I've got to agree with those that consider Kim an American golfer, at least for the purpose of comparison. There is a big difference between an Asian golfer from Asia doing well on the PGA tour, and an ethnically Asian golfer from America doing well on the PGA tour. In the LPGA, there are many (almost half of the top 50) very successful Japanese and Korean golfers. But there are only 2 men from Asia ranked in the top 50. I started a thread a couple months back about that. My theory is that Asian men probably could fare about as well as the Asian women except for 2 things. One, most probably don't feel the extra money on the PGA tour is worth all the travel and being away from home and are content to play the Japanese tour ... while for the women, there is really no good alternative to the LPGA. The other is that the Japanese tour gets a very low amount of points for the world golf rankings, and IMO, unfairly so.