[Tom Kim] Oh boy. Wow.
[indistinct chatter]
-Ready for a little one? -I'll wait out here for you. Thank you.
[man 1] Morning, Jeff.
[woman speaking in background]
[Tom] Wait.
[indistinct chatter]
[sighs]
[man 2] Is it clear?
-[man 1] Yup, good. Mark it. -[man 2] Okay. Tom Kim, take one.
Gonna have you read a few audio lines to this camera.
Okay.
[man 1] Make it,
earn it, win it, prove it.
What was it again?
-[man 1] Make it. -[Tom] Make it.
-[man 1] Earn it. -Earn it.
-[man 1] Win it. -Win it.
-[man 1] Prove it. -Oh gosh.
[man 1] Yeah.
So, it's make it, earn it,
prove it…
[man 1] Win it, prove it.
Make it, earn it, prove it, and win it.
[laughing]
-[man 1] Three out of four. -[laughs] Was that near?
Was that kinda close?
-[man 1] Make it. -Make it, earn it, prove it.
-[man 1] Win it. -Okay. What'd I miss?
[man 3] Win it, prove it. It's win it, prove it.
[man 1] Make it, earn it…
-[man 3] You switched it. -Oh! Okay.
Make it, earn it, prove it, win it.
-[man 3 laughs] -Was that…
-[laughs] Was that… Was that mixing it? -Time to bring it.
Make it, earn it, win it, prove it.
-[man 1] One more time. -One more time?!
Oh my goodness! I think I should stick to my day job.
[laughter]
-[male fan] Win some money. -[boy] I don't need your signature.
Can you go down and call Rory McIlroy for me, and tell him to come up here?
Did you guys get that?
-[interviewer] Do you wanna do the slate? -Yeah.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Bradford Wilson] In just two months, Tom Kim went from, "Who is that?"
to a literal global superstar.
-[announcer 1] Coming up, Tom Kim. -[announcer 2] Tom Kim.
-[announcer 3] Tom Kim. -[announcer 4] Got it!
Two wins in his last four PGA TOUR starts. Pretty impressive.
He has taken the world by storm.
[Amanda Balionis] Tom Kim has been a professional since he was 15 years old.
He's the first player since Tiger Woods to win twice before the age of 21.
[announcer 5] We have this tournament's youngest winner of all time.
[Sean Foley] You could argue
there's hardly ever been a better 20-year-old than Tom Kim.
He's a generational talent.
[announcer 6] A golf swing like it fell out of heaven.
-[cheering] -Yeah!
[announcer 7] Look at this 20-year-old!
He's extremely talented.
He's such a big personality in our game
that looks like he's going to break so many records.
[announcer 8] Tom Kim has arrived.
Tom Kim is the one everyone's looking at this year.
He won a tournament as a teenager on the PGA TOUR.
That's gonna happen.
[announcer 9] He has the potential to be a global superstar.
[Dan Rapaport] But that also means there's expectations
for Tom Kim to keep winning.
And those expectations, it can be too much for a 20-year-old to handle.
[Tom] I always knew I belonged,
but there are always doubts.
"Gosh! Am I good enough?"
[man 2] Make it, earn it, win it, prove it.
[Tom] Make it, earn it, win it…
[distant seagulls crying]
[birds singing]
-[man] How are you doin'? -How's it goin'?
-What's the last name? -[Tom] Kim.
My name is Tom Kim.
I'm 20 years old,
and I'm a professional golfer.
Oh…
Last year, I didn't have status at all on tour until the end of the season.
[guard] Kim?
[Tom] But this year for me, it's gonna be important to show everyone what I can do
and compete at the best stage.
This is the funny thing with experience.
I feel like I don't know my way around the clubhouse sometimes.
[chuckles]
[indistinct chatter]
[Tom] Uh-oh, wrong way.
I've always felt like, "Man, I am the youngest out here."
Then, once I got on the PGA TOUR, I started seeing all these guys.
