Anthony Kim is staying on LIV.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old Kim, who has spent each of the past two years competing as a wild-card player on the Saudi-backed circuit, retained his card with a third-place finish in the four-round LIV Promotions event, which wrapped up Sunday at Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Florida.<\/p>\n
Also earning cards were a pair of 35-year-olds, medalist Richard T. Lee of Canada (11 under) and Sweden\u2019s Bjorn Hellgren, who closed in 64 to end up at 6 under (scores were reset twice, after each of the first two rounds).<\/p>\n
Kim, who was exempt into the second round, shot 69 to make the second cut, then went 66-69 on the weekend to finish two shots clear of four players at T-4. On Sunday, he birdied three of five holes starting at No. 7, then added another at the par-5 16th, two holes after he canned an 18-foot par save at the par-4 14th.<\/p>\n
Lee was runner-up at the 2006 U.S. Junior when he was just 15 years old. He qualified for the U.S. Open the next year at Oakmont, only to withdraw mid-championship with a wrist injury. He turned pro the following week. He owns seven wins between the Asian and Korean tours.<\/p>\n
Hellgren was a teammate of Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger at Florida State before turning pro in 2013. He won last year\u2019s Saudi Open on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n
Kim, a three-time PGA Tour winner and former Ryder Cupper who stepped away from competitive golf for a dozen years, didn\u2019t crack the top 35 in 10 starts in his debut season with LIV. This past year, he was marginally better, posting one top-25 \u2013 a T-25 in Dallas \u2013 and finishing No. 55 in points, one spot better than in 2024.<\/p>\n
However, Kim did cap his year by tying for fifth at the PIF Saudi International, an Asian Tour event played last November. It was Kim\u2019s best finish since 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Kim is staying on LIV. The 40-year-old Kim, who has spent each of the past two years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-401904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}