Kim earns his fourth career victory and thrusts himself back into the spotlight as one of the game’s great young players at just 24.
The victory is also an increasingly rare event on the PGA Tour as Kim won with the same Scotty Cameron blade putter he used in his first victory at the 2022 Wyndham Championship. Kim is just the second player this season to win with a blade putter, joining Matt Fitzpatrick, who has three victories.
Kim has used many different putters since his early career success, including both blades and mallets, but maintains that his best performances are with blades. This week, he was 20th in the field, picking up 3.658 strokes on the greens.
The South Korean was also impressive off the tee this week, ranking 9th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (3.079). Kim was an early convert to Titleist’s new GTS3 driver, switching at the Valero Texas Open. In testing, Kim saw more consistent spin windows and an increase in ball speed.
While Kim likes to see the ball fall right, he actually adjusted the front weight track of his driver this week to move his start line just a touch more left, back toward neutral.
This week, Kim also chose to employ both a GTS3 5-wood and a T200 2-iron by dropping his sand wedge, something we saw Tommy Fleetwood do as well. Kim has been going back and forth between three- and four-wedge setups this season, but the three-wedge setup allows him to keep two fairway woods and either a hybrid or a utility iron. The utility iron got the call for this week’s links setup.
For more on Kim’s detailed setup, keep reading below.
Tom Kim’s winning WITB at the Genesis Scottish Open
Driver: Titleist GTS3 9.0˚ Shaft: Fujikura Atmos Black 6-X
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