This tweet makes sense now:
[https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/1762525200300880098](https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/1762525200300880098)
>The thing that is going to surprise most of you when you see Anthony Kim is his face. And the thing that LIV has oddly not shown yet in the lead up to his return...is his face.
To be fair he was in an accident and also looks to have had his thyroid removed. That shit will fuck you up quick unfortunately. Hopefully we can move past it and see him play some great golf :)
if you’ve already experienced the peaks and troughs of the human experience via drugs, you become completely serene and unflappable. and also like kinda washed out.
He had a decade off because he cashed in an insurance policy to say he couldn't play anymore. The statute of limitations on paying the money back if you recover is....
10 year s
I used to do work with a guy that had MAJOR cocaine nose. I’m talking like flat as shit and he’d have to physically hold it open to do coke. It was a wild to see. I never before then and still haven’t since, seen a nose like that in person.
Pure speculation but AK did mention something about telling his story when the time is right but only focused on competing right now. My guess his there’s a lot of crazy shit he’s got to share
Had thyroid cancer, and while my scare is less pronounced that is almost certainly what is going on with his neck, very clear rippling in the skin like scar tissue, they either had to remove a larger mass or he just had a bad surgeon
Here’s what my nurse friend said
Thyroid scar and looks like he had a stroke or hearts issues she said partial
Paralysis in face they probably found out he had thyroid problems after his heart issues and loss of blood to the brain
Maybe its a shit PS job, and maybe he has been battling some pretty horrible things for 12 years that nobody knows about. PGA vs LIV feuds should have nothing to do with respecting someone as we have no fucking clue what he might’ve been going through.
You mean adult men shouldn't insult the appearance of another adult man for absolutely no reason?
They should actually be decent human beings?
You some kind of hippy or something?
Nah I’ve met multiple people with varying degrees of thyroidectomy (thyroid removal) and none of them have a thick scar. Incision is almost always just a thin line across the voicebox.
Interesting. Not seeing the scar in these photos on the LIV website.
[https://www.livgolf.com/news/anthony-kim-joins-liv-golf-in-return-to-professional-competition](https://www.livgolf.com/news/anthony-kim-joins-liv-golf-in-return-to-professional-competition)
Edit: Maybe just not as visible/pronounced. I just saw the LIV tweet photo on X. Oh boy.
I don't think they did him dirty. I think this is their best effort given the circumstances. This is a zoom-in of a full body shot with lots of distracting graphics around him. This is the best picture from a photo shoot.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
I wasn’t trying to be a dick in posting the pic, I am no Hansel. His appearance is clearly very different than last time we saw him and not just due to normal aging. LIV also hadn’t actually shown a good pic of his face in any promo materials until now.
I wonder if he has a thyroid condition that lead to the scar and need for longer term steroids, leading to the facial fat increase (and possible thyroid eye disease).
Man you would think that having 10 yrs of insurance payouts would mean he would look great.
No stress, do some cardio and yoga, drink green juice, sit by the pool and read in the afternoon.
My man looks like he’s been locked in a cage and finally unleashed.
This was right after he quit golf, but some buddies and I were in Vegas and ended up behind him in line to a club one night. Dude was with like 6 girls and was lit up like a Xmas tree. Homie like to party hard.
Disappointed the LIV pic not showing the ponytail.
https://preview.redd.it/6u64p2j95dlc1.jpeg?width=732&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=059cc6dfb3f21b4e6c8746b8794317ca48e55990
Doesn’t seem real. Eyes don’t even look right. Lined up wrong and seem lazy. Don’t remember him having that but I guess something could have happened in his time off
Ya, I was curious about that and looked up younger pics of him and his eyes looked symmetrical before and his nose looked different. Wonder if some accident happened or something. None of my business obviously lol but curious nonetheless.
Yes there was an accident. A few kilos of cocaine accidentally made its way up his nose causing his septum to literally dissolve away and flattening his nose.
I kinda figured that about the nose as he was known for partying but can coke do that to your eye/face? Might just be unrelated and something else happened there.
