Golf Special Report: Anthony Kim withdrew from the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
If we make a list of top 2010 golfers to party with, then Anthony Kim may make it to the top of the list due to his recent partying in Las Vegas.
The twenty five year old is an American national and holds 3 PGA Tour wins and 4 professional wins in total. According to Ernie Elis, he’s a fearless person. Phil Mickelson described him as a funny dude, while Jim Furyk portrays Kim as a person who is comfortable
in his own skin.
Now this fearless golfer, the twenty five year old fun guy has given the critics an image one notch above the previously stated names. Anthony Kim is now known to be a golfer party animal.
According to the latest reports, Anthony Kim is now regarded as a ‘Loose cannon’ after he spent one night before the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open gambling and partying. The twenty five year old is said to have spent a wild night
at the Jet nightclub at The Mirage.
Usually an athlete going out and partying doesn’t make it to the headlines that much, but when an athlete does it two times and then backs out of the event he was due to play at the eleventh hour, then that’s one burning headline.
The Dallas resident had been working to improve his image for quite some time which had been previously tainted by the remarks of Robert Allenby. Previously in the year 2009, Allenby told that Anthony Kim had been up all night drinking till dawn- approximately
4 a.m. which was no big deal had it not been a night before a match.
Allenby however apologized for his remarks about Kim’s behaviour but the damage had already been caused.
In 2010 alone, Kim won the Shell Houston Open, came second at The Honda Classic and third at the Masters Tournament. He held fourth place in the 2008 FedEx Cup standing and has collected 10 cuts out of the 14 events he played.
A Las Vegas Review-Journal said Kim's engaged in loud partying earlier this week at a Vegas hotel. He reportedly was told to quiet down, and that he was seen on the dance floor spraying Champaign from a $25,000 bottle of Dom Perignon.
With the conflicting statements arising from various sources, it’s hard to decipher what to make of Kim’s behaviour. Kim withdrew from the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open supposedly because of a reaggravation of a thumb injury– perhaps
suffered opening champagne bottles!
According to rumours, Kim backed out because of his loose cannon behaviour at the club, a night before the match. According to his rep, it was because of his thumb injury. He stated that AK’s incident at the Bellagio and his pull out from the competition
are two different things and have no connection whatsoever with each other.
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