{"id":485721,"date":"2026-02-17T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:25:13","slug":"in-form-minjee-lee-has-major-golf-dreams-ahead-but-aims-to-stay-in-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485721\/","title":{"rendered":"In-form Minjee Lee has major golf dreams ahead but aims to \u2018stay in the present\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Minjee Lee begins her 12th season on the LPGA Tour next week reinvigorated by the prospect of facing opponents who seemingly get ever younger and by a determination to \u201cstay in the present\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After a couple of difficult years, the Australian had quite the 2025, winning her third major title at the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship and finishing inside the top 10 eight times, earning herself US$3.9 million in the process.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She gets her 2026 campaign under way at the HSBC Women\u2019s World Championship in Singapore, with a place in the hall of fame and a potential career grand slam still high on the list of priorities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 29-year-old is halfway to the 27 points she needs for the former, and with two points available for winning a major, there is a little extra motivation in the chase of the two that still elude her: the Chevron Championship and AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p>First, though, is the season opener at Sentosa Golf Club and the challenge of taking on the likes of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/golf\/article\/3300722\/hsbc-womens-world-championship-untroubled-lydia-ko-adds-singapore-title-collection?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defending champion Lydia Ko<\/a>, two-time major winner Yuka Saso and a host of rising stars, among them China\u2019s 16-year-old Liu Yujie, who is enjoying a stellar amateur career.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Defending Singapore champion Lydia Ko is an inspiration as well as a tough rival. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9380da66-f8ee-4bbe-9ccf-fd884aee51a3_8c20ab8f.jpg\" title=\"Defending Singapore champion Lydia Ko is an inspiration as well as a tough rival. Photo: AFP\"\/>Defending Singapore champion Lydia Ko is an inspiration as well as a tough rival. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe LPGA fields and just the fields in general, the talent is so strong now,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd I think our tour has not been in a better place. It\u2019s such a great competition, and it excites me to be able to play against the best and be in that space. And I just feel like it just motivates me to keep on going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minjee Lee begins her 12th season on the LPGA Tour next week reinvigorated by the prospect of facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[28634,1724,64,63,208757,512,755,245853,204891,245850,146405,30658,20776,49419,245851,942,85,245852],"class_list":{"0":"post-485721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-aig-womens-open","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-chevron-championship","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-hsbc-womens-world-championship","16":"tag-kpmg-womens-pga-championship","17":"tag-liu-yujie","18":"tag-lpga-tour","19":"tag-lydia-ko","20":"tag-minjee-lee","21":"tag-paris-olympics","22":"tag-sentosa-golf-club","23":"tag-singapore","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-yuka-saso"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}