Min Lee (born 3 June 1995) is a Taiwanese

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who plays on the

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Early life and amateur career

Lee started playing golf at the age of 12 years old and is a skilled pianist. She was a member of the Taiwan National Team and won two tournaments on the 2012 China Amateur Golf Tour, at Qinhuangdao and Chongqing.

Professional career

Lee turned professional in 2012 and was Rookie of the Year on the 2014 Symetra Tour and finished 5th in the rankings, earning promotion to the

. In 2015, she finished T12 at the

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and 68th on the LPGA Tour money list. In 2016, she dropped to 94th and in 2017 to 128th. In 2019, she was back on the Symetra Tour where she won the Valley Forge Invitational. Lee has also won four tournaments on the Taiwan LPGA Tour and won the 2018 China Women's Open on the China LPGA Tour. Lee spent 2020 home in Taiwan due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Back on the LPGA Tour in 2021, she was runner-up behind Matilda Castren at the 2021

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, the week after she won the Mission Inn Resort & Club Championship on the Symetra Tour. These performances saw her rise to 119 in the

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, which helped her qualify for the

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in Tokyo.

Professional wins (9)

Symetra Tour wins (3)

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Garden City Charity Classic *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Valley Forge Invitational *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Mission Inn Resort and Club Championship

China LPGA Tour wins (1)

*2018 China Women's Open

Taiwan LPGA Tour wins (5)

*2016 TLPGA Open *2017 Hitachi Ladies Classic *2018 Taiwan Mobile Ladies Open *2020 Party Golfers Ladies Open *2021 WPG Ladies Open

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

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