Michael Kim has to tackle India tournament course blind after visa issues

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[Photo: Stuart Franklin]

So much has gone well for Michael Kim this season, you figure there has to be a few hiccups.

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Kim, who won the FedEx Open de France in September, is back for another DP World Tour start this week at the India Championship in New Delhi, but he’ll compete with zero practise on the course. The 32-year-old Californian ran into visa issues after playing in last week’s PGA Tour Baycurrent Classic in Japan, and the popular social media poster kept his fans updated on his travails.

“Luckily I think it’s going to work out and headed to India now,” Kim posted on X. “No practise at all, have to go in blind. Let’s see how it turns out haha.”

At one point, he asked followers for some help in analysing this week’s tournament site—the highly exclusive Delhi Golf Club. Predictably, he got answers both earnest and idiotic.

https://twitter.com/Mike_kim714/status/1978268141944750136

In true Kim fashion, he later offered, “Technically, this was another delay so why not fire up a Q&A from the plane! WiFi isn’t great but will answer some questions.”

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Kim said he was set to arrive in India only 15 hours before his tee time and it was confirmed the golfer was on the ground when he posted this wry observation with a crying laughing emoji: “Driving lanes here are merely suggestions”

Kim is coming off a 2025 PGA Tour season in which he posted four top-10s, seven top-25s and rose to a career-high 38th in the Official World Golf after he won last month in France. His first DP World victory was his first win of any kind since his lone triumph on the PGA Tour in the 2018 John Deere Classic. Kim finished 10th in the FedEx Cup Playoffs penultimate event, the BMW Championship, back in August, and in his first start of the FedEx Fall [autumn series] slate last week, he tied for 56th.