Si Woo Kim clawed his way back from a shaky front nine to post a fire-hot 5-under 65 in Round 1 of the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. Watch the post-round breakdown as Si Woo reveals:
Driver Drama ➜ Relief: three competing swing thoughts, one big decision, and perfect drives from the 10th on.
Putter Reborn: a brand-new putting coach + hard grind = strokes gained when it mattered most.
Playoff Pressure: sitting on the BMW bubble, why “keeping it simple” is his secret weapon.
New Greens Truth: firmer, less grain—how course changes flipped his strategy.
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First round in for the playoffs. How do you feel after the opening round? Uh Karine. Um could you do English first? Uh yeah. Yeah, it was uh it was tough start. So especially my driver wasn’t feeling good earlier. I mean front nine and haven’t hit the fairway as much. So tough to start and somehow got putting works really good. So kind of kept it there and then back nine kind of filled back a little bit of driver. So hit a lot of fairways and somehow got a lot of party chance at the end. So uh yeah, partying was all day good. So was helping to shoot five under. What hole did the driver begin to feel comfortable with that it started clicking to kind of uh start 10? Somehow I kind of pick I have like three different swing like swing thoughts. So kind of like dies. So I just pick just two and that helps me a little clear of mines and I think 10 11 I mean 10 12 13 I hit it good drives I think coming in last five holes feel way comfortable. This is your best round at TPC Southwind since 2022. What’s the biggest difference today? I think I would say putting. I’ve been struggling last few six weeks about putting. So, I worked really hard last couple weeks with the new coach and then it works really good today. So, I think that helps me a lot. How important was it for you to get off to a good start trying to get into BMW? Yeah, it’s it’s kind of like like dicey dicey spot right now. So I and started pretty struggling. So kind of like oh I don’t know I can get through next week but I trying to keep it simple as possible and then it helps me a lot and then hopefully had hit had a great round so I got more room to be next couple days like pressure wise. So yeah, just trying to get simple and not not much to think about the next week after a full round today. What are your thoughts on the new greens? Sorry again. The new greens. Uh new greens definitely farmer especially from the rough there’s no chance to stop. Even I hit a 52 degree like third hole. Bull didn’t bull didn’t even stop and so so hard to play with the rough but fairway is kind of stops pretty good except long iron so it’s kind of firm but less greeny so hard though so easier to green rating I
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