@PGATOUR player Chan Kim joins his longtime friend and mentor Andy Walker (head coach at Eastern Michigan) to talk about what he thinks about during the season, where he had his best swing, and how he is changing the game. #chankim #golf #rocketclassic #iscochampionship #raven #phoenix #theedge #scottwalker #andywalker
here with my boy Chan Kim. I tell you what, this is a special interview. Um, I’ve known Chan since you were good. A young teenager, young pup out there and I was still playing at the time and so now this is pretty cool being able to to see him goodness almost 20 years later out here as as becoming an old tour veteran. So, let’s nerd out a little bit and talk about, you know, here at the edge we like to say we’re the cheat code, right? like to give little little tips. What What are you working on right now, you know, to to be successful? You know what, the biggest thing I’m working on right now is tempo. Um I’ve tried to work on so many different things uh the last month and you know, the results haven’t been really good. And you know, sometimes you can over complicate things and um if you can go back to basics, you know, setup wise, for sure, fundamentals, make sure everything’s lined up correctly. Uh gives you a best the best chance to start correctly, you know. um if your fundamentals are a little bit off, you know, you might think you’re taking an outside, but it could be inside compared to how you’re lined up. So, um definitely work on fundamentals. And honestly, I mean, if you’re focused more on hitting the center of the club face, just making good contact, I think that’ll help more than, you know, trying to put yourself in a position in in any part of the golf swing. Awesome. So, that that’s very very pointant in saying that. So, with that, you’re out here thinking fields more than positions and mechanics, right? Right. Um, I think positions and mechanics, sure, in the offseason when you’ve got more time to work on your game. Um, you know, that’s probably more of the time that you should be doing uh swing mechanics, but out here, I mean, you need to score, you know, and scoring is the only thing that should be on your mind. Um, it’s find a pattern on the range. Uh, if you’re hitting a draw, then play the draw. Don’t try to fight it all of a sudden on the golf course. Awesome. So, we’re going to get into a couple of questions here. I’m going to let you go play some golf today. So, it’s called foreplay, right? Not that kind. Come on. So, the first question is tell me what do you like about your golf swing? Um, I definitely like how fluid it is. I think that I my swing looks very uh, you know, very smooth. Not It doesn’t look like I give too much effort into putting into positions and I never really have. I’ve always thought tempo and so it looks very fluid. Um, and I think that’s probably the best part about my swing. I I can second that. It’s always been aesthetically pretty golf swing, right? There’s not a whole bunch going on, not a lot of moving parts. So, part two, what would you change about your golf swing or what do you dislike about it? Um, gosh, as a golfer, um, probably a lot of things, you know, you look at someone like Adam Scott and you’re just like, man, that’s a perfect swing. Or you, you know, anybody can look at anybody else’s swing and be like, that’s that’s a perfect golf swing. But if you look at the top guys, you know, they they know that they their swing is best for them and their play style. And I think the sooner, especially for me, I can realize that, you know, I think I’m going to start playing better. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. It it ain’t going to take much. I mean, your game’s so tight now. I think most of it is you believing you should win out here. You’re going to win. So, third, where was it that you made that one swing that you’re like, “That’s it.” It was the best shot you hit, whether it was in competition or or, you know, playing with friends or practice or whatever. Yeah. Um gosh, I guess it would have to go back to when I played in Japan. Uh my first ever win out there. This is after losing my car the first year and then barely keeping conditional status the second year. And I went out the third year and I said, “You know what? I’m I just got to play golf. Like I can’t worry about everything around me.” And uh the 18th hole um at JF, which is where we played the Mazuna Open. Um you know, water left, bunker right, don’t want to be in either one. It was a par five, so it takes a little bit of pressure off, but at the same time, um, it’s still a tough T- shot. And, uh, I struck one right down the middle. And, you know, under pressure, once you hit a shot under pressure like that, I think you start to realize, okay, I can do this. And, um, it’s helped, you know, with my next seven wins in Japan, two wins on on the Cornfair Tour, and, you know, so I’m just working on getting a win here. Perfect. Perfect. Last question. I know I have an answer for, but what are you doing to change the game? Um, gosh, I’m jealous. I mean, I I I try I I guess the best thing I can do is try to interact with the younger kids out here and, you know, talk to them for a bit and um I do it with the ASC golf team every once in a while. Um, and so I I I guess the best thing you can do is just try and give younger kids better advice and kind of lead them down the right path as far as, you know, what they should be working on and what they should be focused on. Um, and I I just think that that’s the best that I can do right now. No. And you’re doing a great job of it. All the kids kind of, you know, after me and and watching you leave, you know, from from the Raven and and practicing out there all look up to you and are all pulling cheering for you. So, my man, it’s been great learn this week. For sure. Thank you. All right.
