Chan Kim

For the South Korean business theorist, see W. Chan Kim.

Chan Kim (born March 24, 1990) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He formerly played on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won eight times, and the Korn Ferry Tour, where he won twice.

Chan Kim
Personal information
Born	(1990-03-24) March 24, 1990 (age 35) Suwon, South Korea
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st)
Sporting nationality	United States
Residence	Gilbert, Arizona, U.S.
Career
College	Arizona State University
Turned professional	2010
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour Korn Ferry Tour Challenge Tour Canadian Tour
Professional wins	10
Highest ranking	61 (December 29, 2019)[1] (as of August 3, 2025)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	8
Korn Ferry Tour	2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	T23: 2021
U.S. Open	CUT: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
The Open Championship	T11: 2017
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour Rookie of the Year 2017 Japan Golf Tour money list winner 2020–21 Japan Golf Tour Most Valuable Player 2020–21

Early life

Kim was born in Suwon, South Korea, but grew up in Hawaii.^[2]

Amateur career

Kim played his college golf at Arizona State University.^[3]

He won the 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur.^[4] He was also a two-time winner of the Arizona Stroke Play Championship.^[5]

Professional career

Kim played on the Canadian Tour in 2011.^[6] He played on the Challenge Tour in 2013 and the Asian Tour in 2013 and 2014.^[6] In 2013, he was runner-up at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship.^[7] He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2015.^[6]

He won the Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour to earn a spot in the 2017 Open Championship. Earlier that week he earned a qualifying spot to the 2017 U.S. Open.^[8] In early July, he won his second Japan Golf Tour event, the Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup, after a bogey-free final round of 66.

In August 2023, Kim won his first event on the Korn Ferry Tour, winning the Magnit Championship by three shots.^[9] He then won the Albertsons Boise Open the week after and by the end of the season, he secured his PGA Tour Card for the next season by finishing 2nd on the points list.^[10]

Amateur wins

• 2007 Hawaii Amateur^[11]
• 2008 Arizona Stroke Play Championship, Thunderbird International
• 2009 Pacific Coast Amateur
• 2010 Arizona Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (10)

Japan Golf Tour wins (8)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Japan majors (2)[a]
Other Japan Golf Tour (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	May 28, 2017	Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open	−15 (68-70-67-68=273)	5 strokes	Michael Hendry
2	Jul 9, 2017	Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup	−18 (67-70-67-66=270)	1 stroke	Hwang Jung-gon
3	Nov 5, 2017	Heiwa PGM Championship	−6 (67-70-72-69=278)	1 stroke	Yuta Ikeda, Song Young-han
4	Oct 20, 2019	Japan Open Golf Championship	[phone]=285)	1 stroke	Mikumu Horikawa, Shaun Norris
5	Dec 6, 2020	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup	−8 (66-66-73-67=272)	1 stroke	Hiroshi Iwata, Tomoharu Otsuki, Hideto Tanihara
6	Oct 3, 2021	Vantelin Tokai Classic	−14 (64-68-69-69=270)	2 strokes	Yuta Ikeda, Jinichiro Kozuma, Tomoharu Otsuki
7	Nov 21, 2021	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	−17 (69-69-66-63=267)	1 stroke	Naoyuki Kataoka, Ryosuke Kinoshita
8	Nov 27, 2022	Casio World Open	−32 (64-66-64-62=256)	6 strokes	Aguri Iwasaki

Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

Legend
Finals events (1)
Other Korn Ferry Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Aug 20, 2023	Magnit Championship	−20 (70-66-68-64=268)	3 strokes	Taylor Dickson
2	Aug 27, 2023	Albertsons Boise Open	−28 (66-62-64-64=256)	2 strokes	David Kocher

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament	2017	2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open	CUT
The Open Championship	T11
PGA Championship

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship		CUT	T23	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	CUT	NT	T53	CUT

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Championship					T35
Match Play				NT1
Invitational
Champions	T58		T46	NT1	NT1

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2025
The Players Championship	CUT

CUT = missed the half-way cut

See also

• 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduates

Notes

1. The 2019 Japan Open Golf Championship was also a Japan major championship.