You know, you see Rory hitting, you know, 380-yard drives.
I play with Scottie a lot. His ball-striking, it's unlike any other.
If I go for advice, I go to Jordan a lot. JT, I've asked JT a lot of stuff.
I didn't have a lot of friends growing up, so I'm excited to be around those guys.
-[Justin Thomas] You ever play this hole? -[Tom] First time, first time.
-[Justin] Wow! -[Tom] First time.
-Use a driver from this tee? -A driver or 3-wood.
-You could hit either one. -[tapping]
You're up, Tom.
[tapping continues]
He's too nice. I can't even give him shit.
[Dan Rapaport] Tom has a lot to learn
about what it's really like to be on the PGA TOUR.
[strikes ball]
That was his big swing.
-[Max] Is that your "go hard"? -[Tom] Kind of, yeah.
[Dan] Golf is funny because you spend all this time around your competitors.
These guys all play practice rounds together,
and it's definitely friendly.
-You only do that sometimes. -To hit it hard, what do you do?
-Swing it harder. -Just swing it harder.
-That is what you need to know. -[laughs]
[Dan] But when you spend this time, it's like they're trying to suss you out.
What is this guy about?
What is he made of? What kind of competitor is he?
You tried to hit it close. [chuckles]
[Dan] Tom has to realize he is really swimming with sharks out here.
[Justin] You have friendships before the first tee time,
but as soon as that tournament starts,
it's just me versus you,
and I just… I just wanna beat you. That's it.
[caddie] Oh wow!
-Hell yeah! -Fantastic.
I know that if I'm at my ceiling,
that I will beat anybody.
Just stay out of my way.
[Tom] I came to the course.
-They have dinner here? -[Jordan] Yeah.
Did you just go in and order in the locker room?
[Tom] Yeah. They had peanut butter and, like, jam.
-[Jordan] Probably for the kids. -[Tom chuckles]
-[Jordan] Which I guess includes you. -[Tom] Yeah. Wow!
[chuckles] Wow, okay.
[Jordan] There's, like, my… my 15-month-old, Rickie's 15-month-old,
and Tom Kim just sitting crisscross applesauce, eating PB&Js.
[Tom chuckles]
There's a lot of jokes about me being 12 years old,
and I just wanna be taken seriously,
and I need to prove that I can beat these guys.
-[Justin] Good job, everybody. -Thanks.
Hey, man. That was fun.
-Hey, Tom. -[Tom] See ya.
[Sean] You know, Tom is hard on himself.
I've seen him do that because he is very competitive.
He knows he can win on any golf course in the world,
but I think those players at the highest level,
they only respect winning a major,
and so Tom Kim has a lot to prove.
-[man] Can you show us around, please? -[Tom] Sure.
[man] What's this?
[Tom] So, this is a cooler.
So, when I get lazy, obviously.
I'm a little heavy.
[cooler screeches]
[Tom] Ow!
So, this is perfect. Obviously, you know, no need to walk, uh, ten yards.
Open the fridge, get something to eat,
and then off…
[cooler screeches]
we… go.
[cooler screeches]
[man] What's the, uh, story behind this?
[Tom] So, I got this as a gift.
I nicknamed myself Thomas, and my parents always told me how much I loved the show.
I always had, you know, Thomas in my hand, apparently,
when I was… when I was a young kid.
[soft piano music playing]
[Tom] I was born in Seoul, South Korea.
My dad and my brother would go out to the golf course.
I loved riding the golf cart.
And then it transitioned to… I started chipping and putting,
and naturally started to play golf.
This is my first World Golf Ranking win, this small trophy right here.
I turned professional at the age of 15 on the Asian Tour.
I never really had thoughts of playing college golf.
The main goal was to play on the PGA TOUR.
I thought once I got to the PGA TOUR, I'd succeeded in life. I'm done.
But it's actually once I got here, it was like, "Man, I want more."
[Tom] I want to win a major championship,
and the Masters is my first chance to win.
