{"id":566650,"date":"2026-03-28T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:45:18","slug":"min-woo-lee-has-a-complaint-about-the-golf-course-at-the-houston-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566650\/","title":{"rendered":"Min Woo Lee has a complaint about the golf course at the Houston Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Min Woo Lee is looking to defend his Houston Open title this week, and he\u2019s in a great position to do so. <\/p>\n

The Australian, in search of his second PGA Tour win, is four shots off the leading Gary Woodland heading into the weekend at nine-under par. He shot a phenomenal second round 63 to thrust himself into contention.<\/p>\n

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But despite his Friday performance, which featured a clean scorecard with five birdies and an eagle, Lee has a complaint about the golf course which he has blamed for a couple of wayward shots.<\/p>\n

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Min Woo Lee\u2019s complaint about the fairways at Memorial Park<\/p>\n

Lee<\/a> said after his opening round that he was pulling shots with his irons. When asked about this after his second round on Friday, Lee blamed the length of the grass on the fairways.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI probably only pulled one or two today, and yesterday I felt like I pulled 90 percent of my shots. And they all felt like good swings, which was a bit strange so I thought there was something up there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, just thought the fairway was \u2014 there\u2019s a little bit more growth on it than the range and balls were I guess teed up a tiny bit, and for a drawer, you want the ball to start right but mine was starting a lot straighter than I wanted to.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, just something to keep in the back of my head. Yeah, today was a bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems that no matter what the issue was, he\u2019s on top of it now and ready to challenge the top of the leaderboard once again at this event.<\/p>\n

Min Woo Lee targets one area for improvement at the Houston Open<\/p>\n

\u201cDr Chipinski\u201d is usually clinical around the greens, but that hasn\u2019t been the case so far this week in Houston. Statistically, he\u2019s played well around the greens, but Lee said he\u2019s still looking to hone in on his chipping.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u201cI would say my chipping wasn\u2019t actually that good yesterday so I did a bit of chipping yesterday. The lies are kind of awkward. The ball seems like it\u2019s sitting up, but there\u2019s a little bit of grain and a little bit of thatchiness into the grass.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see like a few guys, when they \u2014 even such a simple chip, you think it\u2019s pretty easy but it comes out with no spin and it rolls out. Maybe same as chipping, I did clean it up a little bit today, but yeah, if that can be tidy and my approach play can be solid, I think it will be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee gained 1.93 strokes around the green during his second round, which is much improved from Thursday, when he actually lost 0.35 strokes.<\/p>\n

Clearly, it took some time for him to become accustomed to the conditions, but his poor play with his wedges was unlikely to continue with his elite feel around the greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Min Woo Lee is looking to defend his Houston Open title this week, and he\u2019s in a great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,207137,622,33233,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-566650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gary-woodland","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-min-woo-lee","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}