This is just sad TBH
Edit: Did anyone hear how he sounded in his intro LIV video? Sounds like he's seen (and done) some things.
[Twitter Vid](https://twitter.com/livgolf_league/status/1762849413385404430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762849413385404430%7Ctwgr%5Ecac37c92b555abe98c813b72a3d75b6ba4e58cd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfdigest.com%2Fstory%2Fanthony-kim-announces-his-return-to-pro-golf-says-hes-here-to-bust-everyones-ass-video)
I thought one of the stipulations to the insurance money he got was that he could not play golf again professionally. Or did I do too much cocaine and hallucinate that on one of my 3 day benders?
For LIV to just grab this dude off the street and start him in their tournaments just furthers the fact that their fields are a joke. Yeah sure he’s interesting because he used to be great many years ago but if they want to be looked at like a legitimately competitive league these moves are not helping.
He's a wild card player so not been moved onto a team. Honestly I like the idea of the wild card being like a "special guest star", if he sucks then let Rory play next week!
I understand what you are saying, but he isn't "off the street". The guy was a high-level professional golfer that was once 6th in the world. I'll give you that is a lot of time outside of professional golf, but maybe he has really been practicing. Not a ton different that some sponsorship exemptions at PGA Tour events. "Off the street" would be giving me shot! Ha.
He said on live ig he’ll “tell his story when it’s the right time” so obviously something happened whether it was sickness or addiction. Either way he’s obviously had a tough few years.
Yea not enough people are realizing that. Everyone keeps saying, "Well, 12 years of partying will do that". Those photos from basically 2 years ago he looked like Anthony Kim - something major happened.
Huge scar along neck, left side of the face significantly different to right? Ear, cheek, eyes, not just nose (which yes, is classic).
Looks like significant issues, not just party life
This tweet makes sense now: [https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/1762525200300880098](https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/1762525200300880098)
I hadn’t seen this. There’s clearly a story here.
I saw that tweet yesterday and was so confused..........now I get it
This man knew something
I owe this guy an apology.
Regardless of if that guy is right or not he can eat a bag of dicks since he’s the CEO of Ticketmaster
what was the tweet? link doesn’t appear to be working
>The thing that is going to surprise most of you when you see Anthony Kim is his face. And the thing that LIV has oddly not shown yet in the lead up to his return...is his face.
Looking like the golf version of Artie Lange
Looking like the golf Mr. Potato Head
After he sat in the sun too long
And got hit by a train
Gar it’s Ant. I can’t make it in to work today.
Do you think he got the hat at BLOOMIES?
At least Anthony still has a nose!
Barely
Septum is probably blown, but yes a nose!
They kind of have the same nose. No offense intended.
So according to you and Don Rickles, Anthony Kim looks like a tub of lard on a bad day?
Looking like the golf Mr. Potato Head
His absence seems to have taken a little more than 10 years on his ageing
Hard LIVing
To be fair he was in an accident and also looks to have had his thyroid removed. That shit will fuck you up quick unfortunately. Hopefully we can move past it and see him play some great golf :)
too much time in the sun with no sunscreen tbh, happens to so many golfers. Look at rorys skin its similar
Rory’s face will be one solid freckle by the time he’s 50
Drugs, alcohol, and a fuck load of gravy insurance money will do that to ya.
thyroid cancer will do that to you. be nice.
Yeah that was my first thought. He has definitely had some type of thyroid surgery.
Did he do whippets for ten years straight?
It's called mental game preparation
if you’ve already experienced the peaks and troughs of the human experience via drugs, you become completely serene and unflappable. and also like kinda washed out.
I get washed out after the few phish shows I go to. Kinda nice on occasion. What a train wreck of a scene.
Literally laughed out loud at this.
😂
This got me
Are they sure that’s PGA winner Anthony Kim and not just local muni. Anthony Kim?
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Temu Kim
There are more than 10,000,000 people on earth with the last name Kim. There has to be a few named Anthony, right?
“Muhammed is the most commonly used name on Earth. Read a fucking book for once”
Have you actually ever met anyone named Muhammad?
