Drama!Drama! Tom Kim furious after Patrick Cantlay refuses to concede short putt
Tom Kim looked very upset in his match his foursomes Presidents Cup match against Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele.
Tom Kim was the first golfer at the 2024 Presidents Cup to use his putter to explain to anybody who cared to listen how he should have been given a putt.
Kim looked quite irritated during his Saturday afternoon foursomes match.
He was drawn alongside Si Woo Kim and the International team was to be up against the mighty U.S. team of Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.
The U.S. duo got off to a fast start in the third match, racing to a 2Up lead after seven holes at Royal Montreal Golf Club in Quebec, Canada.
Kim’s outburst arrived at the par-3 7th hole.
Schauffele found the putting surface with his tee-shot but left Cantlay some 30ft for birdie.
The duo managed to two-putt for par.
Tom Kim stuck his tee shot inside Schauffele’s and left his playing partner 14ft for a two, but Si Woo Kim’s effort lacked the required juice to reach the cup
ShotTracker says Kim then had 2ft 7ins for par.
At this point, Schauffele looked at Cantlay as if to say, ‘Are we going to concede this?’
Cantlay didn’t blink.
Kim held his nerve and tied the hole, but seconds after he sank his putt he used his putter to demonstrate how close he was.
In fairness, the putt did not look like a gimme by any stretch of the imagination given the shadows on his line.
Sky Sports’ Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley was inclined to agree, saying on the broadcast: “What, you’ve never missed from two feet?!”
Kim’s behaviour was reportedly not witness by Cantlay and Schauffele as they had their backs turned and were marching to the next tee.
Cantlay’s caddie, Joe LaCava, reportedly did see Kim’s antics.
Watch the moment here:
This incident alone is not the first time this week that the two parties have raised their anger.
Kim engaged in a row with Scottie Scheffler on day one.
The South Korean celebrated a 27-foot birdie putt at the par-3 7th with a fist-pump and shouted ‘let’s go’.
Scheffler responded with his own birdie to halve the hole and bellowed: “What was that?”
Kim especially put up a spirited defence when he sank a right to birdie the 8th hole.
He then, rather provocatively, went to the 9th tee neighbouring the hole before Scheffler’s birdie putt, which he missed.
Both players later played down what happened.
However during the match, US assistant Kevin Kisner accused Kim and his playing partner Sungae Im of going to far.
