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2025-26 Men's Golf Roster

Carson Kim

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Yorba Linda, Calif.
  • Previous School Georgia Tech
  • High School Sunny Hills HS

Biography

AWARDS:
ACC All-Academic Team — 2024


GEORGIA TECH (2023-25): Began his career at Georgia Tech, where he played in all but two tournaments in two seasons ... Played in 12 events during the 2024-25 season, posting a 72.86 stroke average over 37 rounds. ... Tied for 18th at the NCAA Auburn Regional, 38th at the NCAA Championship and finished 10th at The Ford Collegiate ... As a freshman, competed in 12 of the 13 events and posted a 73.41 scoring average ... Earned match play victories at the NCAA Championship and the East Lake Cup ... Placed tied for 53rd at NCAAs, which was second on the team.

AMATEUR: Achieved his career-high rank of 231st in the World Golf Amateur Rankings in 2025 ... Tied for eighth at the 2024 Trans-Mississippi Amateur in Kansas and tied for 23rd in the Monroe Invitational in New York ... Won a local qualifier for the U.S. Amateur in 2024.

JUNIOR GOLF: Ranked 3rd nationally in the Junior Golf Scoreboard, No. 6 in the Golfweek boy's rankings and No. 9 in the AJGA rankings after finishing 11th at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and 21st in the AJGA Simplify Boy's Championship at Carlton Woods, as well as a 17th place finish at the California Amateur Championship ... Advanced to match play at the U.S. Junior Amateur in Charleston, S.C., where he tied for 14th place in stroke play and reached the round of 32 … Represented the U.S. in the 2022 Junior President’s Cup and won all three of his matches, including a 5&3 singles win, the second largest victory of the competition for the U.S. side … Earned the spot thanks to a fourth-place finish at The Junior PLAYERS Championship … Also played for the West team in the 2022 Wyndham Cup … 2022 AJGA results were highlighted by a third-place finish at the Sergio and Angela Garcia Foundation Junior Championship, as well as a trio of top-five finishes (fourth place at Junior PLAYERS and the Jack Burke, Jr., Invitational, then tied for fifth at the PING Invitational) and seventh at the season-ending Rolex Tournament of Champions.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Sunny Hills High School, located in Fullerton, Calif., in 2023 ... Earned All-Freeway League First Team and co-MVP team honors ... Earned the AJGA Billy Dettlaff Sportsmanship Award and was active in the AJGA Leadership Links as the top fundraiser for the Veteran’s Golf Association … In the classroom, he won Rotary Top 100, AP Scholar with Distinction honors and the Servite President’s Scholarship Award.