title=\"Anthony Kim (left) earned a spot at the LIV Golf Promotions event alongside Richard T. Lee and Bjorn Hellgren. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Anthony Kim (left) earned a spot at the LIV Golf Promotions event alongside Richard T. Lee and Bjorn Hellgren. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The last of Kim\u2019s three PGA Tour titles as the Shell Houston Open in 2010, and his most recent triumph was met with congratulations from across golf and with many hailing it as one of sport\u2019s great comeback stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Kim joined LIV two years ago and by his own admission \u201cwas flat-out terrible\u201d, now after winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[257967,3443,214980,64,63,15120,6927,117510,257970,755,257969,257966,15811,257968,1747,198637,85,3725],"class_list":["post-515958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-4aces","tag-adelaide","tag-anthony-kim","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bella","tag-dustin-johnson","tag-emily","tag-fireball-gc","tag-golf","tag-hong-kong-golf-club","tag-houston-shell-open","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf-hong-kong","tag-pga-tour","tag-ripper-gc","tag-sports","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515958","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=515958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}