Kim Kyung-tae

Kim Kyung-tae
Personal information
Born	(1986-09-02) 2 September 1986 Kangwon Province, South Korea
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Sporting nationality	South Korea
Residence	Seongnam, South Korea
Career
College	Yonsei University
Turned professional	2006
Current tour(s)	Asian Tour Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins	18
Highest ranking	18 (7 August 2011)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	13
Asian Tour	2
Other	5
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T44: 2011
PGA Championship	T48: 2010
U.S. Open	T30: 2011
The Open Championship	T48: 2010
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour leading money winner 2010, 2015

Template:Korean name Kim Kyung-tae (born 2 September 1986), also known as K.T. Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the Asian and Japan Golf Tours.

He won several amateur tournaments in his early career, including the 2006 Japan Amateur Championship. He turned professional in late 2006 and won the 2007 Maekyung Open in his second start on the Asian Tour. He has also won on the Korean domestic professional circuit.

In 2010, Kim won the Diamond Cup Golf, Japan Open and Mynavi ABC Championship on the Japan Golf Tour and became the first Korean golfer to lead the money list on the Tour. He was subsequently followed by Bae Sang-moon in 2011 and the two remain the only two Korean players to achieve the feat.

Kim has played in each of the four major championships, recording top-50 finishes in each, with his best being a T30 finish at the 2011 U.S. Open.

He also played in his first Presidents Cup team in 2011, representing the International Team in a 15–19 defeat to USA. Kim finished with a 2–0–2 record.

Kim won five events during the 2015 Japan Golf Tour season, which at the time took his overall total to ten tournament victories on the tour. This being a record for Korean players on the tour.

Kim has since won a further three events during the 2016 season, including The Crowns, which takes his number of Asian Tour victories to thirteen.

Amateur wins (3)

• 2006 Asian Games (team and individual), Korean Amateur Championship, Japan Amateur Championship

Professional wins (18)

Asian Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	6 May 2007	GS Caltex Maekyung Open	−18 (70-66-67-67=270)	4 strokes	Liang Wen-chong
2	27 Sep 2015	Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf1	–9 (67-69-67-68=271)	3 strokes	Yuta Ikeda, Toshinori Muto

¹ Co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour

Japan Golf Tour wins (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	30 May 2010	Diamond Cup Golf	–16 (65-68-68-71=272)	2 strokes	Koumei Oda
2	17 Oct 2010	Japan Open	–13 (69-70-68-64=271)	2 strokes	Hiroyuki Fujita
3	31 Oct 2010	Mynavi ABC Championship	–13 (67-70-70-69=275)	1 stroke	Ryo Ishikawa
4	24 Jul 2011	Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup	–15 (67-70-68-68=273)	4 strokes	Ryo Ishikawa
5	2 Sep 2012	Fujisankei Classic	–8 (70-70-68-68=276)	1 stroke	Yuta Ikeda
6	14 Jun 2015	Singha Corporation Thailand Open1	–21 (71-64-67-65=267)	3 strokes	Wang Jeung-hun
7	12 Jul 2015	Musee Platinum Open	–20 (68-67-63-66=264)	1 stroke	Cho Min-gyu, Brad Kennedy, Park Jae-bum
8	6 Sep 2015	Fujisankei Classic	–9 (70-64-68-73=275)	1 stroke	Lee Kyoung-hoon
9	27 Sep 2015	Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf2	–9 (67-69-67-68=271)	3 strokes	Yuta Ikeda, Toshinori Muto
10	1 Nov 2015	Mynavi ABC Championship	–12 (66-69-68-69=272)	2 strokes	Daisuke Kataoka, Katsumasa Miyamoto, Won Joon Lee
11	17 Apr 2016	Token Homemate Cup	–13 (68-67-67-69=271)	Playoff	Tomohiro Kondo
12	1 May 2016	The Crowns	–10 (69-69-65-67=270)	Playoff	Daisuke Kataoka
13	29 May 2016	Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open	–11 (69-64-71-73=277)	1 stroke	Kodai Ichihara, Shugo Imahira, Lee Sang-hee

¹ Co-sanctioned with the OneAsia Tour
² Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour

OneAsia Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	8 May 2011	GS Caltex Maekyung Open	–21 (67-68-66-66=267)	8 strokes	Cho Min-gyu, Kim Hyung-sung
2	14 Jun 2015	Singha Corporation Thailand Open1	–21 (71-64-67-65=267)	3 strokes	Wang Jeung-hun

¹ Co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour

Other wins (3)

• 2006 Pocari Enerzen Open, Samsung Benest Open (Korea) (both as an amateur)
• 2007 SBS Tomatobank Open

Results in major championships

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Masters Tournament	DNP	T44	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	T30	67	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	T48	CUT	CUT	T73	DNP	DNP	T53
PGA Championship	T48	T59	61	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
U.S. Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3
PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3
Totals	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	9

• Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (2010 Open Championship – 2011 U.S. Open)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Results in World Golf Championships

Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Cadillac Championship	DNP	T49	T51	DNP	DNP	DNP	T42
Dell Match Play	DNP	R64	R64	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Bridgestone Invitational	DNP	T6	T24	DNP	DNP	DNP	T21
HSBC Champions	T41	T49	DNP	DNP	DNP	T27	T47

The HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing South Korea): 2004, 2006

Professional

• Presidents Cup (representing the International team): 2011
• Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2011, 2012 (winners), 2013
• EurAsia Cup (representing Asia): 2016
• World Cup (representing South Korea): 2016

External links

• Kim Kyung-tae at the Asian Tour official site
• Kim Kyung-tae at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Kim Kyung-tae at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
• asiantour.com story on 2007 Maekyung Open win