Michael Kim Tuesday Press Conference 2024 Farmers Insurance Open © PGA Tour
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What’s up M all right Michael good to see you good all right we will uh we will go ahead and get started here with uh with Michael Kim here at the Farmers Insurance open uh Michael making your eighth start at this tournament here this week and obviously um High School
Down the road at Tory Pines High School I guess just starting out how how special is it to be back can uh be a part of this tournament again yeah um you know this tournament is um obviously really special for me um this is uh where Tory Pines where I grew up playing
I went to Tory Pines High School and um speak closer in or we okay we should be getting there yeah no there there we go we go um so um I’m always excited to come back um to this event and uh it’s almost a almost a dream come true dream
Is to actually win the thing so we’ll see well you’re you’re coming in on some on some great form finishing tied for six at the American Express finishing birdies in the last four holes um you know it also put you in a really good position for the Aon swing five you’re
You’re sixth in the standings right now and um a good finish this week and opportunity to get into into Pebble Beach what what added motivation does that give you here here this week with uh with that goal out there um I certainly don’t need any more motivation than I have
Um to win this tournament but um you know PEB Beach is also another cool obviously really cool place um having gone to school at Cal near there um I enjoyed playing with amateurs in that format um and I I played I think I finished 11th there last year so um you
Know just Good Vibes for that week and uh hopefully I can uh do a do a good week this week and uh move on to next week too and just real quickly before questions you you again talking about your recent form you you mentioned that you may
Maybe didn’t feel like you had the your best stuff last week but you were able to make adjustments throughout the course of the four days and and turn in a good result does that does that give you any additional confidence knowing that hey I can I can still you know
Finish in the top 10 any given week even though I’m not necessarily you know firing on all cylinders yeah definitely um you know heading into Sony um few things that Sean and I were working on and um it was pretty inconsistent at Sony um with the ball striking but U the
Putting and chipping was really good um and you know was able to figure some stuff out um while playing AMX last week and was able to um put up a good final round so it’s definitely a a confidence booster knowing that I don’t always have
To feel great to um to have a to have a good finish out here Perfect all right we’ll start with questions here and we’ll go ahe and start with Todd Michael do you understand the Aon enough to know what you need to do this week do you
Have any idea I understand that Carl is in front of me I understand I need to be inside the top five um I didn’t I wasn’t thinking about it at all until a few days ago um I think I’m 20 or some odd points behind and I need to you know be
Inside the top five and like always the answer is play better so you know if I if I have a good week this week it it’ll um it’ll work out accordingly I’m sure but as far as you know you would need a top five you would need a top five or I
Need to be inside the top five of that of that list of that a on five list I I I don’t if I if I have a top five this week I’m sure I’ll be in next week but uh yes but you don’t know exactly what what position you need to get into
Necessarily um I mean I guess in a perfect world I think I think I’m like 20 something points behind which is like a top 15 20th so I’m sure that’s probably the minimum I need to do but regardless like I said I have plenty of
Motivation to do my best this week um so I’m not too worried about that at the moment the creation of the Aon is obviously to give guys a chance to get into some of the Signature Events I mean how how great a thing is it that you
This opportunity so early in the season to make some kind of Mark as far as your next step yeah definitely you know for me typically I’ve I’ve always loved the West Coast Swing um I grew up in California went to school to California so but typically I’ve had a I’ve been a
Slow starter um but this last week at the MX is is um was great to get off to a good start and hopefully continue that two pebble um you know when I was looking at the schedule um for this year it’s kind of one of those things where
Like the majors for me where if I get into them great but um it’s not like I’m planning on um playing Pebble or Genesis or stuff like that so um it it was a nice surprise to see that I have a have a good chance for next week and um
Hopefully u a good week we’ll take care of that the contrast between playing out in the desert and then coming here weather aside we got like three inches of rain yesterday or whatever um is that do you think that that um the conditions at Tory and the difficulty
Scares some guys away and maybe scares the wrong word but just makes guys have to really weigh their schedule as far as do they want to come out here this early in the season and play a course this difficult uh you know I think in the past the poana greens have
