{"id":404049,"date":"2026-01-12T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:53:09","slug":"anthony-kim-seals-return-to-liv-golf-asian-tours-lee-hollgren-grab-other-2026-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404049\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Kim seals return to LIV Golf, Asian Tour\u2019s Lee, Hollgren grab other 2026 spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Kim is back for LIV Golf\u2019s 2026 season, and this time he has earned the right to be there.<\/p>\n

The former star took one of three places available in the final round of the league\u2019s promotions tournament in Florida on Sunday, with a closing one-under-par 69 enough for third on five under overall.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Richard T Lee continued his dominant week, shooting a 65 to win on 11 under, five shots clear of Sweden\u2019s Bjorn Hellgren, whose 64 matched Lee\u2019s course record at Black Diamond Ranch.<\/p>\n

The champion, who has three Asian Tour wins to his name and will be the first Canadian to play on the LIV tour, said the result had \u201cnot sunk in yet\u201d, but he thought more of his countrymen should follow him to the tour and \u201cmake a team\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kim, meanwhile, had been away from golf for more than a decade before LIV offered a way back with a wild card in 2024. The American showed brief flashes of his previous brilliance over those two years, but not enough to avoid relegation at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

\"LIVLIV Golf Promotions champion Richard T Lee (centre), flanked by Bjorn Hellgren (right) and Anthony Kim. Photo: LIV Golf<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were definitely low moments throughout those two years,\u201d Kim said. \u201cBut I believe in myself more than anybody else believes in me, and I think that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Kim is back for LIV Golf\u2019s 2026 season, and this time he has earned the right to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[51850,85521,120720,49,3335,48,6388,622,91958,6674,168097,82,7425,86236],"class_list":{"0":"post-404049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-anthony-kim","9":"tag-asian-tour","10":"tag-black-diamond-ranch","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-international-series","17":"tag-liv-golf","18":"tag-richard-t-lee","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sweden","21":"tag-wild-card"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}