{"id":943776,"date":"2026-10-28T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:18:20","slug":"too-good-min-woo-lee-backs-star-sister-to-bounce-back-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943776\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Too good’: Min Woo Lee backs star sister to bounce back \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Min Woo Lee is backing his superstar sister to emerge from the worst funk of an illustrious career and regain her place among women\u2019s golf\u2019s greatest forces.<\/p>\n

After capturing a third major championship last year, Minjee Lee has slumped to 17th in the world rankings after missing six straight cuts in 2026 while seemingly seeking golf perfection.<\/p>\n

For all her successes, Lee felt compelled to make swing adjustment -after also switching equipment sponsors and changing clubs \u2013 in her quest to join an elite group of golf legends to complete a rare career grand slam.<\/p>\n

\"(L-R)Min Woo Lee believes it won\u2019t be long before his older sister is again tearing up the LPGA Tour. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

To date, though, the decision has proven disastrous results-wise with Lee having not finished better than a tie for 28th in her past 14 tournaments since April.<\/p>\n

Younger brother Min Woo on Wednesday revealed Minjee had opted out of this week\u2019s LPGA Tour event in Malaysia in a concerted effort to reset.<\/p>\n

For the first time in more than a decade, Lee is almost certain to miss qualifying for the LPGA\u2019s season-ending Tour Championship, an $US11 million ($A16 million) showpiece featuring only the top 60 in the year-long points race.<\/p>\n

But Min Woo is adamant the 30-year-old will \u201cbe back\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"MinjeeA short break is what Minjee Lee hopes can help kick-start her stalling season. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s just going through a couple of swing changes and always it\u2019s very tougher,\u201d the men\u2019s PGA Tour star told AAP on a Zoom call on Wednesday after confirming he was returning to headline the fields at 2026 Australian Open and PGA Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all ask \u2018why?\u2019, but we all want to get better and, although this year has been very tough for her, I think she\u2019s going to bounce back \u2013 she\u2019s too good to not bounce back.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it it sucks to not see her at the name at the top of the leaderboard (but she can) get a little bit of a motivation back, and have a bit of a break and get back into it and be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee is uncharacteristically languishing in 78th in the season points race with only three tournaments left before next month\u2019s Tour Champ Championship in Florida.<\/p>\n

Her Perth stablemate Hannah Green, in 12th spot, is the only Australian certain to qualify for the season finale in Naples from November 19-22.<\/p>\n

But fellow major winner Grace Kim (48th) and Sydney\u2019s Cassie Porter (47th) also look likely.<\/p>\n

Karis Davidson (58th) and Robyn Choi (74th) are also hoping to boost their chances at this week\u2019s Maybank Championship in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

\"Australia'sMin Woo Lee has some big plans of his own for late 2026. (Jason O\u2019BRIEN\/AAP PHOTOS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Winner of the 2023 Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane, Min Woo Lee has joined a formidable field for this years\u2019 event being staged in Sydney for the first time since 1998.<\/p>\n

After finishing fourth in the recent season-ending PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta, Lee is eager to bring down the likes of two-time defending Masters champ Rory McIlroy and 2026 British Open winner Ryan Fox to have his name etched on the Stonehaven Cup at Melbourne\u2019s famed Kingston Heath course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys are going to bring their A game and I\u2019m sure they want to win too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re all going to be fighting for the trophy at the end of the week. They\u2019re all good golfers and they all know how to get the ball in the hole, so let\u2019s see during the week and hopefully I\u2019ll be answering questions to you afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Min Woo Lee is backing his superstar sister to emerge from the worst funk of an illustrious career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,430219,755,5488,20776,673,85,12632],"class_list":["post-943776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-domestic-sport","tag-golf","tag-min-woo-lee","tag-minjee-lee","tag-new-south-wales","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943776","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=943776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}