Been maybe not an issue but a but a tricky Point um but I have played on these greens when they’re the absolute worst on a Friday afternoon at 6 PM so the greens don’t phase me as much um but you know this it just uh you know I feel like
This tournament the guys that play it every year play it um certain guys skip it every year but um um yeah how about the difficulty of it this early in the season when you’re still working on your game um you know it is long and difficult obviously but it’s quite
Generous off the te in that there’s not too many hazards off the te like you’ll be able to find it on in most most holes other than maybe like four if you go left uh seven now you can’t really lose it on seven um but you know you’ll be
Able to find your golf ball so it’s it’s the fairways themselves are tight but you’ll be able to find it as long as you um hit it within reason so it’s there it’s a bit of a balance I think one more what have you thought of the rough the
Last couple of years the last few years as far as how difficult it is and even look at the North and the South yeah um I think one of the biggest differences is how difficult the north has kind of become I feel like when I when I first you know came to this
Tournament as a as a kid everyone tore up north um I remember distinctly sneaker shot like 61 or some some ridiculously low and kind of used that as a springboard but now I don’t think the the Gap is as wide um the rough you know we’ll see um it’s obviously rained
A lot so I don’t know I don’t think they’re they’ll be able to even cut it usually they don’t cut it when it’s this wet so so we’ll see I haven’t really um checked out the golf course too much um from the rain and but I feel really
Comfortable out here and I’m sure I can adjust right just go over here Michael this is bit of a broad question but I think this week marks the 10th anniversary of your first PGA Tour uh event what could you have imagined the journey that you’ve been on back then in
Those 10 years I mean you had the you had the win you had all the struggles you’ve had your recent play your I think your world ranking was you know well into four figures and now you’re at 100 which I think might be your best best one
Ever what can you just kind of put in perspective a little bit what these 10 years have been like and if you could have imagined anything like that when you were if you were sitting up there 10 years ago this week um definitely not I
Mean it is a pretty it has been a pretty big roller coaster ride you know when you um when you show up to a when you grow up you know hoping to someday play in the event you know you don’t really you only think about the good things
That might happen you don’t really necessarily think about all the bad things that can happen um but you know I during those ups and downs I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a person and as a golfer and certainly much more knowledgeable about about my mental game my my full
Swing and and all that um so you know hopefully I can use those ups and downs to further my career um starting now and like you said I am finally in the I think I’m a hundredth now um Nick duml it just took him four events but you
Know to be inside but you know that it is what it is um so um you know hope like I said hopefully I can use those learn um lessons um for for a better career going forward what did you learn about yourself during those years when you were struggling and
How how did you sort how did you keep it together um you know luckily I I have I’ve always had a great support system outside of golf I was able to kind of differentiate some of the bad golf and and the real life stuff um I
Was able to kind of leave the bad on the golf course and once I got off I was I was okay you know I was sad for sure on during a lot of those a lot of those moments but um for the most part you know I was able to
Differentiate that and now you know coming back I just have a ton of gratitude being being here um feeling like my game is in a good shape um never would have imagined the degrees of ups and downs but um you know in the end it’s it’s uh it’s I consider is just
A big process of it all you mentioned off the course and much has been made about your social media presence was there a conscious decision you made at some point that you wanted to be more I guess just put yourself out there with people I mean that that website can be
Aess pool uh for a lot of it can yeah um you know I think I don’t know the exact moment I decided but there definitely was a obviously a moment where I decided I want to be a little more active um like I mentioned to Todd last week um you
Know Max obviously being a really close friend a college teammate of mine and I I guess if there was one moment I played with him at the Safeway not this last one but the one before that um and for whatever reason Max is in our my career we never really
Matched up when I was playing well he was playing bad and he he was playing well I was playing bad so I hadn’t really seen his his following grow as much and I think that week was a big eye opener and seeing the following that he had