[hip-hop music playing]
[Tom] This is a welcome to the Masters.
And we missed a turn.
Very good there, Tom. Lovely.
[phone rings]
[Tom] Let's decline.
-[chuckles] -[woman] Oh no!
It's just my mom.
Yeah, she's probably just asking where I'm at. Just checking in.
Saw her last night, but I have a very loving mother where she…
She cares about me a lot. So it's kind of nice.
[chuckles softly]
All right, are we ready for this?
The best… drive in golf, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go.
[dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] It always is a massive leap forward
into your career if you can prove that you are good enough
to win a major championship.
Winning the Masters, though, takes you into a different stratosphere,
especially if you are young and can accomplish this feat.
[announcer 1] And there is your new Masters champion.
Youngest ever! Jack Nicklaus!
[Dan] Jack Nicklaus won the Masters for the first time when he was 23.
[announcer 2] There it is! A win for the ages!
[Dan] Tiger won the Masters by 12 shots when he was 21.
[cheering]
[announcer 3] One of the epic performances!
[Dan] And Jordan Spieth also won the Masters at 21 years old.
Normally, there's not that many expectations surrounding a guy
as he's just getting adjusted to life on tour.
But, in reality, this is the age when guys set themselves apart.
[Tom] Here's a question. Where can I get sandwiches?
[man] The player area over by the main clubhouse.
-Is it open now? -Yeah.
[Tom] Oh, awesome.
Appreciate that. Thank you.
-How are you? -Welcome.
[Tom] Thank you.
Hi. I'm just trying to get to the… player lounge.
-Player lounge. Just take a… -Right here?
Hi. Is this the players' lounge?
Oh, there we go.
Huh! I wonder…
'Cause this is a champion's locker. I wonder if it's actually…
[man 1] Champions?
Yeah, I… I'm just… Yeah, I'm not…
-[man 1] The regular locker room? -Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think I'm allowed to be here. [laughs]
This is, like, against the rule, actually.
I'm just trying to go eat.
-[man 2] I'll take you there. -[Tom] All right. Perfect.
Don't think I was allowed up there.
I'll have a pimento cheese. Yeah, appreciate that. Thank you.
Take this from you.
I ordered a pimento cheese.
You gotta get it at Augusta. Yeah, it's like…
I think it's just a tradition. Um…
Probably not the best thing I should eat.
My trainer's not gonna be happy, but…
[sniffs] …it's all right.
Hey, come here. I gotta show you something.
What's up?
You see… you see what all these cards say?
[Tom] Oh God!
-Oh God! -[laughter]
-[laughs loudly] -All right, winner.
You're the worst. You're the worst.
I'm gonna get out of your parking spot.
That's so good.
There's a thing called the monkey brain,
and it's always telling you to do the things that you shouldn't,
especially with cravings.
Like, I'm a big foodie, obviously,
but it's just the monkey always telling you
to have the McFlurry or this and that.
I hate my monkey brain because it definitely tells…
'Cause you can almost taste the ice cream, or the chocolate, or whatever it is.
[dramatic music playing]
[announcer 1] Good morning from the Augusta National Golf Club.
[announcer 2] It's Sunday, Easter Sunday. The 87th playing of the Masters.
[spectators chatting]
I missed ya, Joey.
-[Joey] You missed me? Aw. -I know. [chuckles]
I think Tom has shown that he has a chance to be great.
But I think it does add pressure.
You have certain expectations put on you, you have the ones on yourself,
and then you have to go out and play golf.
And so what happens from here, we don't know.
[Dan] When you've won twice on the PGA TOUR at such a young age,
it's easy to just think
that the next thing that's gonna happen is major championship success.
You don't know any better.
All you've experienced in your young career
is success and winning.
[Tom] I'm not gonna lie. It's so hard not to get aggressive right now.
[Joe] Dude, if you start it at that tower, the wind's gonna move it,
it's gonna spin right,
and we're gonna have six or eight feet from the left of it.
