Tom Kim can achieve something this week that Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and several other great players have never been able to do.
The next stop on the PGA Tour is the Shriners Children’s Open at the TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The field is not particularly strong but world number 25 Kim will be there, as well as other top 50 players Taylor Pendrith, Cameron Davis and Davis Thompson.
But all eyes will be on the South Korean as he attempts to make PGA Tour history. Here is what he needs to do.
Tom Kim can make PGA Tour history at Shriners Children’s Open
Tom Kim won the Shriners Children’s Open in 2022 and he retained his title this time last year.
This gives him the chance to become the first player to win the same PGA Tour event three seasons in a row since Steve Stricker at the John Deere Classic in 2011.
There have been many close calls since then, including Sam Burns’ sixth-place finish at the 2023 Valspar Championship and Scottie Scheffler’s third at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in February, but nobody has been able to do it.
What would make Kim’s potential achievement even more impressive is that he is only 22 years old and one would assume that he has not yet entered his prime.
But even if he develops into one of the top golfers on the planet, the chance of a three-peat may never come around again.
Which players have three-peated on the PGA Tour?
The list of players to have three-peated on the PGA Tour is not only small but it includes many of the all-time greats.
One of those players is obviously Tiger Woods, who did so an astonishing six times in his career.
In fact, Woods won two PGA Tour events four times in a row: the Arnold Palmer Invitational from 2000 to 2003 and the Farmers Insurance Open between 2005 and 2008.
Some other names on the list are Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Ben Hogan – true greats of the game.
If Kim were to join them on Sunday, it would be one of the stories of the season.
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