Golf is supposed to be the easy part of a PGA Tour player's week. Dinner should be even easier. Somehow Si Woo Kim turned a takeout run into an international incident, and now he's out here telling the story himself because honestly, it's too good not to.
The setup: a GPS mix-up landed the 4-time PGA Tour winner in the middle of a Border Patrol stop over dinner plans.
Here's the thing that makes this actually forgivable and not just a case of a guy not paying attention: there are reportedly two Korean BBQ restaurants with basically the same name, and one of them happens to sit just across the Canadian border from where Kim was staying for the week. Google Maps did what Google Maps does and pointed him toward the wrong one without so much as a warning label.
Fair question — how is anyone supposed to know there are two identically named spots waiting to trap them?
How's he supposed to know there's two restaurants with the exact same name? https://t.co/K7gKMppfBc
According to reporting on the ordeal, Kim followed the directions, paid a toll to cross a bridge, and only realized what happened once he was already through — without his passport, on a one-way route with no easy way to turn back. He ended up on the Canadian side getting flagged down by agents before anyone sorted out that this was just a hungry golfer with a bad GPS pin, not a smuggling situation.
Kim is a 4-time PGA Tour winner, most famously taking The Players Championship back in 2017 at 21 years old, so he's no stranger to pressure moments. Nothing in his career prepared him for explaining himself to Border Patrol agents over barbecue, though, and that's exactly why he's sitting down now to walk through the whole thing on camera.
Kim breaks down the whole ordeal himself, from the wrong turn to getting his car searched at the border.
This is exactly the kind of story that follows a guy around for the rest of his career, and Kim seems to know it. He's not hiding from it, he's out there doing the media rounds recounting the play-by-play of driving into a foreign country over a barbecue order. Give him credit for owning it. Most players would've buried this and hoped nobody asked. Kim's making it content.