Tom Kim had a wild start in his third round in 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am.
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Heading to Saturday’s third round at 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AMTom Kim was looking at the lead. But an embarrassing opening was shot almost as he threw his hopes. READY
Tour Popular Pro Started round 3 -fourth shots after 36 holes leader Sepp Straka. Starting from The first pebble hole par-4Kim knew that a fast bird could build momentum for the rest of the round.
He took his bird well. But he did this in one of the most impossible ways, at least for a pro -golf player.
With 1 playing 382 yards with a right dogleg, Kim let his driver rest and pulled a road tree in the country. Now, the wind was bad on Saturday, and many players were playing knackdown shots. Kim may even have intended to hit a hard kick in 1. But he definitely did not intend for his ball to fly just as low (or short) as it happened.
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As the video of the shoot shows, Kim took a large pace with his road road, but made poor contact, with the ball that hit the top of the club. Kim’s ball flew from the face and tore Fairway at an extremely low height, never more than a few meters away from Earth. You can call it a top, or a skull, or a duff. But whatever you call it, it was a shocking blow coming out of the high pro -club.
The immediate reaction of Golf Channel TV Anaylsts told the whole story.
“This turned low or not?”
“He certainly did it. Not what he predicted. ”
“I thought my eyes were cheating on me. Can you say it was a shot at the top? “
“Ehhh this wasn’t what you were planning, no. They are laughing about it now.”
Given his trajectory, Kim’s ball rotated a long road down the road, finally setting 215 yards from Tee, According to pgatour.com.
Despite the unfortunate goal, Kim still had only about 165 yards left in green. But when his intention of approach lost his left green and settled in harsh, a bird seemed everything, but impossible. At that point, Saving par was the goal.
But no one told Kim. He took a high wedge and made a semi-roofing kick, sending his top ball and seeing it descend only a few meters to the placement surface, then track directly into the hole and throw into the cup.
You can see both shootings below.
Birdie impossible shifted Kim to 11 under the day, winning him the hot start he was looking for. In the end, he finished the day on the 14th under and will start the last round two blows after the leader now 54 Straka holes.
