{"id":36896,"date":"2026-07-15T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:20:18","slug":"the-first-person-to-text-tom-kim-after-his-genesis-scottish-open-win-tiger-woods-golf-news-and-tour-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36896\/","title":{"rendered":"The first person to text Tom Kim after his Genesis Scottish Open win? Tiger Woods | Golf News and Tour Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a long wait for Tom Kim<\/a>. Over a thousand days since his last PGA Tour win and four years since he broke into the broader golf consciousness with a victory at The Renaissance Club. But on Sunday, Kim finally ended the winless drought with his second Genesis Scottish Open title, cementing himself as a British Open contender while also earning the attention of a fella by the name of Tiger Woods. Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of him.<\/p>\n

Following his win, Kim told reporters how much he had learned from picking Woods\u2019 brain while playing as Jupiter Links GC teammates on TGL. More importantly, Kim revealed that the first text he received following his two-stroke victory in Scotland wasn’t his mother, father, partner, agent or swing coach. It was the Big Cat himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously playing TGL, being on Tiger\u2019s team and being able to really ask him a lot of questions on certain things and he\u2019s been really helpful a lot of them time,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, this was my first win in three years and the first person that text me was Tiger Woods. It just shows you the type of person he is, how much he cares.<\/p>\n

Those people that have achieved so much, I\u2019ve been able to listen to their interviews, seeing how they talk and asking them advice. I\u2019ve kind of leaned into the best players in the world. Even on YouTube, just listening to them speaking in their interviews. I\u2019m really trying to pay attention to those things and really trying to blend it in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to be cynical about TGL, a made-for-TV product where players are not even expected to play every match. It\u2019s also easy to be disappointed by Tiger Woods, who found himself embroiled in controversy yet again after being arrested and charged with a DUI<\/a> in March following another car accident. But Kim\u2019s quotes on Sunday show there\u2019s still plenty of good to be found in both, competitively, personally and otherwise. And you can bet that if Kim pulls off the back-to-back next week at Royal Birkdale, Woods will be first on the horn once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a long wait for Tom Kim. Over a thousand days since his last PGA Tour win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1461,44,82,15001,7216,15002,1142,2425],"class_list":["post-36896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genesis-scottish-open","tag-genesis-scottish-open","tag-golf","tag-story","tag-text","tag-tgl","tag-the-first-person-to-text-tom-kim-after-his-genesis-scottish-open-win-tiger-woods","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tom-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}