Tom Kim opens up on his first encounter with Tiger Woods — and his growing notoriety

KAPALUA, Hawaii – When Tom Kim was five or six years old, he remembers being at a golf tournament in Australia and traipsing after Tiger Woods – stopping just short of following him to the bathroom.

“I had my TW cap on and it was so big because I had a small head at that time and it didn’t fit. But he was walking literally three feet in front of me and I shouted, ‘Go, Tiger’ and (he) tipped the cap and went in the bathroom,’ ” Kim recalled, “and literally thousands of people started running to the bathroom waiting for him to come out. But that was my first interaction with him.”