{"id":419207,"date":"2026-01-19T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:02:08","slug":"liv-golf-2026-new-player-analysis-minkyu-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419207\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf 2026 New Player Analysis: Minkyu Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIV Golf has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/minkyu-kim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minkyu Kim<\/a> will be joining the brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/korean-golf-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Korean Golf Club<\/a> for the 2026 season, joining captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/byeong-hun-an\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Byeong Hun An<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PLAYER BIO\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Age:\u00a024\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationality:\u00a0South Korean\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OWGR:\u00a0352nd\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Data Golf Ranking:\u00a0Unranked<\/p>\n<p>Career Wins: 7 (Asian Tour: 2022 and 2024 Kolon Korea Open; Challenge Tour: 2018 D+D Real Czech Challenge; Korean Tour: 2024 Descente Korea Munsingwear Matchplay; PGA EuroPro Tour: 2017 Pentahotels Championship, 2017 FORE Business Championship; Jamega Pro Golf Tour: 2017 Windmill Hill Classic).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Career Highlights:\u00a0Kim turned pro in early 2017 and quickly made his mark by winning multiple events on developmental tours. He claimed two titles on the PGA\u00a0EuroPro\u00a0Tour in successive weeks (Pentahotels\u00a0Championship and FORE Business Championship) and finished second on the Order of Merit, earning promotion to the Challenge Tour. In 2018, at just 17 years and\u00a064 days\u00a0old, he became the youngest winner in Challenge Tour history by capturing the D+D Real Czech Challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best Major Finish:\u00a0T31 at the 2024 Open Championship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2025 Results: Kim posted eight top-20 finishes across the Asian Tour, Korean Tour and the DP World Tour, with two runners-up finishes on the Korean Tour. His best finish on the DP World Tour was a T8 at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major Eligibility in 2026:\u00a0As of January 2026,\u00a0Kim\u00a0is not exempt into any major championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2025 RANKS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No statistics available across DP World Tour, Asian Tour and Korean Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf has announced that Minkyu Kim will be joining the brand-new Korean Golf Club for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-419207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419207","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=419207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}