Michael Kim has gone from outside the 150 money to masters in eight weeks.
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Eight weeks ago, Michael Kim arrived at WM Phoenix Open Fresh off a lost cut at Farmers Insurance Open that knocked it out of the 150s on the official Golf rankings.
What he has displayed as it is a career revival. Kim has played in eight straight events, carding six consecutive Top-13 conclusions, including a T2 in Phoenix and a fourth place finish at Arnold Palmer Invitational. After seven consecutive tournaments, Kim appeared in Houston of children in Texas Open Sorted no. 52 in the world, only a handful of points away from a master invitation before cutting the top-50.
Kim and Ben Griffin (Sorted No. 53) both made the cut in Memorial and extinguished back and forth in OWGR unofficial predictions throughout the weekend. Griffin shot one Sunday 65 to make a late run in the Kim jump to enter within 50 cannons. But a brief blow of the bird lost in the penultimate hole of Griffin (par-5 8) proved the change after Kim marked a T32 conclusion on the ground at no. 50 on the interruption day. Griffin ended in no. 51.
For Owgr Guru Nosphere, if Griffin would make 5-legged, 3-inch bird putt, he and Kim would have rolled stains.
Kim directed his impossible run to masters at home on Sunday, despite fighting massive nerves while playing with a cracked head in his Titileist GT2 driver
“I made some quite nerve shakes in the nine back there thinking of it,” Kim said after his round. “My driver was struck, I don’t know exactly what hole, but she was cracking and I was trying to get a replacement at 18, but the official rules took a long time, so I just hit her anyway.”
Daniel Berger, JJ Spaun, Laurie Canter and Stephan Jaeger also ended up within 50 money on Sunday to mark their tickets in the first part of the year.
On Monday, Kim shared his thoughts on Twitter week and explained that he had also hit his T200 4 title at the beginning of the week, but he was able to get a replacement.
Kim’s accusation of his second career masters is a story of golf perseverance and bitterness-to find his game in a timely manner and making sure he did not lose the spark.