Seeing the crowd that he that he drew um you know I certainly that was a bit of a catalyst for me thinking you know maybe I can I can use Twitter or X as as something to grow you know quote unquote my brand and um that was probably the
Biggest start point of it all yeah last thing what what’s been the what’s been the highlight of doing that I mean I I imagine you’ve interacted with with a lot of people you’ve watched a lot of bad swings uh and analyzed them what what do you what have you taken and
What have you taken from it the Highlight I I don’t know if there’s a real highlight um I think it’s just you know even last week I ended up playing with a couple of my followers on on Twitter as as U amateur participants so you know
And you know once in a while I’ll get um someone from the crowd recognizing me um which is as a kind of a regular PGA Tour player is pretty rare um and so just those moments kind of shows me that I’m doing something um something good I
Guess um and so I think it’s those moments that that kind of surprise me and like oh my gosh like you actually recognize me compared to the next guy those kind of moments um are probably the positives for sure go up to Paul hey Michael uh I recently on Twitter you
Kind of showed your swings throughout the years and how they changed and matured I’m just wondering as you’ve gone through coaching if you’ve realized there’s a certain type of coaching that you respond to best or certain ways if that’s evolved on how you like to go about things with with a coach
Um I think there are certain swing characteristics that I do much better with I don’t know if there are certain like coaching Styles but it’s definitely some some methodology stuff that definitely I do better with whether that’s kind of a a neutral to open Club phase compared to um a shut
Club face I I do much better with a neutral Club face um um and the the work that I have done with Shawn over the last I want to say two and a half years has been has been great and I I guess I work really well with Shan um not that I
Didn’t work well um with coaches before but um has I’ve seen definitely the most success with Sean is it just the way you guys interact or the way he talks about the game um I do think you know Sean is a um a wellth thought out person he
Definitely thinking about all kinds of different things at all times and um he’s definitely a type of coach and to be honest a person that I really haven’t interacted a ton with but you know everything has been has been awesome um for for me at this point
Um so you know maybe it it is the way he you know gives me certain swing ideas or thoughts about it um but you know whatever whatever it has been it has been great then a little off topic just as someone who played last week um and
Was kind of intimately familiar with the golf course and the tournament just what did you think about what Nick was able to do as a young amateur and kind of how impressive that is I mean it’s it’s unbelievable um I think this was his fourth or fifth Professional
Event um it’s uh he’s 20 years old I I guess I I think I might have been about that age when I first turned Pro here um it’s uh you know when you’re that young you’re kind of you don’t you just don’t have as much scar tissue and so you’re able to kind
Of freee it um he obviously is an incredible golfer um it’s it’s it’s pretty it’s pretty amazing um then also at the same time I I saw the that Jordan Speed when he won to John Deere was actually younger than Nick so you know it’s I think the
Amateur tag is is has changed our idea and how young he was but you know you know you just see the things that Jordan has done is is equally as impressive um but you know obviously what Nick did last week playing with Sam playing with JT on that final round was super super
Impressive stuff okay when you think about all the time you spent on this property is there any certain memory that comes to mind that makes you appreciate your journey um whenever I come back I remember mostly tiger shots his some of his most famous shots out here and meet
Trying trying those shots um mostly mostly the the put on 18 um when he won the US Open or to get into the playoff in the US Open um certainly I think two weeks after that uh event when when I was able to play I think I tried
A few putts from that exact spot um the putt on 13 he made from the back of the green to the front on Saturday um just mainly those me memories of trying really some of the shots that he hit um and also just remember him making Eagle on the North Course on on
Uh they switched up to nine so I’m always confused it’s N9 or 18 I just remember him making Eagle putt um it’s it’s a lot of those kind of cool cool memories that that come back whenever I come back do you remember the first time or the year that you stepped on property
Watching tournament I don’t remember the exact time um but probably I would think the first time I watched tiger in person was I was in Middle School I think so maybe like 2006 or something like that was probably the first time Perfect all let’s go back there hey Michael uh NBC San Diego
Darney trip here um did did you make that put on 18 when you tried it two we well I uh the the the cup wasn’t exactly there so I put a te down um but I certainly um I think I think I put a te
