{"id":688979,"date":"2026-07-13T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:04:16","slug":"tom-kim-surges-to-scottish-open-victory-for-his-first-title-in-1001-days-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688979\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Kim surges to Scottish Open victory for his first title in 1,001 days | Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Kim produced a bogey-free final round to win at the Scottish Open on Sunday. The 24-year-old South Korean became a Rolex Series winner for the first time and picked up a victory for the first time in 1,001 days.<\/p>\n

Kim was in fine form at the Renaissance Club with an impressive final round of 64 to put his name at the top of the leaderboard and two shots in front of Min Woo Lee in \u00adsecond. Kim also finished four shots ahead of \u00adEngland\u2019s Matt Fitzpatrick and \u00adScotland\u2019s \u00adRobert MacIntyre, who had a share of third with Johnny Keefer and Keita Nakajima.<\/p>\n

It was Kim\u2019s fourth title on the PGA\u00a0Tour, having won the Shriners Children\u2019s Open in both 2022 and 2023 and the 2022 Wyndham Championship, and is now guaranteed a spot at the 2027 Masters.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick and MacIntyre shared the lead coming into the final day but both finished with a one-under par 69 which was not enough for the pair of them to hold on.<\/p>\n

Kim birdied three times on the front nine to put himself in contention and tightened his grip with another trio of birdies on the back nine, including one on the 16th which gave him a two-shot lead going into the final two holes.<\/p>\n

Lee missed a birdie putt on the 17th which essentially handed Kim the title, and a simple par putt on the 18th ensured he was the winner.<\/p>\n

Still, there \u200bwere reasons for Lee to be satisfied. \u201cI\u2019m just happy with the \u200cweek and obviously a win would \u200chave been nice,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was one of the first weeks that I was just happy with myself mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy showed positive signs before the Open \u00adChampionship at Royal Birkdale next week, slotting five birdies in his first seven holes to propel him up the leaderboard, in a final-day 64 that matched his \u00adlowest of the season, finishing \u00adtied for \u00adseventh with Michael Thorbjornsen.<\/p>\n

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After securing victory, Kim said on Sky Sports: \u201cThis one is up there. I played probably as good as I could have with the pressure and executed when I needed to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very proud for being calm out there. This is awesome. There were a lot of key moments. I am trying to get better each day. I\u2019ve had a tough couple of years and I got to taste a lot of humble pie and learn about myself. I\u2019ve still got a long way to go but I wanted to dedicate this to the people in my corner all the time. To all those people I\u2019d like to say\u00a0thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Kim produced a bogey-free final round to win at the Scottish Open on Sunday. The 24-year-old South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}