Min Woo Lee (born 27 July 1998) is an Australian

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who plays on the European Tour. He turned professional at the start of 2019 after a successful amateur career. He won the 2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open and the 2021

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Professional career

Lee turned professional at the start of 2019. He played a number of events on the European Tour and had early success, finishing 4th in the Saudi International and tied for 5th in the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth, both events played in February. These were, however, his only top-10 finishes of the season and he finished 117th in the Order of Merit. In October he was tied for 6th in the

Genesis Championship The Genesis Championship is a men's professional golf tournament in South Korea. The inaugural event was held at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea from 21 to 24 September 2017. Prize money was KRW1,500,000,000, the largest for any Korean Tour eve ...

on the Korean Tour. At the end of the year he was solo 3rd in the

AVJennings NSW Open The New South Wales Open is an annual golf tournament held in New South Wales, Australia. The event was founded in 1931 as the New South Wales Close Championship, being restricted to residents of New South Wales, becoming the New South Wales Ope ...

and then tied for 3rd in the Australian PGA Championship, an early season event on the

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. In February 2020 he won the ISPS Handa Vic Open, an event co-sanctioned with by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia. In July 2021, Lee defeated Thomas Detry and Matt Fitzpatrick in a playoff at the

. With this win, he earned entry into the 2021 Open Championship.

Personal life

Lee's parents, Soonam and Clara Lee, were both from Korea, and emigrated to Australia in the early 1990s. Lee's older sister, Minjee Lee, is also a professional golfer. When Min Woo Lee won the 2016

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, they became the first brother/sister pair to win the USGA's junior championships, Minjee Lee having won the U.S. Girls' Junior in 2012.

Amateur wins

*2013 Drummond Junior *2014 Drummond Junior *2015 Western Australia Amateur, Drummond Junior, Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship *2016

*2017 Western Australia Amateur *2018 South Australia Amateur Classic Source:

Professional wins (2)

European Tour wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia European Tour playoff record (1–0)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in The Players Championship

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.

Team appearances

Amateur * Nomura Cup (representing Australia): 2017 *

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(representing Asia/Pacific): 2018 (winners) * Eisenhower Trophy (representing Australia):

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* Sloan Morpeth Trophy (representing Australia): 2016 (winners)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Minwoo Australian male golfers PGA Tour of Australasia golfers European Tour golfers Golfers from Perth, Western Australia Australian people of Korean descent 1998 births Living people