Round 1 Anthony Kim Highlights from LIV GOLF Jeddah

Here is what happend with Anthony Kim in Round 1 of LIV Golf Jeddah.
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Here we go it is the first round of the Liv event here in jeda here I’m not here I’m in Georgia California but Anthony Kim’s first round competitive golf in nearly 12 years we’re going to give you I’m going to spoil everything so if you want to watch it don’t watch this video

But if you just want kind of the update what happened what he shot first round this is what we’re going to do for you today and give you bunch of shots from him and show you what happened here in his first round let’s dive into the action now he starts

On the 18th hole par five he ends up getting a bogey on that hole it kicked off at 3:15 a.m. local time here so I woke up at 3:15 I just woke up my alarm didn’t even wake me up I just popped out of bed said whoa let’s go and we’re

Going to pick it up where I got into the action which is his second hole uh second shot from 71 yards H needs the green and yeah the rust shows up that’s not very good but he does have a long putt for birdie and we’ll see how he

Does and not bad TAPS in to stay at plus one all right so now he’s playing his third hole which is the second hole so it gets confusing right shotgun start nonetheless water right so he’s staying as far left as possible pulls it a little bit no problem a second shot with

The mid iron and Water right so stay left just stay out of the big number Zone that’s what we want stay out of the double bogey land so he manages to chip it to about 5et and we’re going to get a good nerve test here and uh not bad

That’s a confident stroke I I like what I see so far so good t- shot from 206 on the par three again a little tug but not bad but got another short game tester let’s see how he does and no problem short game is looking pretty good he’ll

Tap that in for par now to the fourth hole ak’s Fifth and it’s a longer par five and he quick hooks it so he’ll have a little bit of work here on this par five and we’ll see what he can do here it looks like uh there’s some rust on

His game for sure 125 yards his third shot to the par five and this is like um what 30 ft not great it should be about 15 that would be a lot much sharper and if you’re really tight you’re putting that thing inside 10 ft but rolling the

Long birdie putt all right he’s got a little chicken left on the bone but he manages to knock that in for par and we’re uh he’s rolling so no big deal up the right uh needs a kick and that’s in some type of look at that it’s a little

Weird little hole there in the rough we’ll see what he can do from there but I don’t know see what it does from the oh my goodness okay that’s shank that’s a flat that wasn’t even a half a shank that was a full-on uh shank all the way around uh

The yard look it’s just what happens you haven’t been weird things happen when you play competitive golf when you don’t when you haven’t played for a while we if you’re a local guy playing your Club Championship and you play one of those a year weird things are going to happen so

Hey it’s been 12 years expect a Shanker too so no problem not a big deal it was a weird lie though in that rough it’s kind of a uh nonetheless so what do you expect post shank these are never good so don’t expect anything much here and

Um that’ll be left for par all right so another bogey he chipped it here has this for bogey look I love The Look by the way even down to the floppy shoelaces he’s looking good like his style he’s got the Swagger back I can’t wait to see a big Bell Buckle now now

He’s wearing shorts I don’t know if a giant belt but that’s what I want to see we want to see that going to go back to Vintage I hope he has some of those left in the uh in the closet but maybe who knows it’s been a while been a minute

All right t-shot on his seventh with driver here rips a good one just stay out of the holes in the uh rough would would be good and uh that’ll be good second shot um on six here and I know we’re all holding our breath cuz you don’t want

The the shank to happen again um all right pretty good so here we go you got lines up for birdie can he make his first birdie in like nearly 12 years in competitive golf I’m nervous that’s what we’re talking about finally that’s the first birdie for AK in over a decade in

Competitive golf look there smiles back got a little pep in a step that’s the kind that’s the little stuff we’ve been missing golf has been missing that all right so we’ll pick it up he’s in the dirt here second shot to the Par Four thins it a bit that’s a tough shot thins

It a little bit now Greg Norman sat down with the guys at live farity folz and Arla white they talked about what has happened and how long they’ve been kind of going after Anthony Kim and Norman said look he’s been uh going after him for like two plus year two years really

And he said look he just wasn’t ready he needed to get himself cleaned up is what he said so read into that what you want but not too long ago he was still like not like where he wanted to be but I think um what’s happened over those two