[announcer 1] Here's Tom Kim.
He's impressed a lot of folks this week.
He's only 20 years old.
He is younger than eight of the top ten
in the world amateur rankings.
This is for par.
No!
This is for bogey.
[applause]
[announcer 2] Not the start he wanted.
Tom Kim. Last year, he performed at such a high level.
[announcer 3] This for birdie at the seventh.
[dramatic music playing]
[applause]
[announcer 3] He didn't seem happy. He wanted to be in the mix of it.
[applause continues]
[Tom] You're 16th at your first Masters.
It's… it's a great week, but it wasn't really the result that I was looking for.
I had so much expectations going into the week.
And this is not gonna change anything. I need to get better.
-[Joe] See ya. -You know what's funny?
Like you said, it's my best finish since Amex,
but it doesn't feel like it.
-It's so weird. -Well played. Well played.
Just go enjoy it.
It can be difficult to see
a really good player be so hard on themselves,
especially such a young player.
Bye, guys. See ya.
[Dan] A finish like this for a young player
can be a huge point of inflection.
The question is, which way will it take him?
[pensive music playing]
[golf cart screeches]
[Tom] After playing the Masters for the first time,
I think I have more of a clear picture of what I need to get done
before I get ready for the next major.
All my schedule around golf is just making sure
that I get enough practice and I get ready for a tournament.
This is a pretty good range session.
Did you eat?
[Ben] I need to leave in three minutes.
It's so packed, I don't even have time to respond to texts and stuff.
Take that rest day tomorrow.
[Tom] I still have to practice and book tickets.
[chuckles] I ain't gettin' on the plane.
-Sounds like a you problem. -You're an asshole.
[Ben] The thing about assholes is everybody needs one.
-[laughs] -That was… that was not clean.
-[Ben] Wheels up. -[Tom] Let's roll.
[man] Let's see just a few styles on you.
This is some tech.
-I wish I had a mirror-- -[woman] Oh yeah.
-[man] Yeah. -[Tom] How nerdy do I look?
[laughter]
[Tom] The PGA TOUR has been a complete transition
to a different life, a different world.
[in Korean] Hello!
I've been so busy.
[conversation in Korean]
[Tom] I have a lot more obligations.
-What time is it? -[Ben] A quarter to 12.
It's only been an hour?
-Oh boy. -[Tom laughs]
It's been hard learning managing my time, managing my practice schedule.
He has so many different roles and wears so many different hats,
on course, off course.
But that's part of success for first year on the PGA TOUR.
-[camera clicking] -[speaking Korean]
[Dylan Dethier] Overnight success as a young guy
that suddenly has a lot of people that want his time and attention…
it's awesome.
It's also very tricky.
[Dan] There's more demands on your time, and I think it's important,
when guys get all this attention, to not be starry-eyed and wide-eyed
and say yes to every media opportunity or every interview that you have.
-You have to keep the focus on golf. -[Ben] Thanks, everybody.
[in Korean] Thank you.
Jeez, it's been packed. I have not stopped.
You know, the GQ people were telling me about, like…
This is like celebrity schedule, you know? I'm like, "I'm a golfer."
We're supposed to be practicing and do nothing.
[Dylan] In golf, everything is leveraged on your play.
So, it's all good as long as you keep playing to the level
that you're currently at and that you are projected to be at.
[Tom yawns loudly]
-Dude, I'm so tired. -I know. [laughs]
[Dylan] There's a lot coming at Tom Kim.
And yeah, the pressure's on to keep it rolling.
[dramatic music playing]
[announcer] Major championship golf has returned to Western New York.
Today, it's first-round coverage live from Oak Hill Country Club.
[fans shouting]
[strikes ball]
It's a good… It's a big boy golf course.
[strikes ball]
You guys need to stop having a camera under…
a camera, like, below me, because how fat…
My face just looks like this.
-[woman] No, it does not. -You guys need to be above me.
