Chan Kim
| Chan Kim | |||||||
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| Personal information | |||||||
| Born | March 24, 1990 Suwon, South Korea | ||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st) | ||||||
| Sporting nationality | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States | ||||||
| Residence | Gilbert, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
| College | Arizona State University | ||||||
| Turned professional | 2010 | ||||||
| Current tour | PGA Tour | ||||||
| Former tours | Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour Korn Ferry Tour Challenge Tour Canadian Tour | ||||||
| Professional wins | 10 | ||||||
| Highest ranking | 61 (December 29, 2019)[1] (as of December 14, 2025) | ||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||
| Japan Golf Tour | 8 | ||||||
| Korn Ferry Tour | 2 | ||||||
| Best results in major championships | |||||||
| Masters Tournament | DNP | ||||||
| PGA Championship | T23: 2021 | ||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 | ||||||
| The Open Championship | T11: 2017 | ||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||
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Chan Kim (born March 24, 1990) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He formerly played on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won eight times, and the Korn Ferry Tour, where he won twice.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Kim was born in Suwon, South Korea, but grew up in Hawaii.[2]
Amateur career
[edit | edit source]Kim played his college golf at Arizona State University.[3]
He won the 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur.[4] He was also a two-time winner of the Arizona Stroke Play Championship.[5]
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Kim played on the Canadian Tour in 2011.[6] He played on the Challenge Tour in 2013 and the Asian Tour in 2013 and 2014.[6] In 2013, he was runner-up at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship.[7] He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2015.[6]
He won the Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour to earn a spot in the 2017 Open Championship. Earlier that week he earned a qualifying spot to the 2017 U.S. Open.[8] In early July, he won his second Japan Golf Tour event, the Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup, after a bogey-free final round of 66.
In August 2023, Kim won his first event on the Korn Ferry Tour, winning the Magnit Championship by three shots.[9] He then won the Albertsons Boise Open the week after and by the end of the season, he secured his PGA Tour Card for the next season by finishing 2nd on the points list.[10]
Amateur wins
[edit | edit source]- 2007 Hawaii Amateur[11]
- 2008 Arizona Stroke Play Championship, Thunderbird International
- 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur
- 2010 Arizona Stroke Play Championship
Professional wins (10)
[edit | edit source]Japan Golf Tour wins (8)
[edit | edit source]| Legend |
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| Flagship events (1) |
| Japan majors (2)[a] |
| Other Japan Golf Tour (6) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2017 | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | −15 (68-70-67-68=273) | 5 strokes | New Zealand Michael Hendry |
| 2 | Jul 9, 2017 | Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup | −18 (67-70-67-66=270) | 1 stroke | South Korea Hwang Jung-gon |
| 3 | Nov 5, 2017 | Heiwa PGM Championship | −6 (67-70-72-69=278) | 1 stroke | Japan Yuta Ikeda, South Korea Song Young-han |
| 4 | Oct 20, 2019 | Japan Open Golf Championship | +1 (74-69-75-67=285) | 1 stroke | Japan Mikumu Horikawa, South Africa Shaun Norris |
| 5 | Dec 6, 2020 | Golf Nippon Series JT Cup | −8 (66-66-73-67=272) | 1 stroke | Japan Hiroshi Iwata, Japan Tomoharu Otsuki, Japan Hideto Tanihara |
| 6 | Oct 3, 2021 | Vantelin Tokai Classic | −14 (64-68-69-69=270) | 2 strokes | Japan Yuta Ikeda, Japan Jinichiro Kozuma, Japan Tomoharu Otsuki |
| 7 | Nov 21, 2021 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −17 (69-69-66-63=267) | 1 stroke | Japan Naoyuki Kataoka, Japan Ryosuke Kinoshita |
| 8 | Nov 27, 2022 | Casio World Open | −32 (64-66-64-62=256) | 6 strokes | Japan Aguri Iwasaki |
Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)
[edit | edit source]| Legend |
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| Finals events (1) |
| Other Korn Ferry Tour (1) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 20, 2023 | Magnit Championship | −20 (70-66-68-64=268) | 3 strokes | United States Taylor Dickson |
| 2 | Aug 27, 2023 | Albertsons Boise Open | −28 (66-62-64-64=256) | 2 strokes | United States David Kocher |
Results in major championships
[edit | edit source]Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | ||
| U.S. Open | CUT | |
| The Open Championship | T11 | |
| PGA Championship |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | ||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T23 | CUT | |
| U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| The Open Championship | CUT | NT | T53 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Results in World Golf Championships
[edit | edit source]| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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| Championship | T35 | ||||
| Match Play | NT1 | ||||
| Invitational | |||||
| Champions | T58 | T46 | NT1 | NT1 |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
Results in The Players Championship
[edit | edit source]| Tournament | 2025 |
|---|---|
| The Players Championship | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ The 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship was also a Japan major championship.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Chan Kim at the European Tour official site
- Chan Kim at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Chan Kim at the PGA Tour official site
- Chan Kim at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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- American male golfers
- Arizona State Sun Devils men's golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- European Tour golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- Korn Ferry Tour graduates
- Golfers from Hawaii
- American people of Korean descent
- Sportspeople of Korean descent
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- Sportspeople from Suwon
- 1990 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American sportsmen