The leaderboard at the 2025 PGA Championship kinda looks like someone hit "shuffle" on a playlist. I mean, I'm not mad about it, but you have to admit with quite a few of the usual suspects aka the big names in golf going home after some rather shocking lackluster rounds—it's been kinda weird to watch it all unfold.
I've been waiting patiently on someone, anyone to do something...special? Electric? That seems to be the general tone around this tournament specifically. The storylines have all sounded eerily similar. Quail's too familiar, Scottie's arrest was a year ago, and the Carolina mudballs...well, those just sound like a minor league baseball team.
So who's been the standout this week? It's kind of obvious—that Mr. Si Woo "Smoking Hot" Kim takes the baddie crown.
The 29-year-old took a page out of Charley Hull's book, indulging in a mid-round ciggy, and of course, we were all like "this guy rules". He told our Dan Rapaport, who asked Kim about his first round extracurricular to which he responded, “[I'm] Getting old and stressed.”
And you know what, hell yeah. Sometimes life is just like that, and we all have a vice that gets us through.
But hey, this is also that same guy that just broke his own record for longest ace in major history.
It's kind of insane to make an ace on a 252 yard par-3, it's even crazier to do so by breaking a record that you set.
Kim finds himself on the front page of the leaderboard (which also doesn't hurt is baddie status), but he's been putting this major on his back, providing us will incredible sound bites and meme worthy reactions.
I also just have to say, Si Woo (really Jordan Spieth, but it's Kim's name) provided me with one of my all-time favorite golf moments during the 2017 Presidents Cup.
"Si Woo—shaking that ass" are words that will live in infamy.
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