Tom Kim will return to PGA Tour competition this week after a two-month break following his gold medal at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Kim will compete in the VidantaWorld Mexico Open, the fifth event of the PGA Tour's fall series, from Thursday through Sunday at Vidanta Vallarta in Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico. The tournament has a $6 million purse.
It will be Kim's first PGA Tour event since the Tour Championship in late August.
He competed in the Presidents Cup in the United States last month before traveling to Nagoya for the Asian Games, where he won the men's individual gold medal despite dealing with jet lag, lack of sleep and fatigue.
Kim then took time off to rest and recover.
The 24-year-old has one PGA Tour victory this season and four career wins and will seek his second title of the year and fifth overall.
The PGA Tour ranked Kim second in its power rankings for the tournament Monday, highlighting a season that has included a third-place finish at the US Open, victory at the Genesis Scottish Open and an Asian Games gold medal.
Kim enters the event without concerns about retaining his PGA Tour status.
Tied for 14th in the FedEx Cup standings, he has already secured his place on tour for next season regardless of his result in Mexico.
Players around the top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings face greater pressure, with only limited opportunities remaining in the fall series to secure status for next season.
Tony Finau, a six-time PGA Tour winner and the 2023 champion of this event, is 107th in the standings and needs a strong finish.
Other leading players in the field include US Open champion Wyndham Clark, defending champion Brian Campbell, Ben Griffin and six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa.
John Daly II, the son of two-time major champion John Daly, is also in the field.
(This article was produced with the assistance of AI. — Ed.)
