Sihwan Kim

Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved with his parents to California at a young age. He graduated from Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, where he was golf team captain. In 2004, he won the U.S. Junior Amateur at The Olympic Club, 1 up, over David Chung. He won the Mission Hills Desert Junior and the Rolex Tournament of Champions in 2007. He advanced to the Round of 16 in the 2008 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst and T-6th with an 11-under-par 269 at the Players Amateur.
Kim attended Stanford University and played college golf with the Stanford Cardinal men's golf team between 2007 and 2011, where he was named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. He played in the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational on the 2008 Nationwide Tour and recorded the lowest finish out of all the amateurs, finishing in a T-6th.
Kim turned professional in 2011 and joined the European Challenge Tour in 2012, where he was runner-up at the Rolex Trophy in Switzerland behind Kristoffer Broberg in his rookie season. In 2013, he was runner-up at the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge in France and the Kharkiv Superior Cup in Ukraine. He finished 9th on the Order of Merit to graduate to the 2014 European Tour, where he recorded two top-10 finishes. Playing mainly on the Challenge Tour 2015-2017, his best finish was a T-2nd at the 2017 Swedish Challenge behind Tano Goya of Argentina.
Kim played full-time on the European Tour in 2014, 2019, 2020, and 2021. He played in 106 events making 59 cuts with eight top-ten finishes. His best finish was T-3rd at the D+D REAL Czech Challenge. He has earned euro628,945. Played in 89 Challenge Tour events making 57 cuts with 17 top-ten finishes. He was runner-up four times, last at the 2017 Swedish Challenge. He has earned euro 226,530.
Kim started playing on the Asian Tour in late 2017 after finishing T-8th at Q-School. In 2018, he finished 8th on the Order of Merit after recording a solo second at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship. In 2022, after several close calls, he won his first Asian Tour title at the International Series Thailand, a week after finishing T-2nd at the Royal's Cup behind Chan Shih-chang. The following month, he won the Trust Golf Asian Mixed Stableford Challenge in Thailand, two points ahead of Maja Stark in second, after holing a 40-foot putt for an eagle on the final hole.

Here are his Asian Tour results for 2022:
Was T-54th at The Singapore International
4th at the SMBC Singapore Open. The event gave exemptions to the 2022 Open Championship, and Kim got the last spot.
T-59th at the PIF Saudi International
T-2nd at the Royal's Cup
Won the International Series Thailand
T-9th at the Trust Golf Asian Mixed Cup
Won the Trust Golf Asian Mixed Stableford Challenge
Missed cut at the GS Caltex Maekyung
T-6th at the International Series England
Missed cut at the Kolon Korea Open
A missed cut at the British Open
T-46th at the Cazoo Classic
A missed cut at the Mandiri Indonesia Open and International Series Singapore
T-28th at the International Series Morocco
T-3rd at the International Series Egypt
T-28th at the BNI Indonesian Masters
He finished 2022 1st in the Asian Order of Merit with $627,458 in winnings.

2023 Notes: Missed the cut at the PIF Saui International and International Series Qatar
72nd at the International Series Oman.