After playoff loss to Ben An, Tom Kim broke a locker at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea

Tom Kim’s vexation seems to person boiled complete Sunday following a playoff nonaccomplishment to Ben An astatine nan DP World Tour’s Genesis Championship successful his autochthonal South Korea.

Kim, a week aft missing nan trim astatine nan Shriners Children’s Open, wherever he was nan two-time defending champion, had a putt connected nan 72nd spread to triumph nan event, but it lipped out, and he and chap International Presidents Cup prima Ben An marched to a playoff.

In said playoff, An made a birdie, and a correction connected Kim’s attack changeable into nan par-5 greenish resulted successful a bogey, giving An his first triumph successful 9 years.

That’s when, according to Korean news outlet Yonhap, Kim retreated to nan locker room, wherever his vexation was taken retired connected a locker door, breaking it.

🚨😬🇰🇷 #PHOTO — After losing nan Genesis Championship successful a playoff yesterday, frustrations boiled complete for Tim Kim, breaking a locker room door. Kim apologized to nan KPGA and has offered to salary for nan harm but disciplinary action is besides being considered, per @YonhapNews pic.twitter.com/nJvQVQLgX4

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) October 28, 2024

The Korean PGA Tour, which co-sanctioned nan event, plans to salary Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea for nan harm advertisement will inquire Kim to screen those costs. They are besides considering options for disciplinary proceedings against Kim, per nan report.

Kim won nan KPGA’s Player of nan Year grant successful 2021, besides having nan highest net and lowest scoring mean that year. In 2022 is erstwhile he collapsed retired connected nan PGA Tour, winning nan Wyndham Championship and past nan Shriners Children’s Open successful a span of 3 months.

2024 has been a frustrating twelvemonth for Kim, and his affectional consequence Sunday showed that.