Just call me Tom.
That’s what South Korea’s newest PGA Tour champion prefers to be called, rather than his given name of Joohyung Kim. As the 20-year-old winner of the Wyndham Championship said in his post-round press conference, he came up with the name when he was 4 or 5 years old after his fondness for the TV show Thomas the Tank Engine, based on the famed British children’s book. As he explained in an earlier interview, “I had the whole (Thomas the Train) thing, I had the lunchbox, I had the toys, yeah.”
