Anthony Kim posted a lengthy, revealing message to his Instagram page on Thursday. In it, he celebrated two years of sobriety and went into detail about his past drug use.
To be fair, there was nowhere to go but up. The 39-year-old hadn’t earned world-ranking points since a T-42 finish at the 2012 Honda Classic when he was still playing on the PGA Tour.
Kim posted a venom-fuelled diatribe on X/Twitter about NBC Sports commentator Brandel Chamblee, who has been one of the most outspoken critics about LIV and its financial backers from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Anthony Kim didn’t touch a club for seven years during his publicised absence from golf. He didn’t touch social media, either. In fact, he wasn’t on it until recently. He had no idea that online, his whereabouts had morphed from curiosity to bigfoot levels.
In a performance that was alternately confident and cautious, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke in front of the gathered media for the first time since last August at the Tour Championship.
It took six rounds back from a 12-year competitive hiatus, but Anthony Kim finally showed some glimpses of what made him a popular, young American star early in his career.
Anthony Kim’s comeback doesn’t officially start until Friday’s first round of the LIV Golf Jeddah event, but he hit his first shot with the cameras rolling on Thursday. And, well, it didn’t go as well as he’d like.
Citing multiple sources, Golf Channel reported on Saturday that 38-year-old Kim, who hasn’t played pro golf since 2012, will start in next week’s LIV Golf’s event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Because Kim – more specifically, the legend of Anthony Kim – is the closest thing professional golf’s had to a folk hero, his possible emergence has many a golf fan on social media salivating at the prospect.
Australian Golf Digest
