Minjee Lee

Minjee Lee was 10 years old when she first got into golf. It didn't take long for her talent in the sport to excel, and by 14 she had become a major force within Australian amateur ranks. She won the Western Australia State Amateur Championship in 2010, becoming the youngest ever winner of that event.

Two years later she became the 2012 US junior girls champion.

Minjee claimed consecutive Australian women's amateur titles from 2013 and 2014 which saw her rise to the top of the World Amateur Golf Rankings after winning the Victorian Open.

Having led the Australian team to victory in the 2014 Amateur Team Championship in Japan, Minjee set her sights on turning pro, making her Ladies Professional Golf Association debut at the Évian-les-Bains golf course in September 2014.

In 2015 Minjee won the Kingsmill Championship, her first ever LGPA title. Additionally, she made 23 cuts in the rest of her 28 events, recording six top-10 finishes.

At the 2016 Kia Classic in California, Minjee made a hole-in-one in the third round on the par 4 16th hole.

In her Olympic debut in Rio 2016, Minjee was in strong medal contention after carding 69 and 67 in her opening rounds. She had a difficult round three, scoring 73, but stormed home in round four with 67 to finish just two strokes short of the podium with a total of 276 in equal seventh position.

Minjee posted a 0-2-1 record when she represented the Australian team at the UL International Crown. Her 2016 season resulted in two victories, a LPGA event in Hainan Island in China and the Ewa Beach Championship in Hawaii, as well as six additional top-10 finishes.

In 2017 she recorded 10 top-10 finishes and the following year she earned a career-best 13 top-10 finishes.

In 2018 Minjee won her first of three Greg Norman Medals, becoming the first female golfer to do so. Her biggest victory of 2018 was winning the Volvik Championship in Michigan. Minjee also represented Team Australia for the second time at the International Crown, hosted in South Korea that year.

The 2019 season saw Minjee make 24 of 26 cuts, with a win and eight additional top-10 finishes that included four runner-up performances. In 2020, she made 16 cuts from 16 events and her season’s best was third place at the LPGA Drive On Championship.

Selected for Tokyo in 2021, Minjee became the first dual Olympic Australian golfer. After competitive rounds of 71 and 68, Minjee's third round of 73 put paid to any hope of mounting a challenge for the medals. She finished with 280 strokes, in equal 29th place.

Just two weeks prior to competing in the Tokyo Olympics, Minjee won her first LPGA major, the Evian Championship in France, winning by two strokes in a play-off showdown.

2022 was Minjee’s most fruitful year as a professional golfer after victory in the Founders Cup in May and her second major, the US Women’s Open, in June. During 2022, Minjee also won the Risk Reward Challenge, adding $US1 million to her prize pool tally for the season.

Her success in 2022 left Minjee with a career-best season prize pool of $US3.8 million come year’s end.

2023 followed on in similar fashion for Minjee, where she made 18 out of 18 cuts and added two LGPA event wins to her tally. Those events being the Queen’s City Championship in Ohio and the Ladies Championship held in South Korea. Both events were won in play-offs, highlighting Minjee’s composure in high-pressure situations.

As Paris 2024 approaches Minjee’s prospect for a medal look stronger than ever. She’s maintained a top-10 world ranking for five-straight years and for her LPGA career she’s amassed more than 10 titles, 34 top-three finishes, 71 top-10 finishes and $US14 million in prize money.