Kris Kim simply made PGA Tour history.
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As if the likes of 20-somethings Ludvig Aberg, Tom Kim, Nick Dunlap and extra, arriving on the PGA Tour weren’t sufficient, a few high-schoolers are turning heads in professional golf proper now.
Last month, 15-year-old Miles Russell dazzled in a T20 end at the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, incomes him one other begin final week on the event Tour.
This week, the golf world is being launched to Kris Kim, the newest teenage golf phenomenon.
In his first-ever PGA Tour begin Kim at 16 years, 7 months and three days grew to become the fifth youngest participant to make the reduce on the PGA Tour after he opened the CJ Cup Byron Nelson with rounds of 68 and 67. He additionally breaks Jordan Spieth’s document for being the youngest participant to make the reduce at the Dallas occasion. Spieth was a couple of months older than Kim when he completed T16 at this occasion in 2010.
Kim can be the youngest participant to make the reduce on the PGA Tour since Kyle Suppa at the 2015 Sony Open. The youngest ever was Guan Tianlang, who was 14 when he made the cust at each the Masters and Zurich Classic in 2013.
On Saturday, the English newbie didn’t let his foot off the gasoline, making 4 birdies on his entrance 9 on his strategy to a third-round one-under 70, his third consecutive spherical beneath par to start out his PGA Tour profession.
Kim’s tee shot by no means left the flagstick on the 224-yard par-3 4th, almost leading to an ace and leaving his dad and mom starstruck. His mom is former LPGA Tour participant and South Korea native Ji-Hyun Suh.
“Them being there makes it that much better I think,” Kim mentioned of his dad and mom being right here this week. “Yeah, missing some school as well for my brother, but, yeah, other than that it’s still been good.”
His dad and mom aren’t the one ones impressed by the expertise of the excessive schooler. Kim has been the most important draw at a reasonably sleepy CJ Cup Byron Nelson with simply only some main names within the discipline.
After ending his third spherical Saturday, {the teenager} stayed behind to signal some autographs for followers solely a handful of years youthful than him.
“It’s been really cool. Makes it a little bit more fun playing with the crowds in my opinion,” Kim mentioned. “Yeah, it was just such a good experience today.”
