Nationality South Korea U.S. Open T45: 2013 Height 1.83 m Turned professional 2009 Masters Tournament DNP Role Golfer Professional wins 4 | Current tour(s) Web.com Tour Name Kim Bi-o College Yonsei University The Open Championship DNP Weight 81 kg | |
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Born 21 August 1990 (age 34) Seoul, South Korea ( 1990-08-21 ) | ||
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Kim Bi-o (Korean: 김비오; born 21 August 1990) is a South Korean professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour.
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As an amateur, Kim won the Korean Amateur Open and Japan Amateur Golf Championship in 2008. He turned professional in 2009 and joined his home Korean Tour for 2010, winning once.
At the end of the 2010 season, he entered qualifying school for the PGA Tour and gained his playing rights in eleventh place. He lost his PGA Tour card after finishing 162nd on the money list. He split his 2012 season between the OneAsia Tour and Web.com Tour. Kim won for the second time as a professional in 2011 at the Nanshan China Masters on the OneAsia Tour. He picked up his third victory at the GS Caltex Maekyung Open on the OneAsia Tour in May 2012. Along with his two victories on the OneAsia Tour in 2012, Kim won the tour's Order of Merit. With his two victories, he also won the Korean Tour Order of Merit in 2012.
In 2013, he played on the Web.com Tour for a second season, but made only two cuts in 15 tournaments.
From 2014, he played mainly on the Korean Tour.
His highest World Ranking was 200th, in May 2012. In 2014, he slipped out of the top 1000 players.
Amateur wins
Korean Tour wins (3)
Team appearances
Amateur