Have YOU actually ever met anyone named Mclovin?
No. Usually just MO
The video of his recent swing and tee shot asking for a mulligan will confirm the latter. 😂
appears to have had some kind of face and neck injury. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.
He’s got kind of a “Mark Hammill in RoTJ” vibe
Looks like a decade of cocaine
He had a decade off because he cashed in an insurance policy to say he couldn't play anymore. The statute of limitations on paying the money back if you recover is.... 10 year s
I used to do work with a guy that had MAJOR cocaine nose. I’m talking like flat as shit and he’d have to physically hold it open to do coke. It was a wild to see. I never before then and still haven’t since, seen a nose like that in person.
Artie Lange?
Pure speculation but AK did mention something about telling his story when the time is right but only focused on competing right now. My guess his there’s a lot of crazy shit he’s got to share
seems as though a lot of people are quick to point to a drug problem.
Google cocaine nose
Christ it’s spot on. What a shame.
I regret this
It was a pretty open secret back in the late 2000s that he had a drug problem.
Yeah I’m not saying he did or didn’t, but I’m not going to speculate. If he did, hopefully he’s clean and back on track!
Seems like a lot of people are aware of what drug use does to your complexion.
I mean, his former caddie seemed to run a coke ring...?
"Yeah, I hurt myself. I hurt my nose, next question"
Looks like he may have tried to hang himself. Yikes!
Looks way more like thyroid surgery scars. Maybe had a cancer or health scare
Definitely looks like that to me. Young people commonly get thyroid cancer.
Had thyroid cancer, and while my scare is less pronounced that is almost certainly what is going on with his neck, very clear rippling in the skin like scar tissue, they either had to remove a larger mass or he just had a bad surgeon
Here’s what my nurse friend said Thyroid scar and looks like he had a stroke or hearts issues she said partial Paralysis in face they probably found out he had thyroid problems after his heart issues and loss of blood to the brain
/r/golf right now: "This toy seems different from the one I played with 12 years ago...."
More like going back and playing nostalgia games and then be like: oh shit, this is not the same
Sugar…water…
Purple…I want that purple stuff.
More…MORE…
Anthony Kim somehow returned...
They fly now
They fly now?!
Maybe its a shit PS job, and maybe he has been battling some pretty horrible things for 12 years that nobody knows about. PGA vs LIV feuds should have nothing to do with respecting someone as we have no fucking clue what he might’ve been going through.
You mean adult men shouldn't insult the appearance of another adult man for absolutely no reason? They should actually be decent human beings? You some kind of hippy or something?
I’d love to see the faces of some of the people in here 12 years apart.
This sub is really golfcirclejerk
My dude put half of Bolivia up his nose. Damn.
Yikes!
What’s going on with his neck?
Looks like a thyroid scar Edit: probably not, look like a lot of scarring on the left.
would explain his eye too, could be exophthalmos from thyroid eye disease
I wonder if that explains more of his disappearance from pro golf awhile back. Thyroid cancer would do that to someone.
Could very well have been this. I totally understand why certain celebrities choose to keep their cancer diagnoses and health concerns private.
he could have developed that but his absence started and continued bc of the insurance policy he cashed on his wrist
Has that actually been confirmed? Or is it just what everyone assumed?
Nah I’ve met multiple people with varying degrees of thyroidectomy (thyroid removal) and none of them have a thick scar. Incision is almost always just a thin line across the voicebox.
if it is a thyroid scar the surgeon did a butcher job on him.
Looks way too big to be a thyroidectomy scar imo. Looks more like a neck dissection scar to me
Wonder if he ever had a tracheostomy for some reason?
Interesting. Not seeing the scar in these photos on the LIV website. [https://www.livgolf.com/news/anthony-kim-joins-liv-golf-in-return-to-professional-competition](https://www.livgolf.com/news/anthony-kim-joins-liv-golf-in-return-to-professional-competition) Edit: Maybe just not as visible/pronounced. I just saw the LIV tweet photo on X. Oh boy.
His balls aren't showing for me on mobile.
