Anthony Kim makes fresh career move after mixed year with LIV Golf

Anthony Kim has taken the determination to perpetrate to the International Series lawsuit successful Qatar aboriginal this month, arsenic the LIV Golf wildcard ventures distant from the breakaway league

Anthony Kim, the erstwhile PGA Tour star, is acceptable to marque a astonishment quality astatine the Asian Tour's International Series aboriginal this month.

The Californian golfer, who hasn't played competitively successful 12 years, made the determination to perpetrate to the lawsuit successful Qatar aft receiving a wildcard from LIV Golf. With the 2024 play of LIV Golf wrapping up successful September astatine the Team Championship, players connected the roster look a lengthy hold earlier they tin instrumentality to enactment connected the breakaway league.

A five-month offseason means the league won't beryllium backmost until February for the commencement of their 2025 campaign. In the meantime, galore LIV members person chosen to enactment successful the league's feeder tour, the International Series, with their adjacent lawsuit taking spot astatine Doha Golf Club successful the Qatar capital. Among the 18-strong tract are golfers specified arsenic Patrick Reed, Louis Oosthuizen, and Charl Schwartzel, who volition beryllium joined by Kim, 1 of the league's 2024 wildcards.

Kim was a daze signing by the Saudi-backed circuit earlier this year, having been retired of competitory play for implicit a decade. Despite being signed arsenic 1 of the league's wildcards alongside Hudson Swafford, Kim struggled to regain the signifier that marked him arsenic a rising prima aboriginal successful his career.

His rusty show was possibly to beryllium expected aft specified a agelong hiatus. Kim's aboriginal successful the breakaway league is uncertain beyond 2025, contempt being signed arsenic a wildcard. He has humble expectations for his return, which helium says is motivated by a tendency to enactment his family.

Reflecting connected his determination earlier this year, Kim shared: "When Greg [Norman] and I spoke earlier I made the determination to travel to LIV, helium talked astir however helium wanted maine to beryllium astir my household and to consciousness supported.

"Not consciousness similar I'm an land and you locomotion by everybody and you to the grade accidental hello. I'm not saying everyone connected this circuit is champion friends, but there's decidedly a batch of enactment retired here. My household has been treated world-class by everyone, whether it beryllium Jane and the media team, Greg, Jed, each those guys person been amazing."

"It's casual to scope retired to them and get support. I cognize that I person a batch of radical coming into municipality this week, and Martin with question has conscionable made everything truthful easy."

Later this month, Kim volition caput to the Asian Tour, returning aft participating successful the International Series lawsuit successful Macau successful March.