{"id":46449,"date":"2025-07-07T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46449\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:56:09","slug":"michael-kim-provides-update-on-his-chances-of-playing-the-open-championship-after-his-complaint-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46449\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kim provides update on his chances of playing The Open Championship after his complaint last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Michael Kim continues his PGA Tour season at the Scottish Open this week, with hopes of playing The Open Championship right after.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/michael-kim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim<\/a> just missed the cut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/john-deere-classic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Deere Classic<\/a>, the most recent tournament in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/pga-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The event was won by Brian Campbell, who battled past Emiliano Grillo in a playoff at TPC Deere Run on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both players finished on 18-under to force a playoff, while one-time PGA Tour winner Kim missed the cut on three-under.<\/p>\n<p>Kim won the tournament back in 2018, but now turns his attention to the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2223854899-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Campbell holds the winner's trophy after winning the 2025 John Deere Classic\" class=\"wp-image-78451\" \/>Photo by David Berding\/Getty ImagesMichael Kim\u2019s chances of playing The Open Championship after R&amp;A complaint<\/p>\n<p>He has, however, also continued to keep one eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/the-open-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Open Championship<\/a>, which takes place at Royal Portrush next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/news\/michael-kim-makes-complaint-about-the-ra-just-two-weeks-before-the-open-begins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim criticised the R&amp;A<\/a> earlier this month for leaving him in the dark about a potential appearance at the major.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/features\/what-rory-mcilroy-found-strange-to-say-after-missing-the-cut-at-the-open-championship-at-portrush-in-2019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Rory McIlroy found \u2018strange\u2019 to say after missing the cut at The Open Championship at Portrush in 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he has now provided another update on the situation, with Kim sharing his thoughts from the John Deere Classic on X.<\/p>\n<p>Among those was a comment on Portrush which read: \u201cNo official word yet but I think I should be qualified for The Open Championship. First time I\u2019ll be playing all 4 majors in a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thoughts from Deere:<br \/>-The highs and lows of golf\u2026 flew too close to the sun I guess on Thursday. Everything was great but struggled mightily Friday. Couldn\u2019t stop missing it left. <br \/>-Worked on it during the weekend. Obviously the good golf is there and I\u2019ll be looking to get some\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2MNLaxG4MW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2MNLaxG4MW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael S. Kim (@Mike_kim714) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mike_kim714\/status\/1942038173485351387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> How has Michael Kim performed at the 2025 major championships?<\/p>\n<p>As Kim mentioned, he looks set to take on all four major championships this year, having impressed at the first three.<\/p>\n<p>He has really taken his game to another level this season, where he has made 17 cuts from his 21 appearances so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/news\/shane-lowry-on-the-shot-he-simply-hated-at-portrush-in-2019-despite-going-on-to-win-the-open-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Lowry on the shot he simply \u2018hated\u2019 at Portrush in 2019 despite going on to win The Open Championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2223418947-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"John Deere Classic 2025 - Round One\" class=\"wp-image-78239\" \/>Photo by Andy Lyons\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>His results include one runner-up finish at the WM Phoenix Open, along with three top 10s and six top 25s.<\/p>\n<p>At The Masters, Kim finished T27, and followed that up with T55 and T50 places at the PGA Championship and US Open respectively.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Tournament<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Position<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>To par<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Masters<\/td>\n<td>T27<\/td>\n<td>287<\/td>\n<td>-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PGA Championship<\/td>\n<td>T55<\/td>\n<td>289<\/td>\n<td>+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>US Open<\/td>\n<td>T50<\/td>\n<td>294<\/td>\n<td>+14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Michael Kim 2025 major championship results<\/p>\n<p>A place at The Open is now on his agenda, with Kim among the players looking to fine-tune their games for the major in Scotland this week.<\/p>\n<p>World top three Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele are also taking on the Scottish Open, which was won by home favourite Robert MacIntyre in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Kim continues his PGA Tour season at the Scottish Open this week, with hopes of playing The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,27068,24034,62,18410,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-john-deere-classic","10":"tag-michael-kim","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-open-championship","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813008913123549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}