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Anthony Kim struggles in return to golf at LIV event in Saudi Arabia

Turns out that when you take more than a decade off from professional golf, re-entry can be a little tricky. Anthony Kim played his first professional round since 2012 on Friday at LIV Golf's Jeddah event in Saudi Arabia, and if the moment was memorable, the score wasn't.

Kim, who left the PGA Tour following injury in 2012, finished his first round at Jeddah with a seven-bogey, one-birdie round of 76, 14 strokes behind leaders Jon Rahm and Adrian Meronk. Joaquin Niemann, Charl Schwartzel and Bryson DeChambeau are one stroke off the lead at -7.

The +6 round left Kim in dead last among the 54 competitors on the day, two strokes behind Bubba Watson.