Australian celebrity Minjee Lee was as soon as once more recognised because the nation’s main golfer after one other excellent yr, but it surely was her cheeky little brother Min Woo Lee, who stole the present on the PGA Awards on Tuesday night time in Brisbane.
With the LPGA Tour Championship wrapping up in Florida on Monday morning Australian time, the older Lee sibling was unable to make it again to Australia in time to obtain her fourth Greg Norman medal.
The 29-year-old turned simply the fourth Australian to win three or main titles – alongside Karrie Webb, Peter Thomson and Jan Stephenson – when she triumphed on the Girls’s PGA Championship in Texas in June, and he or she additionally gained the LPGA’s Annika Award for the very best participant throughout the 5 girls’s majors for the yr.
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These feats ensured that the world No.4 pipped fellow main winner Grace Kim, who gained the Evian Championship in France in July, for the highest gong.
In Minjee’s absence, PGA Tour participant Min Woo, who was on the town for the awards ceremony forward of the Australian PGA Championship, which bought underway at Royal Queensland on Thursday, stepped as much as the rostrum to simply accept the medal on his sister’s behalf, and delivered a roughly one minute speech that had the group in stitches.
“Wow, the Greg Norman Medal once more. Fourth time,” he started.
“At this level I ought to most likely simply ask them to engrave my title completely on it so nobody else will get their hopes up.
“Truthfully, I’m beginning to really feel unhealthy for everybody who had an excellent season, solely to recollect I exist. Have to be powerful.
“You grind all yr, you’re employed laborious. You assume this could possibly be my time, after which I roll in like ‘hey guys, miss me?’
“I wish to thank the choice panel for persevering with to make wonderful decisions. Your style is impeccable. Actually elite.
“To my fellow Aussie golfers, preserve pushing, preserve bettering as a result of someday, possibly not quickly, possibly someday, you may end near me.
“And, after all, shoutout to my crew, to my household, and everybody who helps me.
“You retain me grounded, which is truthfully spectacular contemplating how excessive above the remainder of the sector I apparently preserve ending.
“Anyway, I’ve the very best brother ever. Cheers.”
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The stitch-up of a speech would have absolutely gone down properly with the sometimes humble, Minjee.
She did present a few of her personal phrases from afar on profitable the award that she additionally claimed in 2018, 2021 and 2023.
Not like her brother’s speech, Minjee was fast to deflect away from herself and to the success of the opposite Australians on the LPGA.
“It has been an especially satisfying yr personally and for the implausible crew round me, and I’m thrilled to obtain the Greg Norman Medal,” she stated.
“Successful one other main was clearly a spotlight this yr, however watching Grace win her first at Evian was definitely one other second to recollect.
“I’ve little doubt she will likely be nominated for many extra awards like this one for years to return.
“Enjoying with Grace, in addition to Hannah (Inexperienced) and Steph (Kyriacou), and profitable the Worldwide Crown representing Australia was one other excessive level of an excellent yr, and reveals the power of Australian girls on the world stage.
“I wish to thank everybody in my crew for the help and steerage they’ve given me these previous 12 months, all of the Aussie followers who comply with us every week, and the PGA of Australia for this prestigious honour.”