Min Woo Lee is fun. He became a threat in his first PGA Tour

Two years ago, Min Woo Lee was Pro Golf’s first real Z Gen Thall.

This is the week of the 2023 Player Championship, and Lee is the last player in the TPC Sawgrass Topsy Turvy field. The long-haired Australia is only 24 years old and plays a conditional position from the DP World Tour, but in the eyes of the golf world, Lee has the best week of his life. He participated in the final pair on Sunday afternoon, showing the drama of the performers and the iron skills of the metalworkers.

He vanished hard on Sunday, shooting the final 76 in his sixth solo, but he reached the 17th hole of the amphitheater with a roaring applause. He opened his eyes wide and watched thousands of fans shouting his name. Lee was a feeling of all night, and he was even a little surprised.

“Where you just have to stop and look at the crowd,” Lee said. “You’re here for a reason. It’s probably most people I’ve seen in a hole when I was 17, so it’s cool.”

Min Woo Lee heard similar clapping in Houston on Sunday afternoon, but this time, he wasn’t interested in feelings.

Why? Lee led a group of the world’s best golfers at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, including a hard-working Sugerty Schefler. A few minutes ago, he was in the only real nervous swing of the week, throwing his t-shirt ball into the water and cutting the lead into one. Now, with one hole left, Lee insists on his dear life. He swung the goal for a long time, sent the ball to the back edge of the green and built a tense uphill, solidified two shots at the biggest moment of his life.

In this position, Lee became the PGA Tour champion for the first time. One third, he made the world’s No. 3 playoffs, the tournament’s unquestionable crowd favorite Gary Woodland. The crowd can wait.

Min Woo Lee waited a long time to get the opportunity. He pulled out the putt and shot the size of the shot. During NBC’s TV broadcast, the course analyst Bones Mackay pointed out one of the trends.

“He’s a great putt, but many people keep leaving these uphills at five to six feet short, up to five feet,” McKay said.

Set the bet. Lee pulled the fader back, watching the ball drip down the green collar, tilting the hole down. When his ball rests, it is far from the flagpole.

Next is one of the great features of golf. Lee unleashes an angry fist pump, the most evocative celebration of his PGA Tour life, which is equivalent to a lag putt. The game continues, but Lee’s victory celebrations are already underway. His caddie removed the flag from the flagpole. Lee pretended to aim as he stood on the 5-inch putter to close it.

In the end, it doesn’t matter. Min Woo Lee is the PGA Tour champion.

“They always say six inches between your ears, and I think that’s a big part of the week,” Lee later said with a smile. “I always feel like I have assets to win, but, can you do it mentally?”

The victory gave Lee’s first game on the PGA Tour Land a decisive moment for this, and so far its Instagram presence rather than its success in the classroom defined. (Lee is not a lazy guy in the latter division, he offers four top 10 and becomes the No. 22 player in the world; it’s just a force he’s been the former, growing into a 700,000 Instagram follower.)

Lee’s celebrations tell the story of his commitment to the golf businessman, but his performance at the time talks about bigger things. Two years of commitment – around physical swing, violent ball speed and global hitting ability – won with a handful of the best players in the world. Questions about Lee’s ability to end the game, capital In the most important case, this ability has been answered.

“I don’t doubt it,” Lee said. “For some reason, this week I just wanted to do my best. Now I know that’s what I need, it’s a grinding.”

Lee left Houston with updated headspace and new stocks. He will wake up at the Masters odds that wake up Monday, as his world is rising by 10 days in just 10 days of the game. He won’t be able to win the world with a comprehensive driving method of winning in Houston, but the problems Lee faces are never able.

After learning to win on the PGA Tour, we see something strange. What we see is strange things, not a player with Lee’s talent and charm, who is eye-catching on the Augustan nationals.

The key is not Min Woo Lee advances to fame. The point is that fame is already here.

Now his golf seems to be catching up.