Twelve months in the past Kris Kim was a recent confronted 16-year-old.
Regardless of. When confronted with a debut on the PGA Tour in THE CJ CUP at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas, the English newbie star not solely grew to become the fifth youngest-ever participant to make a PGA Tour minimize, he additionally very almost made an ace within the third spherical.
This week, as a 17-year-old veteran, he’ll return to the occasion seeking to repeat the joy and he’ll achieve this having turn out to be the Wentworth Membership’s first-ever elite scholar.
It’s the newest thrilling episode for a young person who first burst onto the worldwide scene when successful three-and-a-half factors from 4 matches within the 2023 Junior Ryder Cup.
He has the Wentworth Basis to thank for the newest alternative which can grant him entry to the three celebrated programs on the membership in addition to all the observe amenities together with the newly opened state-of-the-art Wentworth Golf Academy.
“I used to be so completely happy once I discovered concerning the scholarship,” mentioned Kim. “The concept of practising and taking part in at Wentworth day-after-day is so cool. I need to take my sport to the subsequent degree and Wentworth is the place for me to attain that. I’m very excited and really grateful to everybody on the membership for making it occur.”
Stuart Boyle, the Membership supervisor, explains that this 12 months’s Membership Captain, Brady Rafuse, wished the Basis to be his charity of selection and added: “We additionally wished to introduce an elite degree to the present programme, one which made the many of the three programs, the sensational observe amenities and our fantastic new Wentworth Golf Academy.
“I’ve travelled to most golf academies around the globe and Wentworth’s is one of the best I’ve seen.
Big potential
“We all know Kris has big potential. He’s a stunning lad and really mature for his age. He’s performed on the PGA Tour, he is aware of what he’s doing. He ticks plenty of bins.
“Wentworth can strengthen his sport and we’d like to see a younger golfer play within the BMW PGA Championship with the Wentworth Basis brand on his bag. That might be a beautiful journey and we’d be proud to be part of it.”
Wentworth additionally has a TaylorMade Efficiency Lab which can additional improve Kim’s expertise as a result of he was the primary British newbie golfer to signal a NIL (title, picture and likeness) contract with the model.
Mark Thistleton, TaylorMade’s DP World Tour Director, says: “The Wentworth Basis’s help and improvement of future expertise resembling Kris is a extremely optimistic step.
“In addition to the amenities, he can be surrounded by a help community, together with TaylorMade, that can provide him each alternative to turn out to be a world class {golfing} athlete.”
Kim made the journey to THE CJ CUP final 12 months whereas in the course of his GCSE revision. So how did he do within the exams? “I did all proper with my outcomes aside from Spiritual Research,” he admitted. “I revised the totally flawed topic for that one!”
He did study classes on the course, nevertheless.
“I used to play actually defensively however I spotted at THE CJ CUP that it’s worthwhile to go low,” he mentioned. “It’s go low or go residence.”
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