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European Tour: Getting Acquainted With Min Woo Lee

By Matt Coles

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JANUARY 11: Min Woo Lee of Australia tees on the 17th hole during the third round of the South African Open at Randpark Golf Club on January 11, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JANUARY 11: Min Woo Lee of Australia tees on the 17th hole during the third round of the South African Open at Randpark Golf Club on January 11, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images) /
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With the COVID-19 virus postponing all forms of professional golf for the foreseeable future, we are taking a look at some of this season’s stars of the European Tour.

In this piece, we take a look at Australia’s Min Woo Lee, who became one of the newest winners on the European Tour, with his victory on home soil in Geelong in February.

Factfile – Min Woo Lee

Date of Birth: 27.07.1998

Nationality: Australian

Turned Pro: 2019

Highest WR: 129th (February 2020)

Best RTD: 117th (2019)

ET Wins: 1 (2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open)

Min Woo Lee was born and raised in Perth in Western Australia, and he had a very successful amateur career before turning professional at the start of 2019.

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His first amateur title came at the age of 15, when he lifted the Drummond Junior in 2013, a tournament the Aussie then won for the next two years as well. 2015 was a breakout year for Lee, who also took the Western Australia Amateur and Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship titles along with the Drummond Junior for a third year in a row.

When Lee won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2016, he joined older sister Minjee Lee as a winner of a USGA junior championship, with the pair becoming the first brother/sister duo to have that accolade.

The Australian went on to take the Western Australia Amateur for a second time in 2017, before winning the South Australia Amateur Classic a year later. He then turned professional at the start of 2019.

He achieved two top-five finishes in his first four starts on the European Tour, including a solo 4th place finish at the Saudi International powered by SBIA. Two weeks later, Lee came home in a tie for 5th on home soil at the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth.

After that, though, the Aussie only finished inside the top 20 twice more on the European Tour in the 2019 season, with good results at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters and the Volvo China Open.

His form returned in the final few months of the season, with three top-ten finishes, including one on the European Tour. Lee came home in a tie for 6th at the Genesis Championship, a Korean Tour event, before then finishing in solo 3rd on the PGA Tour of Australasia, at the AVJennings NSW Open.

Three weeks later, and on his first appearance on the European Tour in the 2020 campaign, he finished in a tie for 3rd. Once again, it came on home soil, at the Australian PGA Championship. Lee then finished in a tie for 15th at the South African Open hosted by the City of Johannesburg before making the breakthrough in early February.

The Australian won his maiden professional title, as he claimed victory at the ISPS Handa Vic Open, an event co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia. Once again, he followed in the footsteps of his sister, who won the adjoining event, the Women’s Victorian Open, in both 2014 and 2018.

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Lee has a bright future ahead of him, at just 21 years of age, and is one of nine Australians currently inside the top 150 on the Official World Golf Rankings.

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