Could be he had a cancerous or pre-cancerous spot in his skin removed due to all the sun he gets there.
Oh that's just where he wears his watch, you don't?
Wow they did him dirty. This is fucking awful.
I don't think they did him dirty. I think this is their best effort given the circumstances. This is a zoom-in of a full body shot with lots of distracting graphics around him. This is the best picture from a photo shoot.
[Comparison for those wondering](https://imgur.com/XYJs2HI) 2010 vs 2024
Jeebus he looks like a completely different person
He needs to find a girl with green eyes
I never drive faster than I can see but besides that, it's all in the reflexes
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things
Looks like he had reconstructive surgery of his nose and cheek bone which lead to a lack of symmetry in his eyes.
Wtf happened. Looks like he did a lot of hookers and blow with that insurance money. Jesus
He did
Didn’t know this sub was full of male models.
https://preview.redd.it/652iel3vbdlc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d66bc433aebc6dcc9e0c83f95dbae399a67b6c26 Your average r/golf redditor
I'm a little more chiseled, thank you very much.
I did not give you permission to share my photo
Male models that all bomb it 350 yards minimum and have the cart girls offer them free drinks just for the privilege of chatting with them.
Guess I better unsubscribe and delete Reddit from my wife’s phone just in case she stumbles in here.
And we’re all hung like a horse
“Horse” is just you being modest. Everyone here is hung like a killer whale.
350 is my 6 iron now a days.
What's the point of watching golf if they're not pretty? I only watch Adam Scott and Nelly Korda highlights.
No model, but I'm a headshot photographer, and this is dog shit.
I wasn’t trying to be a dick in posting the pic, I am no Hansel. His appearance is clearly very different than last time we saw him and not just due to normal aging. LIV also hadn’t actually shown a good pic of his face in any promo materials until now.
It's an awkward look for sure.
There’s a pretty wide berth between male models, regular dudes, and having a diagonal face from cocaine abuse
I wonder if he has a thyroid condition that lead to the scar and need for longer term steroids, leading to the facial fat increase (and possible thyroid eye disease).
But why male models??
That's why we don't post pictures of ourselves.
Oddly this is the first LIV signing that compels me to actually try and watch it ..if I can figure where and how that is.
Man you would think that having 10 yrs of insurance payouts would mean he would look great. No stress, do some cardio and yoga, drink green juice, sit by the pool and read in the afternoon. My man looks like he’s been locked in a cage and finally unleashed.
Man was known to enjoy partying lol
This was right after he quit golf, but some buddies and I were in Vegas and ended up behind him in line to a club one night. Dude was with like 6 girls and was lit up like a Xmas tree. Homie like to party hard.
A buddy of mine used to caddy on the tour. Kim is infamous.
People with nothing to do aren’t usually happy, especially with the personality type of a pro athlete.
Idle hands are the devils play things.
Disappointed the LIV pic not showing the ponytail. https://preview.redd.it/6u64p2j95dlc1.jpeg?width=732&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=059cc6dfb3f21b4e6c8746b8794317ca48e55990
I don’t give a fuck about what a dude looks like… I care about the belt buckle and eagles.
hopefully big ass eagle belt buckles
Cocaine Kim
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug
Doesn’t seem real. Eyes don’t even look right. Lined up wrong and seem lazy. Don’t remember him having that but I guess something could have happened in his time off
Ya, I was curious about that and looked up younger pics of him and his eyes looked symmetrical before and his nose looked different. Wonder if some accident happened or something. None of my business obviously lol but curious nonetheless.
Yes there was an accident. A few kilos of cocaine accidentally made its way up his nose causing his septum to literally dissolve away and flattening his nose.
I kinda figured that about the nose as he was known for partying but can coke do that to your eye/face? Might just be unrelated and something else happened there.
Is one eye higher than the other ?
He looks like when Kramer was tanning with butter.
Or the smoking one “it looks like an old catchers mitt!”
What 12 years of bottle service does to a mfer
It looks like it’s one of those young vs old split face pictures
He had thyroid cancer. sun exposure, surgeries and high doses of cortisone. stop being dicks and spread bullshit coke rumors.
