Anthony Kim aims dig at PGA Tour and reignites commentator feud over LIV Golf snub

As the Presidents Cup gets underway successful Montreal, Anthony Kim has taken a swipe astatine the PGA Tour arsenic a fig of LIV Golf stars are incapable to vie successful the event

Anthony Kim has stirred the cookware up of this week's Presidents Cup, suggesting that respective LIV Golf players 'deserve' a spot successful the tourney contempt being banned from the PGA Tour.

The prestigious matchplay event, which pits Team USA against the International Team, is acceptable to tee disconnected astatine The Royal Montreal Golf Club connected Thursday. However, owed to the PGA Tour's sanctions, immoderate golfer who has defected to the arguable LIV series is ineligible to play.

Kim, who made a melodramatic comeback to play with the LIV Golf circuit aft a 12-year hiatus, took to Twitter to explicit his views. "Congrats to each the squad members of the #PresidentsCup. Would beryllium adjacent amended w the @livgolf_league players that merit to beryllium determination arsenic well."

Not 1 to shy distant from controversy, Kim besides took a jab astatine play commentator Brandel Chamblee, with whom he's been feuding: "Still a peculiar lawsuit and accomplishment inquire ramble shamlee helium tin locomotion u thru wat u volition beryllium feeling."

Long-time LIV professional Chamblee had antecedently urged the PGA Tour to scope an agreement with their Saudi rivals, contempt initially downplaying the breakaway league's value successful the golfing world. However, successful response, Kim lashed retired connected Twitter successful May, saying: "Ramble Chamblee @chambleebrandel ur specified a p**** 4 beating connected ur thorax and fundamentally saying ne'er retreat and hypocritically retreat.

"It is good known this talentless fool is disliked by astir radical successful the play world. U inactive gonna screen play if @livgolf_league is involved?" Chamblee rapidly fired back, taking a swipe astatine Phil Mickelson earlier criticising Kim's prime of words successful his archetypal tweet.

"This is astir arsenic inaccurate arsenic a batch of Mickelson's drives," the Golf Channel expert responded to the LIV man. "And sadly ironical coming 2 tweets aft you asked for proposal connected raising your girl that you would notation to idiosyncratic arsenic a pistillate assemblage portion successful a juvenile effort to denigrate them."

The feud yet died down, but LIV wildcard Kim reignited the hostility a period later. "Guys similar that are what is incorrect with golf. Brandel talks astir worldly helium knows thing about," Kim told the Country Club Adjacent podcast.

"I saw an interrogation that Mark Lye did, Brandel and David Duval were connected the Golf Channel. Brandel went connected and connected astir what it's similar successful the Ryder Cup room. How the f*** would you know?

"Here's David Duval who was No. 1 successful the satellite and played successful aggregate Ryder Cup teams, has each these sorts of records, and won a cardinal times. You are over-talking him astir what it is similar and what they are feeling. If they are talking astir what it is similar to thrust to the Korn Ferry [Tour] lawsuit and miss the cut, we would telephone you Brandel!"