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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Anthony Kim's Past Exploits and Possible Future in Golf

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

thefriedegg.com

Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Joseph start off with what they are IN on and OUT on for this week. Shane Bacon then joins the two to reminisce on Anthony Kim's career in golf, from his teenage years to his pro career to his subsequent injury struggles and exit from the game. The trio then discuss what Kim's best options are for a return to professional golf and the practicality of it all. To round off the episode, Andy, Joseph, and Shane each give a recommendation. Frequently cited in this episode: Tom Callahan's 2009 profile of Anthony Kim for Golf Digest

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0:00.0

I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg

0:06.8

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0:11.8

I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. Today's episode. Me and Joseph Lamanya

0:40.9

are going to go deep on Anthony Kim and we're also going to have

0:46.0

Shane Bacon on to talk about this with obviously the news that Anthony Kim might

0:50.5

be coming back. We figured it would be fun to do a little career retrospective and then looking forward and some comparisons to what Anthony Kim would be in the modern era.

1:02.0

But first, Joseph, what are you in on this week?

1:06.4

Well, I'm double dipping a little bit

1:07.7

from writing about this in the Friday Golf newsletter,

1:10.4

but I gotta say, way in on Tony Fienau regaining some speed

1:17.2

Andy don't know if you saw this but it's been I read your little piece

1:21.3

It's been a little bit of a statistical anomaly over the last couple years. I've been

1:27.0

puzzled as to why Tony Fienau's driving distance numbers haven't been what they

1:32.2

used to be. He's kind of been trending the wrong direction.

1:35.0

Ball speed, pretty much every year on tour has gone down. He used to be a top 10,

1:40.0

top 15 ball speed guy. Last year was like like 40th and especially on the back half of last year.

1:46.4

Results weren't as good and his driving distance numbers were down.

1:50.0

He mentioned after one of his rounds at Tori that he was nursing a couple injuries and he's finally healthy

1:57.6

He did an off-season of training including some speed training and I'm pretty excited to see what Tony Fino has this year.

2:06.0

He's obviously a great player I think some people may forget he won four times between

2:11.0

July of 2022 and April of 2023.

2:15.3

And just real quickly to rattle off some

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