Min Woo Lee has ridden a wave of crowd support that included T-shirts dedicated to the Perth golf star during a blistering first round, upstaging big names Adam Scott and Cameron Smith to sit near the clubhouse lead on day one at the Australian PGA Championship.
With the new DP World Tour season starting just days after the last one came to a close, Lee intends to draw on the energy of the Royal Queensland galleries when he tees off on Thursday.
Min Woo Lee has signed off on his last full DP World Tour season for the near future with a solid T-15 result at the European circuit’s finale in Dubai.
The tournament’s marquee player, Lee hit crushing drives and holed putt after putt to card an eight-under-par 63 for an astonishing four-round aggregate of 30-under – a new tournament record and two short of the Asian Tour record.
After a second-round 67 that has the rising Perth star in contention at the BMW PGA Championship, the 25-year-old took to social media to help spread the highlight of his ‘filthy’ flop shot on the final hole. He also may have just coined the next great golf phrase in the process.
Rory McIlroy found the water, twice, and racked up a triple-bogey 8, at the par-5 16th at the K Club that ended his hopes of chasing down eventual Irish Open winner, Vincent Norrman. Somehow, though, the finish to the 2023 Irish Open was just as entertaining as McIlroy’s 2016 victory at the K Club.
Lee will join DP World Tour and PGA Tour winner Lucas Herbert and LPGA Tour star Stephanie Kyriacou at this year’s Australian Open, which will again feature the joint tournament format with the men’s and women’s Opens, as well as the Australian All Abilities Championship, being contested on the same golf courses at the same time.
Adam Scott will need a hot result at this week’s regular season-ending Wyndham Championship in North Carolina if he wants to keep a 17-year FedEx Cup playoffs streak alive.
In football terms, the language of the Liverpool galleries, Tommy Fleetwood’s five-shot deficit through 36 holes to Brian Harman at the Open Championship is not unlike his beloved Everton FC being a few goals down at halftime in a home game at Goodison Park. It’s not ideal, but it’s not ever either.
It wasn’t the flat patch of land or Hoylake’s calm conditions that defined the opening 18 holes of the year’s final men’s major, but, rather, the devilish bunkers (81 overall) that litter the place.
Adam Scott has shot to near the top of the leaderboard at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut after a wild 62 that featured a bogey and a double bogey.
On Saturday evening in Los Angeles, Min Woo Lee’s phone pinged with a text from his friend and childhood idol, Adam Scott. It was an offer to ride on the former Masters champion’s private jet to Connecticut for next week’s Travelers Championship.
Australian Golf Digest
