Minjee to join Min Woo at 2023 Australian Open | Inside Golf. Australia’s Most-Read Golf Magazine as named by Australian Golfers

By Rob Willis

Whereas Min Woo Lee confirmed his participation within the two main Australian males’s occasions a while in the past, large sister Minjee Lee has joined the social gathering, or at the least dedicated to be part of the ladies’s subject at The Lakes and The Australian Golf Golf equipment later this month, in making for a household affair. 

The winner of 9 USLPGA titles and at present ranked seventh on this planet, Minjee Lee will likely be joined on the event by one other Australian main championship winner and the twenty second ranked feminine golfer in Hannah Inexperienced, with the pair to headline the sphere on the upcoming Australian Girls’s Open. 

The pair are Australia’s two most up-to-date main championship winners, Lee having received the 2022 US Girls’s Open to go along with her victory on the 2021 Evian Championship, whereas Inexperienced burst to prominence along with her triumph on the 2019 Girls’s PGA Championship. 

Each will likely be chasing their maiden Australian Open titles, whereas additionally seeking to grow to be the primary Australian winner of the nationwide crown and the Patricia Bridges Bowl since Karrie Webb again in 2014, with Lee hoping to proceed a current run of fine type.

“The Australian Open is a event that I might like to win and add my title alongside gamers like Karrie, Jane Crafter, and Jan Stephenson as an Australian winner,” stated Lee, the winner of a ninth LPGA title throughout September on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship.

“Taking part in in entrance of a house crowd is at all times thrilling, as is the prospect to as soon as once more play a nationwide Open alongside my brother.” 

“I’m very excited to be teeing it up within the Australian Open once more this yr after experiencing the brand new format in 2022 and being in rivalry to win the Patricia Bridges Bowl,” Inexperienced added.

“As an Australian participant, the Australian Open is a event I’ve at all times had proper on the prime of my listing to hopefully in the future win.”

Inexperienced completed third within the Girls’s Open final yr in Melbourne, with Lee fifth.

The Girls’s Australian Open, which is performed alongside the lads’s championship and options women and men competing on the identical course on the similar time, tees off on December 30.