Anthony Kim is in talks with the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and potential sponsors at a return to golf.

It has been reported by Dylan Dethier at golf.com that the three-time PGA Tour winner, Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup champ is in various discussions on where and when he might play golf having disappeared from the game over a decade ago.

Sources close to Kim have been quoted as saying, “He’s been playing more golf. He’s been ramping up workouts. He’s confident in his game.”

But what does that mean? Nobody has really heard or seen from Kim for over 10 years. What is all the hype about now?

He was insanely good!

After cleaning up in the amateur circuit, Kim turned professional in 2006 after a second-place finish in his first-ever event on the PGA Tour as an amateur.

10 top 25 finishes followed, with 4 inside the top 10 in just his rookie season as a pro in 2007. Two PGA Tour victories in 2008 and a bag full of further top 10’s, moved him up to 6th in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Along with a victorious Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup debut in 2008 and 2009, Kim notched a third PGA Tour victory in 2010 at the Shell Huston Open, but was struck with his first injury at the back end of the year, resulting him in missing out on the 2010 Ryder Cup and being sidelined for three months.

Never fully recovering over the next two seasons he only played a total of 36 tournaments. Then in 2012, an Achilles tendon injury in his left leg sidelined him again, expecting to miss 9-12 months from the game. He was eligible for the 2013 season on a medical exemption but hasn’t played a single event since.

In 2014 it was reported that Kim had quit the game and he has a USD 10 – 20 million insurance policy against his career-ending injury that is void if he ever takes a swing on the Tour. Then in 2015, he was quoted as saying that golf is a fond memory and he enjoys watching it on TV and misses the competition.

Now aged 38 years old, Kim has supposedly already had a call from LIV CEO Greg Norman directly discussing a one-year offer that would cover Kim’s insurance policy — again, in the area of USD 10 million — while allowing him to earn prize money and sponsor deals on top of that. A LIV spokesperson declined to comment.

With just days to go until LIV Golf starts its 2024 season in Mexico, could he even be making up one of the spots left on Jon Rahm’s team? That would turn some heads.

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