LIV Golf's Anthony Kim Details Just How Removed He Was From the Game

DORAL, Fla. — Anthony Kim has yet to go into specifics, but he clearly endured some troubled times amid a 12-year layoff from professional golf in which he all but went underground.

“So I'm learning as I go,” Kim said at Doral, where he will play in the LIV Golf Miami event starting Friday. “And as important as golf is and as important as it is to win and to be in contention, I just want to be in the right mental place. Life is too short to be super upset.“I would get upset if I played a bad round of golf for two weeks, and it would bother me, eat at me.

Kim, who won three times on the PGA Tour and starred on the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team, disclosed that he’s really not been playing golf for very long. Greg Norman, LIV’s commissioner, approached him about a return approximately three months ago and he didn’t really ramp up his prep for his first event in Jeddah until three weeks prior.

“I actually, before I went to Saudi, played golf with the guy that I borrowed his clubs that time. It's interesting, I'm hearing all these rumors that I played golf and was playing in big money games, and obviously people have a large imagination when they are sitting in their basement.” “Obviously after that, golf was out of the picture. So I played a few rounds with my wife. The day before I broke my ankle, I played my first full round of golf. Then the next day I went out on hole 6 , I tried to jump a creek and being 38 years old, I didn't make it and wound up breaking my ankle. I thought it was out of the picture.

“But I got professional help. I think that I didn't deal with a lot of the trauma and whatever came from my life, and I buried it because I didn't want to show anybody weakness, right. And I thought by showing vulnerability, that was weakness, and I've come to a point in my life where I don't care if somebody thinks that about me or not.

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