[indistinct background conversation]
[woman] You have a nice face.
Appreciate that. Not a lot of ladies have told me so far.
-[woman] What?! -Yup.
[woman] Nah, I bet you have a big ladies' following.
You sure? Doesn't seem like it.
When people are seeing this,
just hit me up.
I'm available.
Oh man, I screwed up my ball!
[starter] Now on the first tee, from the Republic of Korea, Tom Kim!
[applause]
[suspenseful music playing]
[announcer 1] This guy is gonna win major championships.
[announcer 2] He's 20 years old.
Interesting with him, he looks like such a powerful young man.
His distance off the tee is sort of middle of the pack.
[announcer 1] That's a little bit of a bad break.
He'll have to make that for par.
Tom Kim at six.
-[announcer 2] That's not… -[announcer 1] Not good. In the mud.
[Tom groans]
-Tom Kim, oh no! -Oh jeez! Oh no!
-[announcer 2 laughs] -[announcer 1] Oh no.
-[announcer 2] Oh, it's all gone wrong. -[announcer 1] Oh no!
[announcer 2] Oh, that's…
-What… -[announcer 1] What in the world?
[announcer 2] What?
-Oh-- -Don't do it again!
[announcer 2] No!
-What does he have to lose? -It's fine at this point.
[laughter]
-Maybe just-- -Take a bath!
…go into the creek, wash it off.
[announcer 3] It's safe to say that everyone with us
is rooting with all their heart for this man. [chuckles]
[announcer 1] Yup.
[reporter 1] There was an embarrassing moment on the course for Tom Kim.
[reporter 2] This is Tom Kim, Kim getting a bit of a mud bath.
[reporter 3] He thought it was a good idea,
trying to save that stroke going into the mud,
but when he got in there, he said it was a very dark place.
That's where he went.
[Rory] He's not a typical golfer.
I think when people think about the best players in the world,
I feel like they want them to fit into a certain type of mold,
but it's not something that I would do.
[Jordan] I see the video after we were done
of him actually going in there.
I don't know what his plan was, but, uh, clearly it didn't work out.
-[man] I heard you'd fallen in the creek. -I sunk in.
We looked… We looked at it. It's like murk.
-Did they bring him a change of clothes? -[Joe] No, he washed off in the creek.
Laced a 2-iron up on the fringe, and two-putted, and got out of there.
-[chuckles] -What a legend.
-Hey, Tom. -[Tom] Hey.
-Did you have a shower? -[Tom] God, you saw it too?
[Rickie Fowler] Attaboy.
Lookin' good, lookin' good.
-Did you see that? -[Rickie] That's why we're--
[Tony Finau] They told me about it.
[Tom] The worst thing? I couldn't even find my ball.
You went in there and couldn't even find it?
-[Tom] Couldn't find it. Could've dropped. -You're crazy, bro.
[Tom] It's been a very big learning curve for me. It's very, very frustrating.
[car horn beeps]
[Dan] For Tom, this can go one of two ways.
He can be known as the lovable, affable guy
who went frolicking in the mud and gave everyone on the Internet a laugh,
or he can rededicate himself to becoming one of the best golfers on the planet.
[inhales deeply] I haven't played in two days.
-[coach chuckles] -Feels weird.
-[laughs] -[coach] How's the alignment feel?
So, if I'm aiming at the green pin, it felt like I was aiming at the carton.
-Got ya. -So it's…
Yeah, yeah. So, you go to the top and stop.
See, the big thing for you is to make sure that this doesn't work up in transition.
[Tom] I've always had a great understanding of my golf swing.
But focusing more on, like, trying to score and trying to adjust,
like, you kind of get into, like, bad spots.
And I reached out to Chris.
I felt like I kind of needed someone to help me just understand it more.
I feel like this year, the golf course has changed for me so much,
compared to where I've played before.
The short-side misses are way worse than what it used to be.
If I would miss it left in a bunker, it'd still be kind of doable.
You always had a good lie uphill.
