Anthony Kim’s opening round at LIV Chicago was a microcosm of his 2025 season as a whole.
Kim has struggled badly since joining LIV Golf at the start of the 2024 season as a ‘wildcard’ player.
He retired from competitive golf in 2012, and has endured his fair share of personal problems over the past decade or so.
So, when he returned to competitive golf in 2024, there was much anticipation regarding whether he would be able to rediscover his best form.
Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.
Kim worked hard during the off-season ahead of the 2025 LIV schedule, but his golf has still been very poor.
Before the start of the new season, Kim confidently predicted that he would contend at LIV events in 2025.
That prediction now looks as bad as the one Phil Mickelson made about Scottie Scheffler.
Kim’s first round in Chicago on Friday was difficult to watch, and it means that big questions now need to be asked of LIV.
Anthony Kim hits new low on LIV after disastrous first round in Chicago
Kim is sitting in dead-last position after day one at Bolingbrook Golf Club.
He failed to make a single birdie on Friday and ended up 11-over par, after being seven-over through just six holes.
The former Ryder Cup player’s game is incredibly inconsistent right now, and it’s difficult to find any positives from what he has shown on LIV Golf over the past 18 months.
Kim’s round of 11-over par 82 featured six bogeys, a double bogey and a triple bogey.
The 40-year-old is nowhere near the levels required to be playing on a professional tour right now.
His best finish this year was a tie for 25th in Dallas, and that in itself shows how poor his golf has been.
The Kim experiment has to stop. LIV needs to part ways with the three-time PGA Tour winner at the end of this season and bring in a younger player with a higher ceiling to replace him in 2026.
Anthony Kim’s LIV results in 2025
The 2025 season has been a real slog in general for Kim.
He has shot plenty of high numbers on LIV Golf this year and his first round in Chicago on Friday highlighted just how far off his game he is right now.
Here are Kim’s results from the 2025 season so far:
| Results | Kim’s totals |
| Events played | 11 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Top-10s | 0 |
| Top-25s | 1 |
| 50th or worse | 5 |
That 50th or worse category will turn into six for Kim this week, unless he posts two rounds in the 60s on Saturday and Sunday.
The 40-year-old is struggling badly with his game right now, and the fact that he’s under pressure to perform every single week on LIV is doing him no favours whatsoever.
And the same can be said for what Kim’s poor golf is doing to LIV’s reputation as well.
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