{"id":480578,"date":"2026-02-17T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:36:09","slug":"anthony-kim-wins-liv-golf-adelaide-in-remarkable-career-comeback-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480578\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Kim Wins LIV Golf Adelaide In Remarkable Career Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Anthony Kim won LIV Golf Adelaide on Sunday for his first victory in nearly 16 years, capping a remarkable career comeback with a closing 9-under 63 for a three-shot margin.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old American stepped away from competitive golf for 12 years amid drug and alcohol struggles, and needed to play a\u00a0qualifying tournament last month<\/a>\u00a0just to get another season on the LIV Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor it to actually happen is pretty insane,\u201d Kim said. \u201cI just want to thank all the people that have supported me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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. 12-15, 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 and enjoyed the support of the large crowds as he strolled up the 18th fairway.<\/p>\n

He missed 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, tied for the third-round lead with Bryson DeChambeau, was second after a 71.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to, to produce some good golf today and I knew it was coming,\u201d said Kim, a three-time PGA Tour winner whose best previous LIV finish was a tie for 25th. \u201cNobody else has to believe in me but me. And, for anybody that\u2019s struggling, you can get through anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim reached as high as No. 6 in the world in 2008 \u2014 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 Tyrell Hatton (67) and Peter Uihlein (68) at 17 under.<\/p>\n

The all-Australian Ripper team of Cam Smith, Lucas Herbert, Marc Leishman and\u00a0Elvis Smylie<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the Riyadh winner last week in his tour debut \u2014 won for the second straight week and also the second time at Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII squad was second, and Kim led the 4Aces to a third-place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Anthony Kim won LIV Golf Adelaide on Sunday for his first victory in nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-480578","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\/480578","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=480578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}