Now it's like if you go in that bunker on the PGA TOUR, you're dead.
-[Chris] Yeah. -It's a bogey.
And I've been making so many mistakes.
[Chris] Golf's a tough game. It's fickle. It's easy to get into these little funks.
And it can seem like you're going to never get out of it.
Then you put more pressure on yourself 'cause you know what you're capable of,
and it's trying to unravel this knot that's way more complicated
than just saying, "Hey, man, you gotta believe in yourself."
It oftentimes becomes this little puzzle
that a player and their team have to try to figure out.
It's a double-edged sword because I think you're…
"The perfectionism" is part of why you work so hard.
It's part of just the precision you're seeking.
But you want to have the perfectionism be more about, like, the process.
Yeah. I dunno.
It's like I feel like I don't really care about the process sometimes.
I just want to hit it close.
-[Chris] The outcome? -Yeah.
[Chris] This kid could be number one player in the world.
He's got that game.
He's got the focus. He's got the work ethic.
It just needs to, like, come out.
You know, I think getting away from such a tied-to-the-outcome type of mindset
to more of that process, that is part of the maturity.
You talk about Tiger. I mean, he was so into the process.
Yeah.
No, that's…
that's why he's the best, right?
[strikes ball]
[Chris] That was beautiful.
[bird squawks]
[announcer] The most eagerly anticipated day of the golfing calendar.
Welcome to Royal Liverpool and the first day of the 151st Open.
[dramatic music playing]
Good to see you, sir. Have a good day.
You can call me Mr. Royal Liverpool now.
[man shouts] Rory!
The Open Championship is steeped in tradition,
and one that golfers from around the world want to win.
-I went to Italy after for a couple weeks. -Right.
Did he really?
Rickie, good luck.
[chuckles] Did you hear what he said?
I said, "Will it be bad if I took off my shirt and started cleaning myself?"
He said, "You've already done that." [chuckles]
Flashback.
Maybe they're showing the… me in the mud right now.
[announcer 1] So we begin the final major challenge of the year.
It can be baffling at times, especially for the uninitiated.
[announcer 2] Tom Kim really only started his journey into the spotlight a year ago.
[Dan] The Open is Tom Kim's last chance this year
to prove that he has what it takes to compete
against the best players in the world on the biggest stages.
There's no doubt that Tom has made an impact
with how he's played over the last year.
[announcer 3] It's at the back of the green, hanging on by a thimble.
But his results in the major championship have not been as good
as you might expect for someone with that kind of ability.
-[spectators groan] -[announcer 3] Went early.
It did swing a lot, didn't it?
So, it's a three-putt bogey for Tom Kim.
[applause]
[announcer 4] Tom Kim. Can he convert?
[applause]
[announcer 4] Not a great round, but it's a nice finish.
And the one thing we know for sure, Tom Kim will come out fighting tomorrow.
[Tom] The way I played today was just a grind, so I am just mentally so drained.
[indistinct chatter]
[Ben] Tom, for some reason, believes that he's less talented maybe than others.
I would beg to differ.
But, as I tell him,
hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
I have dedicated everything just to golf, and I still do.
And it is the last major of the year,
and I know what I'm capable of.
Up you come. We'll have a look at things together.
Can you tell us what happened, Tom?
[Tom] Where I'm staying, they have this patio.
And my foot got caught, and it slipped, and it popped.
So, it will be helpful to have a look with imaging just to see what we can see.
[man] This is the talus. That's the fibula.
This is the origin of the ATFL,
and I think you've got a tear of the ATFL there.
[sighs]
[man] Pretty much a grade three tear.
[Tom] A grade three tear?
[man] Yeah, so it's a complete tear of the three.
-So that's where it really hurts. -Ow!
Yeah. Oh!
I am just so frustrated.
I feel like I'm ready. I had one bad round.
But I feel like if I just have more rounds, I can play well.
And this is my last major.
I do not wanna go back to the US, stay on my couch
and not be able to do anything.
I just don't wanna do that.
So, Tom, what we have the ability to do now is it can be strapped up.
[Sean] Injuries are tricky, right?
It's tough to tell a guy who does this for a living,
and does it as his passion, that he has to wait to do it.
[Tom groans]
[Sean] But the problem is the mechanics and the movement and the demand
is just going to continue to injure that place.
So you gotta be careful how you're gonna really handle that.
[starter] On the tee, from Korea, Tom Kim.
[applause]
[dramatic music playing]
[announcer 1] Tom Kim, playing through injury.
[applause]
[announcer 1] The team around him said just try to gut it out,
which you rarely hear anymore.
Birdie at four.
To get to two-over,
and well done.
[applause]
[announcer 1] Now, Kim to get it to one-over.
[applause]
[announcer 2] Looks like he's struggling a little bit with his walk.
[announcer 1] For birdie at the eighth.
He's got it going today.
[Joe] They always say, "Beware of the sick or injured golfer,"
because you're thinking so much about that that you're not thinking as much
about what happens if I make bogey.
It can take the expectations and the worries about the golf off.
When you play through an injury and make the injury worse
where you're gonna miss time,
you're reducing the number of events you'll get the following year.
So it has a huge impact on your ability to keep your PGA TOUR card.
[announcer 1] Third-round coverage at the 151st playing of the Open.
[announcer 2] Tom Kim.
He's up six shots better yesterday than the day before.
Really turned it around nicely.
With Tom Kim, since he came out on tour,
his character has always been this fun-loving,
funny, super talented young kid.
Well, now at the Open, we found out
that actually he's a super gritty young kid as well.
[announcer 2] In it goes for Tom Kim.
[Henni] And I think that was where you really saw his mental strength.
It's almost Tiger-style, playing on such an injury.
[cheering]
[Bradford] I don't want to hear that golfers aren't tough.
Like, if I get a cold, I'm out four to six weeks.
So to play through an ankle injury, that's gotta earn you respect,
not only from the people watching, but from your peers.
-[cheering] -[announcer 3] Beautifully holed.
He's got something, this young man, hasn't he?
[applause]
[indistinct background chatter]
Doin' all right, buddy?
Oh, he's got his headphones in.
[man] Good work today, bud.
-Is it going to rain all day? -Yeah.
Fuck around.
This year has been, uh, definitely a big learning curve.
I think dealing with adversity, expectations
helped so much.
And I'm playing with just that confidence I have in myself.
[Ben] You good?
Now we're good.
I mean, I am the youngest guy, but gosh, I can compete out here.
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct shouting]
♪ This is the final round ♪
♪ Enter the battleground ♪
♪ Ooh! ♪
♪ Warriors all around… ♪
[male fan] Great, Tommy lad!
[announcer 1] This is an eagle attempt for Tom Kim,
who's been, uh, gutting this Open out.
[cheering]
♪ On your feet… ♪
[announcer 1] Rally cap on for Tom Kim.
He's at four-under.
♪ No defeat ♪
♪ Enter the battleground… ♪
[announcer 2] I just love watching this young man play.
♪ Ooh! ♪
♪ Hear my sacred vow… ♪
[announcer 2] He's got some skill!
♪ Ain't gonna stop me now ♪
♪ This is the final round ♪
[applause]
♪ This is the final round… ♪
[announcer 2] He's having a good day out there.
[indistinct background chatter]
[Tom] Man, I've come so far from day one, you know?
I… I was in a hundred-something place,
and now I'm, you know, inside the top ten of a major championship.
-[man 1] He's goin' for it? -[man 2] Yup.
-[Joe] Where are you aiming it? -Hard.
[Joe] Yup. Perfect.
-It's the right one, bud. -It's never more.
-It's just a comfortable stock, right? -It's just a nice, solid stock, bud.
[spectators murmuring]
[pensive music playing]
[applause]
[announcer 1] Only the eighth major start of his young career.
