Anthony Kim Just Won't Let Up

You know, two wins sure does make a year successful for a 23-year-old star on the PGA Tour, but for Anthony Kim, the Ryder Cup looks to have revamped his focus and attitude on the golf course. An opening six-under 64 in the Tour Championship a week ago put him in a position to win and now he's equaled that 64 in the Asian Tour's Korea Open.

Kim is two shots up on Kim Jong-myung of South Korea after the round of seven-under and said he's been happy with the support he's received in Korea.

"I have been touched by the support given to me by fans in Korea," Kim told Korean media. "I want to repay them and need to stay focused for the rest of the tournament. I am American but I am also Korean. As a Korean, I am proud to be in the lead, but there is still a long way to go."

Other notables in the Korean Open is Ian Poulter (69).

That Had to Hurt

This was a long time ago, but do you remember the Tiger Woods commercial when he is training the regular guy to be a professional golfer? Tiger hits a drive through a tiny fairway of people and then the regular dude hits one with cardboard cutouts and "kills" about eight fake people with his bad shot?

Well, Anthony Kim was the regular guy yesterday, nailing David Whitfield in the head with an errant tee shot, sending the 48-year-old to the hospital with a "crater-like abrasion" on his grill. Kim struggled after he smoked the guy on 9, struggling to a two-over 37 on the back while Sergio Garcia shot a 34 and is now leading Kim and Phil Mickelson by three.

"I thought I killed him," Kim said. "It was an awful feeling to look down and see a golf ball-sized impression in his forehead and it's cut open. It was probably the nastiest thing I've ever seen."

While Sergio still has some work to do today, this could be the first instance in golf history where someone let another person's head affect their own game.

Anthony Kim Is Loving The Fire

It might not be a tournament on the top of your radar, but it is the Tour Championship with the top-30 golfers on the FedEx Cup list and Anthony Kim is basically kicking some serious ass.

A six-under 64 at East Lake Golf Club has the 23-year-old four shots ahead of second place Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman.

A win here would be his third of the season and really cement him as a top-5 golfer in the world. He only did it with eight birdies today. Fairly salty I guess.

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What is Kim Thinking?

If you're not watching the Canadian Open right now, you're missing out, because leader Chez Reavie is hitting fairways, greens, and making pars to secure his lead and Anthony Kim is BOMBING drives down the middle of the fairway and hitting his short irons like Alan Shepard.

For some reason, and it might be nerves or something, but Kim can't hit anything close to the hole. For some reason, he decided to hit 6-iron from 160 yards on 17, yanking in badly and putting himself in position for a tough par. It's pretty crazy that he, one of the longest hitters in the field, would hit such a big club from such a short distance after playing risky and hitting driver off the tee.

I don't know, maybe he got it confused with a 9-iron? That's my only explanation.

This Anthony Kim Kid Is Up To It Again

In both victories Anthony Kim has smoked home this year, he's had that one round that most need to get over the hump.

At the Wachovia Championship in May, Kim shot a third round 66. A month later, he won the AT&T National with a final round 65. Today, chasing a ton of guys in front of him at the Canadian Open, the Mercury-melting Kim fired a seven-under 64 to jump to a tie for the lead and possibly a chance at the Player of the Year award.

The 23-year-old Kim has had some pretty interesting rounds this week, opening with a pretty factory 65 and following that up with a two-under 69 that included two eagles, one double-bogey, three bogeys and three birdies.

He's becoming the favorite every week when he tees it up, not missing a cut since early April and finishing in the top-10 in his first ever British Open. If he wins this, that will be three for the year and his cockiness will be refreshing for the American Ryder Cup team.

Could you imagine if Tiger Woods was healthy and they paired him with Kim against the European Team? It would be like the year Tiger played with Phil Mickelson, only a lot cooler and probably successful. Hey, there'd be a lot less awkward white-ness in the group, that's for sure.

The Dobson Ranch Crew Is Probably Glued to Their Televisions

As the Canadian Open rolls on, one young golfer is dominating Glen Abbey Golf Club.

Chez Reavie, Arizona State alumni and Mesa, AZ badass, is leading for the first time on the PGA Tour after rounds of 65-64.

Reavie is best known for winning the 2001 U.S. Amateur Public Links, landing an exemption into the Masters, and graduated to the big boys tour after an 18th place finish on the Nationwide Tour money list last season.

He's trying to claim this first victory with the likes of Sean O'Hair, Mike Weir and Anthony Kim chasing him, arguably the hottest golfer on tour.

If you've never played Dobson Ranch, the place Reavie grew up on, you're missing out. It's a great municipal track and the bar is always packed of those characters Rick Reilly writes about in his golf novel. Good stuff.