A medal earned at the Paris 2024 Olympics for South Korea’s Tom Kim could have exempted him from South Korea’s mandatory miliarty service policy. A medal finish would have kept his PGA career uninterrupted. Instead, he finished just off of the podium with an eighth-place finish as the United States’ Scottie Scheffler took home the gold medal. Kim was seen emotional and wiping tears away after falling short of his Olympic dream. The post Tom Kim emotional after missing medal in Olympic men’s golf, remaining eligible for mandatory military service appeared first on On3.
