Lee<\/a> took a look at the host venue earlier this year and likes what she sees.<\/p>\n\u201cI actually came to see the course in end of January and I saw the course nine holes today and it\u2019s in really great shape and just really looking forward to a nice week of good weather and good crowds and just good vibes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are competitors, but we are also each other\u2019s biggest supporters as well. And I think it\u2019s just nice to be able to cheer on your friends as well as compete on the biggest stages together as well. So I think it\u2019s a little bit of having a piece of home with me all the time, especially when we\u2019re travelling internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the most recent of the trio to hoist a trophy, Green might be most in the spotlight. Yet she says any pressure she feels is self-applied.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely put more pressure on myself than sometimes needed, but I think it\u2019d be nice to actually play at home and back in Adelaide,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like they really enjoy having sporting events here in this state and we got really good crowds when we used to come here before COVID. So I guess they\u2019ve had LIV Golf. We\u2019ve seen the crowds there, so hopefully we can get something similar.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got heaps of Aussies that have come back home to play that play all around the world. So it\u2019s a really nice way for us to start our season, get a nice result early in the year, get some confidence and hopefully build on that for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major winners Hannah Green, Grace Kim and Minjee Lee headline this week\u2019s field as the women\u2019s Australian Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,122462,29528,29527,234505,28635,20776,259217,85,234507,178135],"class_list":["post-532027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-australia","tag-grace-kim","tag-hannah-green","tag-kooyonga-golf-club","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-minjee-lee","tag-patricia-bridges-bowl","tag-sports","tag-womens-australian-open","tag-wpga-tour-of-australasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532027","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=532027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}