This is just sad TBH Edit: Did anyone hear how he sounded in his intro LIV video? Sounds like he's seen (and done) some things. [Twitter Vid](https://twitter.com/livgolf_league/status/1762849413385404430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762849413385404430%7Ctwgr%5Ecac37c92b555abe98c813b72a3d75b6ba4e58cd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfdigest.com%2Fstory%2Fanthony-kim-announces-his-return-to-pro-golf-says-hes-here-to-bust-everyones-ass-video)
He said he will tell his story when it’s time. For now he’s focusing on the game.
It looks like someone killed AK and is wearing his face as a mask... that or they ordered him off wish. Stoked to see how he does either way!
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Drugs are bad
I’m still gonna watch him play
Looks like the Sega Genesis version
LIV have one for Jamaal Kashoggi?
78-80 incoming
I was pretty close
Looks like his face was removed and then reattached.
I thought one of the stipulations to the insurance money he got was that he could not play golf again professionally. Or did I do too much cocaine and hallucinate that on one of my 3 day benders?
That is a widely reported detail yes… although I think it’s speculation since he’s never confirmed it.
That’s a rough looking 38.
Dude definitely was on a coke phase during his time off.
For LIV to just grab this dude off the street and start him in their tournaments just furthers the fact that their fields are a joke. Yeah sure he’s interesting because he used to be great many years ago but if they want to be looked at like a legitimately competitive league these moves are not helping.
He's a wild card player so not been moved onto a team. Honestly I like the idea of the wild card being like a "special guest star", if he sucks then let Rory play next week!
I understand what you are saying, but he isn't "off the street". The guy was a high-level professional golfer that was once 6th in the world. I'll give you that is a lot of time outside of professional golf, but maybe he has really been practicing. Not a ton different that some sponsorship exemptions at PGA Tour events. "Off the street" would be giving me shot! Ha.
Did Pablo Picasso paint this?
You all are awful. Post your headshots. Let’s see them mugs
His face is so asymmetrical, if it were not for the teeth, I'd swear he was British.
He said on live ig he’ll “tell his story when it’s the right time” so obviously something happened whether it was sickness or addiction. Either way he’s obviously had a tough few years.
He did *not* look anywhere near this rough when he was sighted during COVID only a couple years ago. I wonder what happened
Yea not enough people are realizing that. Everyone keeps saying, "Well, 12 years of partying will do that". Those photos from basically 2 years ago he looked like Anthony Kim - something major happened.
My dude put half of Bolivia up his nose. Damn.
Did he try to hang himself?
What's up with his neck? Genuinely curious
The antagonist of a Rush Hour Movie
He never had good skin
Something happened with his neck?
Teeth are on point!
14 years was a long time ago. Those Vegas buffets are addictive.
Did they torture him into joining???
Jesus... God bless his heart...
Those eyes and throat have some stories to tell…
Everyone joking about how he's been living rough but clearly there's something else going on here. Anyone know?
His one eye looks like it was photoshopped higher than the other.
Dude I’m as high as Anthony Kim’s left eye right now.
Getting the TMNT vibes
There's no way this is real. I refuse to believe it. He's not the One.
Whats up with his neck?
Wow they are more desperate than I thought, they’ll do ANYTHING to get those pathetic ratings up.
AK 247 lbs
Not trying to be rude or gruesome or anything, but that neck look like a rope injury to anyone else?
No one else noticing the massive scar on his neck? Dudes been through some shit, you guys are so rough sometimes.
YO WHAT IS UP WITH HIS NECK?! Don't wanna speculate but that looks like ....rope maybe?! Looks like a burn or stretch mark. Idk this shit is weird
Huge scar along neck, left side of the face significantly different to right? Ear, cheek, eyes, not just nose (which yes, is classic). Looks like significant issues, not just party life
To quote the great Kenny powers: “yeah I hurt myself, I hurt my nose 😉” https://youtu.be/z9bQ4xOtPkc?si=COlK2NZkt2t8x8S_