The 40-year-old American stepped away from competitive golf for 12 years when he struggled with drug and alcohol use. He needed to play a qualifying tournament last month just to get another season on the LIV Tour.<\/p>\n
“For it to actually happen is pretty insane,” Kim said. “I just want to thank all the people that have supported me.”<\/p>\n
Editor’s Picks Playing in shorts in front of a large crowd on a sunny day at The Grange Golf Club, Kim made four straight birdies on Nos. 12 through 15, holing putts of 17, 11, 14 and 17 feet.<\/p>\n He ran in a 15-footer on the par-4 17th to take the three-stroke lead to the last hole and enjoyed the support of the large crowds as he strolled up the 18th fairway.<\/p>\n He missed a 20-foot birdie attempt to fall a stroke short of the course record, tapping in for par to complete his first victory since the 2010 Houston Open.<\/p>\n Kim finished at 23 under. Jon Rahm<\/a>, tied for the third-round lead with Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, was second after a 71.<\/p>\n “I was able to produce some good golf today, and I knew it was coming,” said Kim, a three-time PGA Tour winner whose best previous LIV finish was a tie for 25th. “Nobody else has to believe in me but me. And, for anybody that’s struggling, you can get through anything.”<\/p>\n Kim reached as high as No. 6 in the world in 2008 — the year he played on a winning U.S. Ryder Cup team. He played six times on the Asian Tour last year and made four cuts, ending with a tie for fifth in the Saudi International.<\/p>\n DeChambeau had a 74 to tie for third with Tyrrell Hatton<\/a> (67) and Peter Uihlein<\/a> (68) at 17 under.<\/p>\n The all-Australian Ripper team of Cameron Smith<\/a>, Lucas Herbert<\/a>, Marc Leishman<\/a> and Elvis Smylie<\/a> — the Riyadh winner last week in his tour debut — won for the second straight week and also the second time at Adelaide.<\/p>\n Rahm’s Legion XIII squad was second, and Kim led the 4Aces to a third-place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 15, 2026, 02:38 AM ET ADELAIDE, Australia — Anthony Kim won LIV Golf Adelaide on Sunday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-476400","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\/476400","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=476400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1313745_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAnthony Kim scored a three-shot win at LIV Golf Adelaide to claim his first victory since the 2010 Houston Open.\u00a0Photo by Mark Brake\/Getty Images<\/p>\n