Reacting to Anthony Kim's incredible comeback story | Jimmy Roberts reveals how Arnold Palmer helped him write his first book, what it's been like covering 20 Olympics
Subpar
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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On this week's episode GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz provide their reactions to Anthony Kim completing his incredible comeback story. They then are joined by sixteen-time Emmy Winner Jimmy Roberts. The NBC Sports and Golf Channel broadcaster talks how Arnold Palmer helped him write his first book, how impactful it was working with the great Howard Cosell and his favorite moments from covering 20 Olympic Games.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to another episode of Subpar and what a weekend of golf we had sleaze between the AT&C Pebble Beach ProM, the live down in Australia, Anthony Kim, just doing something I don't |
| 0:22.7 | think many people thought was even possible, winning a professional golf tournament for the first |
| 0:26.9 | time in almost 16 years. |
| 0:28.6 | Got to go all the way back to the Shell Houston Open in April for the last time he won. |
| 0:33.6 | I mean, this is a guy. |
| 0:34.8 | We're going to start with him because I think it was the feel-good story in golf this past week. |
| 0:40.9 | I mean, probably for the year or multiple years. |
| 0:43.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:43.8 | I mean, it definitely could be the story of 2026. |
| 0:47.0 | Going down there, a guy who did not make a point the last two years on Live, to the live promotions event earned his way |
| 0:55.4 | spot but they added an extra spot at at the live promotions event supposed to be two they |
| 0:59.8 | added another spot trying to get more access to the tour trying to get official world golf |
| 1:03.5 | ranking points which they have now anthony got that third and final spot said in his press |
| 1:08.9 | conference afterwards he goes I'm going to do big things I'm'm going to win big tournaments. It's coming. And he finishes 22nd in his first one, which was his best finish ever on Live, and then follows it up, winning their biggest event going toe to toe with the two best players on live, Bryson DeShambo and John Rom. And he didn't just beat him. He destroyed them. |
| 1:31.1 | He beat John Rom by 8 and Bryson de Chambo by 11 in the same group. |
| 1:41.4 | It was clinical. I actually got home. I was, it was Valentine's Day. Wrap that shit up quick. I was getting a bunch of messages like, hey, you've seen AK's one back, AK time. I get home. I get to catch the last five holes, |
| 1:43.1 | watch him run away with this thing all the way through to his little daughter Bella |
| 1:45.3 | running up to him at the end |
| 1:46.4 | with that picture is going to go |
| 1:47.4 | that needs to be plastered everywhere all over any, like, rehab facilities and things like that. But what he did, not just doing it, the fact that he won their biggest event in front of the biggest crowds, and in the same group with the two guys, regardless of your feelings of live, no one argues that John Rahm and Bryson and Asham weren't two best players in the world. And he did it in their same group. If he had, let's just say for instance, those two guys were having a bad week, which is rare out there, but they weren't in the mix. And he did it in the final group against, you know, two middle of the road live guys, but yeah, it's a good win, |
| 2:18.2 | but he didn't have to, you know, go toe to toe to with any of the big guy. He, there's nothing you can point to him, be like, yeah, but it was just everything. And the fact that he's come from, I mean, not playing golf for a decade off the map to the point of like, forget golf. Like, this is a life story. |
| 2:32.2 | This is like a human story. |
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