Golfer Tom Kim apologized Monday for damaging a locker door following his playoff loss to Byeong Hun An within the DP World Tour’s Genesis Championship in his native South Korea.
In a press release posted to his Instagram account, Kim stated that he did not intend to break the door Sunday and that he supplied to pay for its restore. Kim stated he apologized to the DP World Tour and the Korean PGA Tour, which co-sanctioned the match held on the Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership Korea in Incheon.
“After the loss I used to be pissed off, sure, completely,” Kim stated within the assertion. “[B]ut I can guarantee you with absolute reality that I had no intent of damaging any a part of the locker, not a single bit.”
An, who additionally hails from South Korea, made an 8-foot birdie putt on the 72nd gap to tie Kim, who had an 8-footer lip out that may have received him the match.
Within the playoff, Kim hit his third shot right into a grandstand on the par-5 18th and made bogey. An made one other birdie to choose up his second DP World Tour victory.
“I addressed it with the [DP World Tour] and the KPGA proper after the incident saying that the door got here off,” Kim stated. “We needed to absolutely pull it out as a consequence of security causes. I additionally allow them to know that I used to be prepared to pay all bills for the harm.”
Kim stated the matter was “closed” after he spoke with the excursions and supplied to pay to restore the door. He did not imagine he could be sanctioned by both circuit.
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“I’m grateful to everybody that is reached out with messages of assist, however to them and everybody else that I’ll have let down, I apologize with all my coronary heart,” Kim wrote.
It is the second time in lower than a month that Kim has apologized for his actions at a match. Finally month’s Presidents Cup in Montreal, he apologized to U.S. group captain Jim Furyk and two-time main winner Xander Schauffele for telling reporters that unidentified members of the U.S. group had been cursing at him and companion Si Woo Kim throughout a foursomes match.
Kim sought out Furyk and Schauffele after his Sunday singles match. The People defeated the Worldwide group 18½-11½.
“Yeah, it was nearly my feedback,” Kim stated on the time. “I simply advised him like, ‘Hey, I did not imply it to go in such a damaging approach.’ If it did, I simply stated I am sorry. It was simply I felt like what I heard yesterday, some feedback that I’ve heard was at the moment, simply coming off the inexperienced, it got here to me so personally and simply I felt prefer it was proper to share.”
