A two-time winner on the LPGA Tour in 2023, Lee beat the strongest field of contenders in the award’s nine-year history, including reigning Australian PGA Championship winner Cameron Smith, and Minjee’s younger brother, Min Woo Lee.
Lee is now the third player from Down Under to have 10 or more LPGA Tour wins, Jan Stephenson being the first (16 wins) and Karrie Webb the second (41 wins).
Australia’s most recent women’s major championship winners, Minjee Lee and Hannah Green, have today announced they will return home to contest the ISPS Handa Australian Open at The Australian Golf Club and The Lakes Golf Club from November 30.
The Webex Players Series Perth hosted by Minjee and Min Woo Lee will be part of both the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour of Australasia and is locked in for an initial period of three years in a huge boost for golf in Western Australia.
Nasa Hataoka holds the inside track to win the major, holding a one-stroke lead at seven-under par over Allisen Corpuz. Here are five storylines to follow during the final round at Pebble Beach.
Five Australians will tee up at the US Women’s Open at the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links, led by defending champion Minjee Lee. Here are their tee times for the first two rounds.
In setting up how Pebble Beach will play this week for the first US Women’s Open held on the famed links, USGA senior director of championships Shannon Rouillard would be perfectly happy to have a winning score that resembles those that the men have recorded in recent majors here.
The 27-year-old West Australian was asked four weeks ago to return the enormous trophy that she won at Pine Needles last year, the empty space now on the shelf at her Dallas home the motivation to launch yet another trophy hunt.
We rank the top 25 players competing at the 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, including Australians Minjee Lee and Hannah Green, as well as New Zealand’s Lydia Ko: