Younger English novice star Kris Kim, who final yr turn into the fifth youngest-ever participant to make the lower in a PGA Tour occasion, has been revealed as the primary recipient of a brand new elite scholarship from the Wentworth Basis.
{The teenager}’s thrilling efficiency in final Could’s THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson wowed golf audiences around the globe, not least when he very practically made a hole-in-one throughout his third spherical.
However his maturity and promise had been evident within the novice sport earlier than then.
In an excellent 2023 marketing campaign he claimed victories within the prestigious Fairhaven Trophy and the R&A’s Boys Beginner Championship, he broke a course report when successful the bronze medal with England within the European Boys Crew Championship, and he received three and a half factors from 4 matches in a powerful European Junior Ryder Cup triumph.
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Beneath the phrases of the Wentworth Basis’s new elite scholarship, Kim may have entry to the three celebrated programs at Wentworth, along with the entire follow amenities together with the newly opened state-of-the-art Wentworth Golf Academy.
“I used to be so comfortable after I came upon concerning the scholarship,” mentioned Kim forward of an exhilarating fortnight by which he’ll make his senior debut for England and return to PGA Tour motion in THE CJ CUP.
“The thought of practising and taking part in at Wentworth on daily basis is so cool and it will likely be actually good for my sport. I attended the BMW PGA Championship there and spent most of my time following Rory McIlroy across the course or carefully watching the golfers on the vary.
“To assume that Rory is now a Masters champion and that I can be practising the place he and the remainder of the sphere did is simply superb.
“I wish to take my sport to the following degree and Wentworth is the place for me to realize that. I’m very excited and really grateful to everybody on the membership for making it occur.”
The Wentworth Basis was created in 1991 by the membership’s former head skilled, and now honorary member, Bernard Gallacher to assist aspiring younger golfers and tennis gamers within the space.
