Anthony Kim Working On New Instruction Piece: How You Can Win A Presidents Cup Match 5&3 Staying Out Until 4 A.M.
I just hope there's a nice pictorial spread of this, from a "Golfweek staff" report about Kim's week in San Francisco, capped off by a drumming of Robert Allenby (who clearly was too chummy with Kim's teammates):
Maybe we should all take the theory of Anthony Kim,” Allenby said. “Get home at 4 o’clock (in the morning) and then go shoot 6 under.”
Asked if his comments were on the record, Allenby said, “I don’t care. Ask his playing partners. Ask his team. He is the loosest cannon in that team.”
Allenby went on to call the 24-year-old Kim golf’s “current John Daly.”
And who said there's no hostility between the Presidents Cup teams?
Said Kim, “He said that today? Wow. That’s pretty surprising. . . . I hope that was a joke.”
Told it was not, Kim added, “I’m actually pretty surprised that he said that. I was in tip-top shape coming into today. When you get sat out in a match (as Kim did Saturday morning in foursomes), you’re out there to prove a point.”
Kim also called untrue a report that he’d been asked to leave a U.S. team function earlier in the week, saying he had left the team room and returned to his own room because he was sweating and did not feel well. But a U.S. player who asked not to be identified told Golfweek that U.S. captain Fred Couples told Kim in the team room one evening to either be more presentable or go back to his room.
What did he do, show up naked? Was he cross-dressing? Wearing t-shirt that read, "I voted for Barack Obama?" What?
Team members also said Couples at one point sent two members to Kim’s room to ask him to come join the others in the team room.
Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.
“Somebody went up to the room and got him, and he came down and had a blast,” Couples said. “He’s so much younger (24) than everybody else. He certainly doesn’t want to hang around with Kenny Perry and me.
“I just told him, ‘You know, it’s just the team room. Come on and eat and go home.’ I don’t expect him to sit and talk to the wives. . . . He was good. It took a day. That’s all it took. We picked on him a little bit and then I decided with Michael (Jordan, an assistant captain). Michael said, ‘Just let him go, and he’ll come back to you.’ ”
Just your every day, run of the mill team event!
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Reader Comments (27)
Did anyone else catch AK giving Cabrerra a high five when he birdied 16 (or whatever number it was for the week). Guy doesn't seem like a total DB. Maybe he parties hard now, but he's young and rich. Read up on Phil's younger days before he became the aw shucks family man. He was a degenerate gambler back then.
@ The O...... my understanding is that Phil is still quite the gambler. Whats the old saying? A leopard doesn't change its spots. Possibly that applies to AK as well.
@cardinal, That was my reaction to the opening ceremonies too.
Given how Allenby putted yesterday I'd have guessed it was him who was standing on shaky ground.
Just wonder if Sandy Tatum has ever played golf in Scotland in winter?Probably the worst GS headline I've ever read!
Hopefully, Pavin will pick up on this and appoint MJ vice-captain, or even co-captain, for the RC.
Anthony Kim gets sat down during this Tourney, then gets his chance to play again and he wins and plays well. Why isn't that the story?
Tiger Woods goes 5-0 and finally takes a leadership role during these team events. Why isn't that more of a story.
People actually like playing with and being around Phil and he really played well. Amy even popped in the see him and pump up the team. But instead of talking about this, some people (I don't recall which ones) talk trash about the uniforms the wives wore. Once again, why isn't that a good thing. They show support for their husbands and their country. Last time I looked millions of fans and supporters of football and baseball players buy and wear their teams and favorite players jerseys.
I don't blast the 3-1-0 Kim (I think that was his record) and I don't call the whole tournament a farce. Frankly, I really enjoyed it. I thought the course looked good and the play was solid. Tim Clark was amazing, Ryo was solid, YE Yang was...well...entertaining...heck he even almost hit Tiger with a sandshot that was WAY off line. And of course, many Americans played well. Stricker even stole the show from Tiger on Saturday...and Tiger played well. Man, Willie Park was right..."a man who can putt is a match for anyone"
Have a good night y'all!!!
Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the FA Cup Final after spending the previous evening down the pub.
I guess a 24-year-old can make this choice and, despite his performance on the course, be chastised and reprieved, and feel chastened or not by the experience. If it's youthful folly then he will be excused after all the media flurry and his behavior added to his stats. Should it turn out to be habitual then he'll need a mentor come the Ryder Cup...how about JT?
My best golf is usually accompanied by awful indigestion; the times i've tried to play hungover, half cut, baked or powdered, i can barely stand up, the arms flail like broken windmills, followed by a twisting lurch as my hips attempt to catch up with the rest of the body.
Golf: It's great when you're straight!
I'm no tea-toter and loooove a cold beer before/during/after a round, on occasion, or even a Southside or few, but a concerning pattern of events is starting to develop with this kid.
He openly talks about conducting his rookie campaign in a hungover haze, then claims that's behind him. Second year off the charts. Slides back a bit this year but hey, it's golf.
Now this?
I kind of doubt Robert made up the 4am stuff, and given that Anthony lied about being asked to leave the team room, I'm kind of inclined to believe the 4am stuff. Wasn't "presentable", that mean he was too drunk? Fellow teamates are clearly talking to the press behind his back, he must have really pissed off some of them. And then for Allenby to invoke the John Daly Clause, whooooaa....
It's one thing to burn it at both ends when it's just you at an event but I think a team event requires a bit of a different approach. Again, teamates throwing him under bus to press.
Something's wrong here.