Kim Si-woo
Personal information
Born (1995-06-28) 28 June 1995 (age 28)
Seoul, South Korea
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight182 lb (83 kg; 13.0 st)
Sporting nationality South Korea
Spouse
Oh Ji-hyun
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(m. 2022)​
Career
CollegeYonsei University
Turned professional2012
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)European Tour
Web.com Tour
Professional wins5
Highest ranking28 (14 May 2017)[1]
(as of 4 February 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour4
Korn Ferry Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT12: 2021
PGA ChampionshipT13: 2020
U.S. OpenT13: 2017
The Open ChampionshipT15: 2022
Medal record
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Men's team

Kim Si-woo (Korean: 김시우; born 28 June 1995), also known as Si Woo Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2017 Players Championship to become the youngest ever winner of the event at age 21.[2]

Professional career

Kim finished tied for 20th at the 2012 PGA Tour Qualifying School. He was only 17 years, 5 months, 6 days old at the time, the youngest player to graduate from the PGA Tour's qualifying school.[3] Due to PGA Tour rules, he could not become a PGA Tour member until he turned 18, midway through the 2013 season. In eight PGA Tour starts in 2013, Kim missed the cut in seven tournaments and withdrew from the eighth.[4] He also played in seven Web.com Tour events in 2013, making four cuts.

Kim played on the Web.com Tour in 2014, making 15 of 19 cuts including a third-place finish at the Cleveland Open. In 2015, he won his first Web.com Tour event, the Stonebrae Classic, in July.[5] He was the second-youngest winner in Web.com Tour history, after Jason Day. He finished 2015 in tenth place in the Web.com Tour money list,[6] to earn a place on the PGA Tour for 2016.

His first win on the PGA Tour came at the 2016 Wyndham Championship.[7] At 21, he was the season's youngest winner. His second win on the PGA Tour came at the 2017 Players Championship, beating Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen by three-shots with a bogey-free 69 in his final round, becoming the second Korean to win the title after K. J. Choi in 2011.[8] Ranked 73rd in the world prior to the Players Championship, Kim was the second-lowest ranked player to win the tournament, with 2002 winner Craig Perks ranked outside 200th before his win. Kim moved up to 28th in the world after the win.

Kim lost in a sudden-death playoff at the 2018 RBC Heritage in April. He had held the sole lead for large portions of the final round, but shot three over on the back nine, missing a series of makeable putts, including at the last to win the tournament outright, to fall into a playoff. He lost on the third extra hole of the playoff, when Satoshi Kodaira holed a lengthy birdie putt on the par-3 17th.

In January 2021, Kim won The American Express in La Quinta, California. Kim shot a final round 8-under 64 to win by one stroke over Patrick Cantlay and claim his third PGA Tour title. In August later that year, Kim tied for the lead with five other players after 72 holes at the Wyndham Championship. Kevin Kisner took the title in the playoff.[9]

In September 2022, Kim was selected for the International team in the 2022 Presidents Cup; he won three and lost one of the four matches he played.[10]

In January 2023, Kim won the Sony Open in Hawaii. He birdied the final two holes to win by one shot over Hayden Buckley. It was his fourth PGA Tour victory.[11]

Professional wins (5)

PGA Tour wins (4)

Legend
Players Championships (1)
Other PGA Tour (3)
No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 21 Aug 2016 Wyndham Championship 68-60-64-67=259 −21 5 strokes England Luke Donald
2 14 May 2017 The Players Championship 69-72-68-69=278 −10 3 strokes South Africa Louis Oosthuizen, England Ian Poulter
3 24 Jan 2021 The American Express 66-68-67-64=265 −23 1 stroke United States Patrick Cantlay
4 15 Jan 2023 Sony Open in Hawaii 67-67-64-64=262 −18 1 stroke United States Hayden Buckley

PGA Tour playoff record (0–3)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2016 Barbasol Championship Australia Aaron Baddeley Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole
2 2018 RBC Heritage Japan Satoshi Kodaira Lost to birdie on third extra hole
3 2021 Wyndham Championship South Africa Branden Grace, United States Kevin Kisner,
United States Kevin Na, Australia Adam Scott
Canada Roger Sloan 		Kisner won with birdie on second extra hole

Web.com Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 19 Jul 2015 Stonebrae Classic 66-65-69-68=268 −12 Playoff United States Jamie Lovemark, United States Wes Roach

Web.com Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2015 Stonebrae Classic United States Jamie Lovemark, United States Wes Roach Won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2016 2017 2018
Masters Tournament CUT T24
U.S. Open T13 CUT
The Open Championship CUT T67
PGA Championship CUT WD CUT
Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Masters Tournament T21 T34 T12 T39 T29
PGA Championship CUT T13 CUT T60 CUT
U.S. Open CUT CUT T40 CUT T39
The Open Championship CUT NT T15 CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 6
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 2
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 3
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 6 27 13

The Players Championship

Wins (1)

Year Championship 54 holes Winning score Margin Runners-up
2017 The Players Championship 2 shot deficit −10 (69-72-68-69=278) 3 strokes South Africa Louis Oosthuizen, England Ian Poulter

Results timeline

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
The Players Championship T23 1 T63 T56 C T9 WD T27
  Win
  Top 10

"T" indicates a tie for a place
WD = withdrew
C = Cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Championship T72
Match Play T30 R16 T61 NT1 T56 T18 T17
Invitational T50 T10 65
Champions T63 T69 NT1 NT1 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References

  1. ^ "Week 19 2017 Ending 14 May 2017" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  2. ^ "New Kim on the block". The New Paper. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Si Woo Kim – Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Si Woo Kim – Season". PGA Tour. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Si Woo Kim wins Web.com Tour's Stonebrae Classic in playoff". ESPN. Associated Press. 20 July 2015.
  6. ^ "2015 Web.com Tour Regular Season Money List". PGA Tour. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Si Woo Kim ties Wyndham scoring mark, claims first PGA Tour title". ESPN. Associated Press. 22 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Players Championship: Kim Si-woo holds off Ian Poulter to become youngest winner". BBC Sport. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  9. ^ Kelly, Todd (15 August 2021). "Kevin Kisner wins Wyndham Championship after six-way playoff". MSN.
  10. ^ Beall, Joel (25 September 2022). "Presidents Cup 2022: Our grades for all 24 players, from an A+ for Spieth to an F for Scheffler". Golf Digest. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  11. ^ "PGA Tour: Si Woo Kim wins Sony Open in Hawaii with two late birdies; England's Ben Taylor finishes fourth". Sky Sports. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

External links

Players Championship champions
Kim Si-woo in the Presidents Cup
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