Tiger Woods on Anthony Kim's LIV Win: ‘You Have To Wrap Your Heart Around It'

Anthony Kim walked out of a PGA Tour scoring trailer at Quail Hollow and straight to the parking lot on May 4, 2012. He put his clubs in the trunk and drove away, vanishing from golf and from public view for 12 years.

Kim was all the way back Sunday in Australia, full of swagger and energy, as he capped off a stunning rally — not just in the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide, but in life. Five shots behind Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, he closed with a 9-under 63 for his first win in nearly 16 years.

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He put on an electric show with leg-kicking, fist-throwing reactions for his four straight birdies before LIV's largest and loudest gallery of the season.

"I'm too old to be reacting like that because I think I pulled something in my hip," the 40-year-old Kim said to laughter. "But I will say that was all the lows I went through in my life that I got to dig out of. Every putt that went I felt the struggle, and I was overcoming it. It was therapeutic out there to fight through it and come out on top."

Those struggles include drug and alcohol addiction so severe Kim considers it a minor miracle he is still alive. He is married with a 4-year-old daughter, Bella, who raced onto the 18th green at The Grange Golf Club and into his arms.

"To be able to share this moment — even though Bella won’t understand it, one day she will — and for her to be able to run on the green and see her dad isn’t a loser was one of the most special moments of my life," Kim said.

Golf icon Tiger Woods praised Kim's win while speaking with reporters ahead of The Genesis Invitational.

"To see him struggle in life … and for him to come all the way back and for him to win and