{"id":722383,"date":"2026-06-08T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722383\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:20:15","slug":"kim-si-woo-reaches-career-best-no-18-in-world-golf-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722383\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Si-woo reaches career-best No. 18 in world golf rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d2bff4fe-8aed-44d9-aa51-a36417dc6d7b.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"Kim Si-woo of Korea tees off on the second hole during the second round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, Friday (local time). AFP-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kim Si-woo of Korea tees off on the second hole during the second round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, Friday (local time). AFP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim Si-woo has reached his new career-best No. 18 in the men&#8217;s world golf rankings on the strength of his latest top-10 finish on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim moved up a spot to No. 18 in the latest rankings announced following the conclusion of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on Sunday (local time).<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim shot a six-under 66 in the final round to finish tied for 10th at five-under 283. It was Kim&#8217;s eighth top-10 finish of the year. Kim recorded five birdies, one eagle and one bogey in the final round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim has made the cut at all 16 tournaments he has played this year. The four-time tour winner is seeking his first victory since January 2023, and he has been knocking on the door in 2026, with two runner-up finishes and two third-place showings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim ended the 2025 season ranked 47th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Kim also went up from fifth to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings. He is the only player inside the top five without a win in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In other categories, Kim is sixth in scoring average (70.063) and seventh in money ($6,575,361).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Si-woo of Korea tees off on the second hole during the second round of the Memorial Tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-722383","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\/722383","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=722383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}