The legend of Anthony Kim appears headed for one more chapter.
The brash and standard golf star is about to return to the skilled ranks after leaving the PGA Tour round 12 years in the past, Golf.com was first to report.
Kim has been negotiating with the PGA Tour and LIV Golf over the previous a number of months with subsequent steps being mentioned as he eyes a return this spring.
One of many holdups for Kim, 38, is {that a} $10 million insurance coverage coverage might be voided as soon as he returns.
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LIV Golf — after initially displaying little curiosity in Kim — has supplied him one-year contract that might cowl the $10 million and nonetheless permit him to earn prize cash and money in on sponsorships.
LIV’s stance on Kim modified due to the urging of a few of its high gamers, together with Dustin Johnson, Golf.com reported.
Kim broke onto the tour in 2006 after which received three tournaments between 2008-10 as he rose as excessive as No. 6 on the earth.
Kim, whereas a divisive determine amongst fellow execs, was a key a part of US groups that received the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup in 2008 and 2009. He nonetheless owns the file for many birdies in a Masters spherical, when he carded 11 through the second spherical at Augusta in 2009.
He was briefly a popular culture icon with an look on “The Tonight Present” and a friendship with Michael Jordan.
Kim then underwent Achilles surgical procedure in June 2012 that was anticipated to sideline him for a yr.
Nonetheless, there have solely been uncommon sights of him since with reviews surfacing that he had given up the sport totally.
Eric Larson, Kim’s caddie from his skilled days, instructed the New York Instances in a characteristic final yr, that he talked with Kim about LIV Golf and tried utilizing the brand new tour as a technique to persuade him to get again within the recreation.
“He goes, ‘I don’t know. I actually don’t know.’” Larson instructed the paper.
“I stated, ‘Come on, man, get the outdated golf equipment out. Go on the market and have some enjoyable.’ And he begins laughing at me. He goes, ‘That’s what everyone desires me to do!’”
Golf.com reported has been taking part in extra ceaselessly forward of his return, prepared to offer what “everyone desires.”
This text first appeared on The New York Publishand was reproduced with permission