As professional athletes, tour ambassadors and role models for thousands of kids, PGA Tour pros are prohibited from drinking alcohol on the clock. According to nine-year tour veteran Michael Kim, however, some have been known to bend the rules.
For Kim, the Farmers Insurance is a homecoming having gone to high school in the San Diego area. But whoever put this week’s notes together missed that – and Michael wasn’t too pleased about it.
Michael Kim has become a must-follow on Golf Twitter/X with his PGA Tour tales, swing advice, and other great – and fun – insights. But earlier this week he offered his followers something even better: free golf lessons.
It happens every year at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. PGA Tour players meet and interact with kids who are sometimes suffering grave or debilitating illnesses. This year, for the first time, the young girls among that group will see someone who most resembles them.
If you needed more proof that the US PGA Tour is as deep as it has ever been, Michael Kim provided it on Sunday at the John Deere Classic, winning in dominant fashion despite having missed five of his last six cuts entering the week.