World No.3 golfer Minjee Lee is banking on embracing the stress of being the star attraction at this 12 months’s Australian Girls’s Open in Adelaide.
Perth product Lee, the reigning Greg Norman medallist, was on Tuesday confirmed as a starter within the March 12-15 occasion at Kooyonga
“I all the time really feel just a little additional stress, and likewise I put just a little extra stress on myself to contend and to have an excellent outcome,” Lee mentioned.
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“It simply comes with it being our nationwide Open. Typically you possibly can’t management it, generally you possibly can.
“Each Aussie Open, I really feel like I expertise just a little little bit of that. It’s an excellent drawback to have.”
Regardless of having gained three majors, together with final 12 months’s Girls’s PGA Championship in Texas, Lee is but to style Australian Open success.
The latest Australian triumph on the girls’s nationwide Open was in 2014 at Victoria Golf Membership, the place Karrie Webb claimed the crown.
“It’s an occasion I might like to win in my profession and hopefully I can have an excellent crack at it this 12 months,” Lee mentioned.
“I’ve come shut earlier than, however it’s going to be troublesome towards the sphere that I’ll be up towards.”
It’s a subject that features fellow Australian Grace Kim, who final 12 months additionally gained a serious – the Evian Championship.
WPGA Tour of Australasia chief govt Karen Lunn mentioned having Lee and Kim returning to the Australian Open as present main champions was “one thing really particular”.
“It is going to be an ideal likelihood to rejoice their achievements,” Lunn mentioned.
“Our Australian girls are attaining extraordinary success on the worldwide stage.
Golf Australia chief govt James Sutherland mentioned Lee would additional increase a “nice subject of feminine golfers” on the occasion.
“Minjee had an unimaginable 2025 and is likely one of the most profitable athletes in Australian sport,” Sutherland mentioned.
“Her participation is a big increase to the occasion’s standing on the worldwide calendar. As top-of-the-line golfers on the earth, Minjee’s presence reinforces the occasion’s status, and the particular alternative for followers to see world-class golf on dwelling soil.”
Lee admitted that backing up her spectacular 2025 is likely to be “troublesome”, however felt it was attainable.
“It’s largely about perspective, (and) the place you place your focus,” she mentioned.
“It’s extra process-based than results-based now, and that can assist me get to the outcomes.
“I attempt to construct my schedule the place I feel I can peak within the majors. They’re all the time at the back of my thoughts.
“Proper now I’m simply targeted on getting every thing technically sound and getting again to taking part in kind.”
— NCA NewsWire