Tom Kim has experienced an incredibly difficult 2025 campaign on the PGA Tour, and his antics at the Presidents Cup last year may have been the root cause of his problems.
That’s what Rich Beem believes at least, after Kim missed out on qualifying for the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
The 2025 PGA Tour season has been a real slog for the 23-year-old, and he has now gone nearly two years without a win.
Kim’s PGA Tour season went from bad to worse at the Wyndham Championship, when he withdrew after his second round.
The South Korean ended up in 94th position in the FedEx Cup standings, and as a result he failed to make the field for the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis this week.
His struggles this season have been a huge surprise, considering how much of a key man he was for the International team at the Presidents Cup in 2024.
Kim sat out just one match at the Presidents Cup, but he only amassed 1.5 points throughout the week.
Rich Beem’s theory over what has caused Tom Kim’s PGA Tour struggles
Kim was one of the best and most consistent players on the PGA Tour during the two previous seasons before 2025.
So to see him drop off so drastically this year has been quite the shock.
What has caused Kim’s problems this season though? All departments of his game have regressed, but there must be an underlying reason as to why.
Beem was speaking on the Sky Sports Golf Podcast about the 2025 PGA Tour season so far.
He was asked about Kim’s struggles this season, and whether he has been surprised to see the 23-year-old regress so badly.
Beem said: “Tom hasn’t played very well since the Presidents Cup last year. I don’t know if how he played, or some of the antics that he had kind of backfired and he lost his confidence a bit because of that.“
Tom Kim’s game has regressed on the PGA Tour in 2025
It’s easy to see why Kim has struggled so badly this season, when looking over his stats on the PGA Tour from 2025.
| Stats | Kim’s 2025 rank |
| Strokes gained off the tee | 126th |
| Strokes gained approach | 53rd |
| Strokes gained around the green | 47th |
| Strokes gained scrambling | 104th |
| Strokes gained putting | 138th |
| Strokes gained total | 88th |
Kim has a lot of work to do throughout the off-season, if he is to rediscover his best form in 2026.
He is clearly going through a confidence crisis right now, and Beem might have a point, perhaps his overly boisterous antics at the Presidents Cup affected him in some way.
Kim is still very much a star of the future on the PGA Tour, but he now has to go back to the drawing board and remind himself of the things that made him so good in the first place.
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