Tom Kim apologizes for damaging locker door after loss in playoff

Golfer Tom Kim apologized Monday for damaging a locker door following his playoff loss to Byeong Hun An within the DP World Tour’s Genesis Championship in his native South Korea.

In a statement posted to his Instagram account, Kim mentioned that he did not intend to wreck the door Sunday and that he supplied to pay for its restore. Kim mentioned he apologized to the DP World Tour and the Korean PGA Tour, which co-sanctioned the event held on the Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership Korea in Incheon.

“After the loss I used to be annoyed, sure, completely,” Kim mentioned within the assertion. “[B]ut I can guarantee you with absolute fact that I had no intent of damaging any a part of the locker, not a single bit.”

An, who additionally hails from South Korea, made an 8-foot birdie putt on the 72nd gap to tie Kim, who had an 8-footer lip out that might have gained him the event.

Within the playoff, Kim hit his third shot right into a grandstand on the par-5 18th and made bogey. An made one other birdie to choose up his second DP World Tour victory.

“I addressed it with the [DP World Tour] and the KPGA proper after the incident saying that the door got here off,” Kim mentioned. “We needed to absolutely pull it out resulting from security causes. I additionally allow them to know that I used to be prepared to pay all bills for the injury.”

Kim mentioned the matter was “closed” after he spoke with the excursions and supplied to pay to restore the door. He did not imagine he can be sanctioned by both circuit.

“I’m grateful to everybody that is reached out with messages of help, however to them and everybody else that I could have let down, I apologize with all my coronary heart,” Kim wrote.

It is the second time in lower than a month that Kim has apologized for his actions at a event. Eventually month’s Presidents Cup in Montreal, he apologized to U.S. staff captain Jim Furyk and two-time main winner Xander Schauffele for telling reporters that unidentified members of the U.S. staff had been cursing at him and companion Si Woo Kim throughout a foursomes match.

Kim sought out Furyk and Schauffele after his Sunday singles match. The People defeated the Worldwide staff 18½-11½.

“Yeah, it was nearly my feedback,” Kim mentioned on the time. “I simply informed him like, ‘Hey, I did not imply it to go in such a adverse method.’ If it did, I simply mentioned I am sorry. It was simply I felt like what I heard yesterday, some feedback that I’ve heard was at the moment, simply coming off the inexperienced, it got here to me so personally and simply I felt prefer it was proper to share.”