Hungry for a rare career grand slam, a refreshed Minjee Lee has arrived at the Women’s British Open ready to confront head-on the beauty and the beast that is Royal Porthcawl.<\/p>\n
Women’s Open<\/p>\n
Australian round one tee times<\/p>\n
Grace Kim: 5:09pmMinjee Lee: 5:31pmHannah Green: 5:47pmGabriela Ruffels: 5:58pmKirsten Rudgeley: 6:31pmKaris Davidson: 7:26pmSteph Kyriacou: 10:32pmHira Naveed: 11:49pmCassie Porter: 00:22am*<\/p>\n
All times AEST. Porter tees off Friday AM Australian time.<\/p>\n
After capturing the third leg of women’s golf’s fabled slam with victory at last month’s PGA Championship, Lee needs an Open triumph and a Chevron Championship to complete the set.<\/p>\n
Americans Mickey Wright, Pat Bradley, Julie Inkster and Louise Suggs, South Korean Inbee Park, great Swede Annika Sorenstam and Australian Karrie Webb are the only players recognised with achieving a career grand slam after winning four different major championships.<\/p>\n
But only the legendary Webb, Australia’s most prolific major winner with seven all up, has completed the “super grand slam” of five different majors.<\/p>\n
After some much-needed rest and recovery and no golf in London, Lee admitted trying to join her childhood idol and mentor was a huge goal.<\/p>\n
“All the majors are a great motivator for me, so yes, I definitely want to win it [the British Open] at some stage and be able to get the career grand slam,” the 29-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“That would be absolutely amazing \u2026 and now that I look back at it right now, this is what I can say: that’s quite a big motivation for me to try and get over the line.”<\/p>\n
With a tie for third behind victorious compatriot Grace Kim at this month’s Evian Championship, a joint 14th at the Chevron and an equal 22nd at the US Open, Lee also enters the week leading the ANNIKA Major Award.<\/p>\n
With another strong finish in Wales, the 2022 recipient could join world number one Nelly Korda (2024) and Ariya Jutanugarn (2018) as only the third player to claim major-player-of-the-year honours twice.<\/p>\n
To do so, Lee knows she will need to be on top of her game at the picturesque seaside layout hosting the Open for the first time.<\/p>\n
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