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This year is no different. And one player in particular has been the focus of many rumors: Australian pro and recent PGA Tour winner Min Woo Lee.<\/p>\n
But in recent comments to the Australian Associated Press<\/a>, Lee put to rest any rumors that he was leaving the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n Min Woo Lee says he\u2019s not joining LIV<\/p>\n Not many pros can lay claim to the distinction of beating world-beater Scottie Scheffler<\/a> in the final holes of a tournament over the past two years. But Lee can.<\/p>\n And he did it in Scheffler\u2019s home state no less.<\/p>\n At the 2025 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open, Lee made a clutch par at the final hole to hold off Gary Woodland and a hard-charging Scheffler and win his first PGA Tour event<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n News <\/a><\/p>\n min woo lee fist pumps at the Houston Open in gray shirt and white hat<\/p>\n The victory vastly improved Lee\u2019s Official World Golf ranking position, seeing him rocket from 55th to 22nd<\/a>.<\/p>\n At 27, Lee is the type of up-and-coming international star LIV Golf would love to see play on its circuit, so rumors that Lee might make the move at the end of this year were ever-present.<\/p>\n Which may have made his comments to the Australian Associated Press surprising to some.<\/p>\n In his interview with the AAP<\/a>, Lee made it clear that he would not be joining LIV and instead would continue to pursue his burgeoning PGA Tour career.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of rumors. I\u2019m not going [to LIV Golf] and am just going to play on the PGA Tour,\u201d Lee said. \u201cSo, I\u2019m happy with where I\u2019m at and, yeah, I\u2019m looking forward to next year.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Lee also revealed that his focus for the rest of the year is to qualify for next year\u2019s majors. He finished 49th at the 2025 Masters, but missed the cuts in the next three majors.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Lee, his Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open win came just two weeks before last year\u2019s Masters, which he was already qualified for. As a result, it did not earn him an invite into the 2026 Masters.<\/p>\n For that, Lee is hoping to maintain his position in the top 50 of the OWGR; he’s currently ranked 46th. And he\u2019s eyeing some big upcoming events in his home country – the Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship, which he won in 2023 – to make it happen.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I never want to miss a major, the Masters especially. It\u2019s one of the biggest tournaments in the world so I\u2019ll do whatever I can to get in,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI\u2019ve just got to play good golf in the Aussie summer and hopefully I can lock it up.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The 2025 Australian PGA Championship is scheduled for November 27-30 at Royal Queensland Golf Club. The 2025 Australian Open goes down the next week, December 4-7, at Royal Melbourne, and Masters champion Rory McIlroy will be in the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Looking forward to next year\u2019: PGA Tour star announces big LIV decision<\/a> appeared first on Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year around this time, rumors start swirling over which PGA Tour players may become the latest to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[149143,149144,31415,427,15837,45313,3332,5758,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-281981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-australian-associated-press","9":"tag-australian-pga-championship","10":"tag-gary-woodland","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-liv","13":"tag-min-woo-lee","14":"tag-pga-tour","15":"tag-scottie-scheffler","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"min](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4e8f2aa7ec53156f90bc461f4eea1520.jpeg\"\/)
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