Down I took a couple tries at it and I I probably imitated Tiger’s fist pump and then looked around to see if anyone’s watching uh but I can’t I probably wasn’t the only person trying trying that putt after after that so no definitely not um you talked about your
Social media presence you had some fun on Twitter yesterday uh did you relish the opport to remind everybody like hey I’m I’m one of the hometown guys too it’s kind of funny so a friend sent me the screenshot of my name not being on
The the list of guys on San Diego and so I’m kind of looking at the list I see Charlie Hoffman I’m like yeah I get that I see Xander cha I’m like yeah I I get that I see JJ spawn I’m kind of like like I don’t know I’m probably I don’t
Know if you remember JJ you should probably remember me and I see Cameron CIS and I’m like who the hell is Cameron sis and uh and then and then um funny enough I actually ran into on the Range just earlier and he had a picture he
Caded for me like 10 years ago when I was playing this event as like a first te like walk up 18 and he sent me the picture it’s it was kind of funny that um like it was kind of a one of my first U old veteran guy moment I guess um cuz
Cuz I I still feel like I’m one of the younger guys out here but uh seeing that was kind of funny you mentioned kind of some of the negativity I know it can be hard for professional athletes did you have to overcome any of that when you
Decided to kind of lean into social media I’m sure that through the years you’d seen kind of negative comments that sort of thing like all athletes seem to um you know for the most part I feel like a lot of it’s been pretty positive to be honest um considering it
Is usually somewhat negative um um you know it’s usually like the live troll Bots that are like kind of commenting once in a while but of the negative stuff but those are that doesn’t mean that you know those guys are sending out tweets to every every PJ
Tour player so I I those are pretty easy to ignore for the most part I feel like everyone has been pretty positive about about um some of the stuff that I’ve been tweeting and lastly for me um what have you learned through the years and your experience about what it takes to
Score out here when it is a little bit damp yeah you know I feel like I’ve played this tournament in every condition um and not just like going back to junior golf but when I played when when I was a junior but like the few times that I have played well and I
Have been kind of near the lead first I feel like the first time was the year um snker won um when that Monday finish it was I mean it was torrential downpour it was blowing 40 miles per hour it was I shot maybe like 82 or something I mean
It was so hard and then the next time um I did well uh the Santa Ana winds came and it was blowing 30 I think Jason day won that year so every time I’ve done well through Saturday it has been like a crazy crazy weather type day um
Hopefully this time around looks like the weather’s going to be good so um hopefully I can play well well enough to um contend and you know if the weather if if the things go right hopefully I have a chance all right we’ll just finish up here
Mark Todd’s got one after me oh yeah sorry Michael while we’re going down memory lane um most most guys would remember their first PGA to a start do you have any distinct memory of your first start here 2014 um to be honest I just remember
Being super nervous on the first te um I remember my game wasn’t in at all good shape um heading into the week um I kind of scrapped it around Thursday on the North Course to shoot two under um I remember I went to the back of the range
And I saw tiger was hitting some golf balls and Sean was Sean Foley was a coach at that time and I had I had known Sean a little bit at that point so I kind of used him as an intro to get a picture with him
Afterwards um stuff like that um I know I I played pretty terrible that Friday um to miss the cut um but you know I just remember those those first T Jitters for sure I was as nervous as I had ever been all right we’ll finish with Todd here again when you when you
Tried the tiger putt after the open did you make it I like um so I put a te down and I pretended to make it and and and give it the old you hit the te did you I I I’m I think I uh was was I don’t I
Don’t think I hit the te itself but you know was it was close enough to where I pretended to make it people have talked about how hard that putt was it was not straight by any strip imagination do you remember that part of it that you’re
Like thinking holy crap I mean I feel like everyone remers remembers how how bumpy the greens were in that slow motion of of It kind of rolling and bumping along and and it taking a while for it to break and and and all that yeah did you come for the US Open that
Year were you on the property I wasn’t on the property I don’t think um I think my parents just told me to watch it on TV so and I I must I’m I want to say I was at a I was playing a golf tournament like a junior golf maybe like an ajj
Tournament so I wasn’t on site um but obviously watched every moment of it could that I could Monday too Monday too yeah all right sure Michael we thank you so much for the time and uh best of luck this week thank you is there any way we did that photo I
Think the broadcast
