When’s the last time Anthony Kim played in a professional golf tournament?

Anthony Kim will make his return to skilled golf this week, signing on to play within the LIV Golf League for the remaining 10 occasions of its common season.

Kim, now 38 years previous, will debut within the LIV Golf occasion in Saudi Arabia, and he won’t be affiliated with any group within the league. He’ll play on his personal, solely contributing to the 54-player particular person competitors. At a minimal, he’ll earn $50,000 per occasion performed, plus no matter up-front signing bonus that he negotiated with the Saudi-owned league.

“After stepping away from the sport years in the past on account of harm, I’m completely happy to formally announce my return to the world {of professional} golf,” stated Kim in a press launch formally asserting his signing with LIV Golf.

“It’s been a very long time coming, and I’m very grateful for all of the highs, lows and classes discovered from the primary a part of my profession. I wish to compete with the perfect gamers on this planet, and I’m on a mission to show to myself that I can win once more. The subsequent step on that journey begins now, and I’m excited to provide every little thing I’ve acquired this season on the LIV Golf League.”

Nonetheless, Kim hasn’t performed skilled golf in a very long time. The final time Anthony Kim performed an expert golf match was in 2012, and that is when he withdrew from what’s now the Wells Fargo Championship after a first-round 74 with tendinitis in his left arm. He then ruptured his Achilles in June 2012, leaving him out of motion as much as 12 months. He by no means returned.

Kim, a three-time PGA Tour winner, underwent surgical procedure on his left thumb in 2010.

As soon as ranked sixth on this planet, Kim had fallen to 197th on this planet by the point the Achilles harm occurred. In 2012, he made simply two cuts in 10 begins, withdrawing from his final three tournaments.

There was an extended reported and oft-repeated declare that Anthony Kim has a $10 million incapacity insurance coverage coverage on which he has been amassing, supplied that he did not play skilled golf and sure fulfill different necessities. It is unclear how lengthy that coverage was or is in power, and it is also unclear if Kim needed to be purchased out of that coverage for him to signal with LIV Golf.

The web golf neighborhood has typically questioned if Kim would return to golf sometime, together with sharing previous movies and random images of Kim noticed out in Dallas, the place he lives, and different locations.