Years is he’s starting to think about like man what happens like I can play G golf again there’s an opportunity there that might have been the Catalyst for him um getting himself cleaned up or whatever but he’s also gotten married he’s has a little daughter so a lot of

Things have been going good in his life life that I think have propelled him and he even talked about how his wife and him had been hanging out playing some golf in the desert Palm Desert Palm Springs and how that they are you know he his love for the game has come back

So I just got to say like without Liv golf we would not be watching Anthony Kim today wouldn’t happen and who knows I don’t want to read too much into this but this really could be something that helped Anthony Kim overcome a lot of you know troubles in his life we’ll see how

The story unfolds but we do know that without Liv we would not be seeing AK right now t-shot on eight here he’s going with the low shot into the wind and just smooth hooks it seems like he’s steering the ball right now which is pretty normal after a bit of a layoff

And the graphic on this shot is talking about if Anthony Kim were to join a team which team would he join and personally I think he he should be a team captain of a new team that’d be really cool now he’s going to have to kind of sharpen up

His game a bit for that to happen but n nonetheless I think it’s uh something cool to to discuss here in the future we’ll talk more about that but looks like another Bogey and so he’s plus three finishing out his first n nine holes now his second shot on the ninth

Which is 10th um off an iron this is totally normal I’m going to guess that his final round this week we’ll start to see some you know really good signs but definitely not his first round we’re not going to see like underpar and 66s in his first round no

But I think we’ll see something later in the week like his last round might just kind of start to um get comfortable hopefully here’s what what pretty good and what we’re seeing are some good signs already some good shots all right now he’s got this for par okay not even

Close so we’re going to see some good we’re going to see some bad that’s just going to be the way it goes he’s plus four now and we’re going to pick him up on um his second shot here on 10 11th hole and once again he’s in the Fairway

And that’s good right he’s driving the ball in the Fairway consistently and uh maybe he can get his second break of the day what do you think now AK has I call like he’s got like that Ricky Fowler putting style it’s probably more the other way around Ricky probably picked

It up from AK but it’s a real free flowing um stroke that is just like without hitch or flaw now okay he missed that but he remains plus4 nonetheless it’s still a great free flowing stroke for a 38- year-old for any age that stroke is you know worth every penny so

We we can all strive for something like that and here’s what I love seeing from AK right okay he was steering it but here’s on this part three he might be steering it a little but he’s playing a shot like he’s picking a shot that’s a

Sign that his mind is engaged that he’s thinking like a pro at that highest level he’s not just free willing it like a hat golfer every swing right he’s playing shots and that’s what we want to see that that’s a great sign there now the coverage kind of slowed down on AK

We kind of went to a lot of leaders for a long time so not uh not unexpected right you the guy’s AK is like he’s in last place right now let’s face it all right he had a three putt on 12 then a couple pars and another bogey on 15 with

A three putt he pars 16 and he’s one hole away from ending his first competitive round in 12 years here he’s with this second shot to the last hole tough one that’s a great shot to finish it out can he finish in style with a birdie no okay so he doesn’t make that

But not a big deal he TAPS in doesn’t he makes it right he’s not being tentative with this putting rolls it in for a plus six 76 it’s a par 70 golf course and let’s just say If This Were a par 72 there would be two more par fivs let’s

Assume he gets a couple more birdies or whatever he shoots a 74 on the on a maybe I mean who knows but he’s six over it’s respectable people thought he wouldn’t break 80 he shoots a 76 and it’s just it was a very like contained round he didn’t have

Giant numbers he didn’t get a 10 he didn’t get double Bogies he had you know bogeys but and one birdie so I think this is a great sign for a guy who’s been gone from competitive golf for so long I mean he hasn’t played anything so thanks

For coming back AK thanks for giving us a great show thanks for working hard I think we’re going to see him his passion reignite his love for the game come back the environment as he goes from Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong Kong to Miami the crowds are going to get bigger and

Bigger and massive and I think his like energy is going to come back in a way that is just reignites the fire that he has so this is I feel like we’re at the beginning stages of something special and I just hope and pray and everything that this turn out to be an

Incredible movie likee story and something that we can you know celebrate for many more years to come but this was the beginning it’s been 12 years in the making and that was round one let me know your thoughts your comments below are greatly appreciated thanks for watching hope

You’re having a good time watching this see you guys soon