[announcer 3] He is really fun to watch, isn't he?
-[announcer 1] Oh, yeah. -[announcer 3] A lot of personality.
[announcer 1] He really came back.
He was in a tie for 89th, and then look what he did.
[announcer 3] It's gonna go a long way to boosting his confidence.
[applause]
♪ This is the day… ♪
-[fans shouting excitedly] -[Tom] Appreciate it. Thank you.
Goin' to the stairs, signing my scorecard, that was, for me, it's flashbacks
of working hard late at night, early mornings.
All those long, long hours that I've always enjoyed,
but at the same time were still hard.
-Thanks for grinding, Joey. -Yeah, of course, bro. Nice playing.
We're in for a nice weekend, I hear.
Tom put on a… a heck of a performance, and I think that that just solidified
that he believes that he has that… that capability
to go out and, even at not 100%,
be able to contend in the world's biggest tournaments.
[Tom groans]
♪ This is the day when you'll shine… ♪
[Tom] Having my best finish in a major was just very, very satisfying.
It was just a lot of… a lot of relief.
I think I've done this three times in the last… three days.
I'm pretty sure you guys have enough footage of it. [laughs]
And I've learned more about myself mentally
of where I need to be
to be one of the best players in the world.
All the guys you see in the Hall of Fame, they have gone through the same path.
They went through failures, they went through tough times
to be able to achieve what they want to achieve.
At the highest level of the game,
where only the fittest survive,
Tom Kim proved, playing with that injury,
he's really as good as any player out there.
-[Tom] Bye, guys! -[man] See you later. All the best.
[Sean] And I think that the greats are going to be watching him
because I just think that game recognizes game.
[announcer 1] Everybody surrounding that 18th green now.
Just two men out there playing this final day
of the Shriners Children's Open.
Tom Kim with a two-shot lead.
[announcer 2] And now Tom Kim has gone back-to-back in the desert!
[cheering]
[Joe] I think this year definitely shows that, hey,
this is an elite player, especially somebody with Tom's résumé.
He kind of backed up everything that people thought.
[Chris] To be that good at that age is… is pretty special,
and you can just tell this guy's got some big goals,
and he's on the trajectory to reach them.
[man] There you go, Tom!
[reporter] So, last year, you won at 20, this year, you win at 21 in Vegas.
What's the celebration gonna be like?
I'm gonna finish a piece of chocolate that I wanted to finish,
so I'm gonna do that.
And then I'm gonna order room service, and I'm gonna go to bed.
-[reporter] There you go. -Gonna be exciting.
Can't wait to finish that chocolate. I've wanted to finish it so bad. [laughs]
Thanks for staying. I appreciate it.
[Henni] With Tom Kim, we're still learning
about his mindset and what's important to him.
But one thing we do know is we're going to get an insight into that,
because he's being himself out there, and we love him for it.
[Tom] Yeah.
I don't really like to be entitled to things.
It's just… you know, I'm Tom Kim
and I'm living my dream playing on the PGA TOUR.
I work really hard, and I just try my best every day to get better.
[cheering]
[announcer 1] Matthew Fitzpatrick is a champion at the Country Club!
[announcer 2] Matt Fitzpatrick of England!
-[cheering] -[Dan] Life's different for Matt.
-He's one of the best in the world. -I wanna keep it forever.
[Dan] Alex is the younger brother.
He's going to Europe to try and move his way up the professional golf ladder.
[announcer 3] For birdie at 17.
[Alex] I play in a thing called the Challenge Tour.
It's just a grind, you know. You don't wanna be on it.
Being Matt's brother is great and… annoying.
Matt has a lot of things, if not all the things, that I would like.
Definitely jealous. That is a no-brainer, yeah.
[Dan] You wanna be living the life your brother's living.
[Alex] It is a goal to get out of Matt's shadow.
Whether or not it's actually doable, I don't know.
[announcer 4] For Alex!
What a great shot.
[dramatic music playing]
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