The prospect for a profession grand slam and making Australian sporting historical past hadn’t been taking over an excessive amount of area in Minjee Lee’s thoughts on her path to this week’s ladies’s British Open at Royal Porthcrawl.
As a substitute, the world No.5 had “simply been taking part in” however admitted after arriving in Wales and with questions being requested stated that matching the feat of Corridor of Famer Lydia Ko had immediately offered “fairly an enormous motivation”.
With three main championships on her resume already, including the ladies’s Open would raise Lee into not simply {golfing} uncommon air however elevate her among the many greats of Australian sport.
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“Surprisingly, it hasn’t actually been on my thoughts. I’ve simply been taking part in,” Lee stated.
“I don’t really feel prefer it’s actually performed on my thoughts that a lot, however now that I’m right here I wish to clearly play effectively and have a very good end result.
“I imply all of the majors are a fantastic motivator for me, so sure, I undoubtedly wish to win it at some stage and be capable of get the profession Grand Slam. That may be completely wonderful.
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“Lydia’s carried out it and he or she’s within the Corridor of Fame and I feel now that I look again at it, proper now, what I can say, that’s fairly an enormous motivation for me to attempt to recover from the road.”
Australian ladies have gained two of the 4 majors up to now in 2025, with Lee taking out the PGA and Grace Kim’s beautiful playoff victory within the Evian Championship in France.
Requested if she felt prefer it was a “golden period”, with Hannah Inexperienced additionally a significant champion, Lee, who didn’t wish to class herself as a “veteran” at 30, stated issues do “really feel completely different” now with 9 Australians within the subject this week.
“I feel clearly I’m a bit older than the women coming by way of now, so I don’t know say it, however I’m not a veteran, extra of an older sister to those guys,” she stated.
“So it simply feels a bit bit completely different … type of seems like extra of a full circle second now. I’ve seen them since their newbie days and junior days, so now they’re on the circuit with me.”
Cassie Porter is a part of the following era, taking part in her first British Open, and stated it was the “finest time ever to be an Australian ladies’s golfer” with such a big cohort offering fixed assist, encouragement and steerage.
“Now we have so many Aussies out right here and it’s such a household. Our physios are Aussie. There’s so many Aussie gamers, so many Aussie caddies,” she stated.
Regardless of not profitable, Lee has a exceptional Open document, with six top-11 finishes in 11 begins that she places all the way down to a “dwelling” really feel on hyperlinks programs.
“It’s a special vibe,” she stated.
“And among the bunkers are type of rolling, so it’s with the pure terrain, which simply seems to be very nice and there’s a number of pot bunkers right here and there. It simply jogs my memory a bit bit extra of dwelling.”
Australians the sphere
Minjee Lee
World rating: 5
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 11
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: third in 2020
Hannah Inexperienced
World rating: 11
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 7
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: T16 in 2019
Grace Kim
World rating: 26
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 2
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: T36 in 2023
Karis Davidson
World rating: 220
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: Nil
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: N/A
Stephanie Kyriacou
World rating: 42
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 5
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: T7 in 2022
Hira Naveed
World rating: 141
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 1
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: MC in 2024
Cassie Porter
World rating: 178
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 0
Kirsten Rudgeley
World rating: 162
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 0
Gabriela Ruffels
World rating: 63
Previous AIG Girls’s Open appearances: 2
Greatest AIG Girls’s Open end: MC in 2020, 2024