For a while it seemed on Sunday DP World Tour’s FedEx Open de France Would be Brooks Koepka’s day. The Liv Golf Star started the day bound for the 54-hole lead and held the lead on the rear nine while looking at his first victory since Liv Greenbrier last August.
But Koepka Bogey de Par-4 15th and did not make a birdie on the Par-5 16th, who opened the door for Michael Kim to do something that was not done in 53 years.
Kim, a sensation on social media that enjoyed a career year, started the day one lap of the pace at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, but he quickly led the lead with a 40-foot Birdie Putt on the second. Koepka Kim handed in 33 and a Birdie on the 10th brought him again within one of the leadership. Kim then made a kick-in Birdie on the 16th to bind the lead and took the solo lead with a seven-foot Birdie Putt on the 17th.
But Kim’s journey to his Maiden DP World Tour winning would not be easy.
Kim had to be par to make a play-off with home books with home of Jeong Weon Ko Ko and the Australian Elvis Smylie and found the bunker with his tee-shot on the par-3 18th. He splashed to 16 feet and left himself a difficult parputt to seal the victory.
The 32-year-old investigated the putt with the Parisian sun, put a confident blow on the putt and curled the putt on the right to get the house at 4 pm.
Kim saw the 54-hole leaders end up nervously, but Koepka, Min Woo Lee and Marcus Armitage were all unable to match his mark, so Kim could become the first American to win the France in 53 years.
.@Mike_kim714 is the first American player to open the French in 53 years
American players to win the Open de France of all time:
Walter Hagen, 1920
Byron Nelson, 1955
Barry Jaeckel, 1972
Michael Kim, 2025– Justin Ray (@justinraygolf) September 21, 2025
“To be honest, I felt that I hit a decent bunker shot [on 18] And that putt – the green glides away so much that I knew it would be soon, and it was just not as much as I thought, “said Kim after photographing a Sunday 65 to win.”[Smylie] Gave me a considerable look of the side, and man, I know it was not somehow pretty straight through the middle. I darkened a bit when that putt went inside.
‘[I hadn’t won since] The 2018 The John Deere Classic, and I really wanted to set up a good show here this week, and I am just like that, so happy and grateful that I could come up with a victory. “
Kim’s season on the PGA Tour started hot. He finished T2 at the WM Phoenix Open, T13 on the Genesis Invitational, T6 on the Cognizant Classic and fourth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. His game then cooled down, because Kim did not place any top 10 finish until the 10th ended in the 50-man Field BMW championship.
Koepka finished in fourth place, two shots behind Kim.
If Kim, who often takes the question and answer from the travel day with fans on X, takes questions on Monday, he might be a bit rude.
“I have a flight tomorrow morning, but until that moment I drink a lot of French wine and some champagne, I know for sure,” said Kim.
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