World No. 18 Tom Kim withdraws from Players due to illness

Tom Kim withdrew from The Players Championship eight holes into his opening spherical at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Seashore, Fla. on Thursday.

The PGA Tour said Kim’s withdrawal was on account of an unspecified sickness. It got here as Kim was 5-over par following a triple-bogey on the par-3 seventeenth gap. He additionally had carded a pair of bogeys together with 5 pars after beginning on the tenth gap.

The three-time winner on tour is No. 18 within the Official World Golf Rating. The favored 21-year-old from South Korea most not too long ago gained on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open in October to achieve a career-best eleventh on this planet.

Kim had made six of seven cuts in 2024 coming into this week. His finest results of the yr was a T17 on the Waste Administration Phoenix Open final month, and he is coming off a T52 on the Arnold Palmer Invitational.