{"id":32428,"date":"2025-12-11T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/chan-kim-leads-pga-tour-q-school-after-newborn-leaves-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:47:29","slug":"chan-kim-leads-pga-tour-q-school-after-newborn-leaves-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/chan-kim-leads-pga-tour-q-school-after-newborn-leaves-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Chan Kim leads PGA Tour Q School after newborn leaves hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 Chan Kim can&#8217;t wait to start changing her baby&#8217;s diapers. First, he hopes to get his PGA Tour card back for the 2026 season through PGA Tour Q School.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawaii-raised 35-year-old took a step in the right direction Thursday with a bogey-free 6-under 64 on the Soybean Valley course at TPC Sawgrass to take a one-shot lead after the first round at Q School.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kim&#8217;s first child, daughter Jenna, was born three weeks premature and has spent the past month in the hospital with dropsy. Hydrops is a life-threatening condition for a fetus characterized by the accumulation of fluid in the lungs, or edema.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first two weeks were very emotional,&#8221; Kim said, noting that her daughter had a small blood clot in her heart. &#8220;Doctors didn&#8217;t know if she was going to survive, and that just added a lot of stress to us. But every day we&#8217;re getting good news and her lab is getting back to great shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best news? Jenna came home on Wednesday. Kim missed the birth because his wife required an emergency caesarean section. He was competing in the Tour&#8217;s Worldwide Technology Championship in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but missed out on a spot in 12th place.<sup>th<\/sup> Time in the past 15 games as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>With time running out to secure next year&#8217;s card, Kim continued to compete in the final two fall events while Jenna was receiving treatment in the NICU.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so focused on that that nothing else mattered at that point,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL &#8211; DECEMBER 11: Jang Kim reacts on the seventh green during the first round of the PGA Tour Q School Presented by Cohn F1 Lee at the Soybean Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass on December 11, 2025 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kim was 8 over after 11 holes at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, but recovered to finish T-22. He also competed in the RSM Classic, but it wasn&#8217;t enough to get his season back. He finished 130th in the FedEx Cup standings, losing full status and returning to the final stage of the PGA Tour Q-School with hopes of earning five of the 176 spots. For Kim, Q-School is nostalgic. For Kim, Q-School has been through Canadian Tour Q-School, Asian Tour Q-School, Japan Tour Q-School twice, and he has even achieved Challenge Tour status at the European Tour Q-School Off. He finished second in the 2022 PGA Tour Q School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easier said than done, but at the end of the day, this is just another tournament where you try to win,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m not just focused on finishing in the top five, I&#8217;m here to win. So that was my mentality at Q School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter that Kim&#8217;s putter was hot on Thursday. He sank a 25-foot birdie putt on No. 7, a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 9, and estimated it was closer to 35 or 40 feet on No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I missed all the easy ones, but I made all the difficult ones,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>One cut, three more, and Kim can go back to her dad&#8217;s job. That will require countless diapers in the near future. (He&#8217;s replaced one so far.) A PGA Tour card will go a long way toward paying for next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to find a way to at least earn money for diapers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Chan Kim leads PGA Tour Q-School after newborn released from hospital<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 Chan Kim can&#8217;t wait to start changing her baby&#8217;s diapers. 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