PGA Tour star Tom Kim apologizes over 'breaking locker door' after Genesis Championship loss in Korea

PGA Tour prima Tom Kim has been forced to apologize aft allowing his frustrations to boil implicit astatine the weekend. 

The 22-year-old suffered heartbreak Sunday erstwhile helium narrowly mislaid the DP World Tour's Genesis Championship successful a playoff to fellow South Korean Byeong Hun An. 

It marked the 2nd playoff decision of the twelvemonth for Kim, who seemingly took his choler retired connected the locker country astatine Jack Nicklaus Golf Club successful Incheon, South Korea. 

The rising play prima reportedly broke a locker country doorway successful vexation with a photograph showing the beforehand of the clubhouse cubby wholly disconnected its hinges.

The South Korean subordinate took to his Instagram relationship to contented an apology for his locker country behavior.

Saying helium wanted the accusation astir the incidental to travel straight from him, Kim shared that helium had already addressed the contented with the KPGA and the DP World Tour, apologizing to some and offering to wage for the damages.

'After the nonaccomplishment I was frustrated, yes, absolutely,' Kim said successful the statement. '[B]ut I tin guarantee you with implicit information that I had nary intent of damaging immoderate portion of the locker, not a azygous bit.

'I addressed it with the [DP World Tour] and the KPGA close aft the incidental saying that the doorway came off. We had to afloat propulsion it retired owed to information reasons. I besides fto them cognize that I was consenting to wage each expenses for the damage.'

'I americium grateful to everyone that's reached retired with messages of support, but to them and everyone other that I whitethorn person fto down, I apologize with each my heart,' Kim added. 

There had been reports that Kim could look disciplinary enactment from the Korea Professional Golfers' Association implicit the incident. However, helium said that aft his apology and mentation 'the substance was considered closed.' He seemingly did not judge helium would beryllium sanctioned. 

Kim's manager, Ben Harrison, insisted to Golf.com that neither helium nor his lawsuit had been informed of immoderate imaginable discipline.  

'He's been portrayed arsenic idiosyncratic that smashed up a locker and fundamentally stormed retired similar a baby,' Harrison told the outlet. 

'That's not what helium did. He broke the locker due to the fact that helium opened it excessively — helium didn't instrumentality a nine and smash it up. He virtually held the grip of the locker, opened it super-aggressively and it broke a hinge.' 

Kim mislaid successful a playoff Sunday wherever connected the par-5 18th helium deed his 3rd changeable into a grandstand and made bogey. An followed that up by making different birdie for the win.

It marked the 2nd clip successful the abstraction of a period that Kim has had to contented a nationalist apology.  

Last period astatine the Presidents Cup successful Montreal, Kim apologized to US skipper Jim Furyk and Xander Schauffele aft Kim told reporters that unidentified members of the US squad were 'cursing astatine us' during their foursomes lucifer successful which helium joined spouse Si Woo Kim against Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.