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Although Min Woo Lee isn’t the most accomplished golfer in his immediate family – that nod goes to his older sister, Minjee Lee, a five-time LPGA winner and former world No 1 amateur – the younger Lee revelled in his bragging rights after winning the European Tour’s ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia on Sunday. The 21-year-old Aussie triumphed at 13th Beach Golf Links shortly after his sister finished T6 in the concurrent women’s ISPS Handa Vic Open – a tournament she has won twice – at the same course.
Canadian Nick Taylor went wire to wire to win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday, outplaying Phil Mickelson on the way to his second PGA Tour title.
Mickelson, who recently had been playing like a man whose glory days had expired, proved during the past two weeks he is not ready to walk into the sunset just yet, writes Ron Green Jr.
Hee Young Park won the women’s ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia on Sunday, making par on the fourth playoff hole to defeat Hye-Jin Choi after So Yeon Ryu had been eliminated on the second extra hole.
Past US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy’s advocacy of mixed-gender tournaments was further fodder suggesting that the idea’s time has come in golf, writes Steve Eubanks.
The joint release by the R&A and the USGA of their long-awaited Distance Insights Report last week sparked varied reactions and stirred hope of meaningful compromise in the quest to rein in the impact of increased hitting distance on the game, writes Jim Nugent.
Jason Day, the past world No 1 who arrived at Pebble Beach ranked 46th, finished fourth, his best result in a year.
The LPGA announced late Sunday it has cancelled two upcoming tournaments in Asia – the Honda LPGA Thailand and the HSBC Women’s World Championship – due to continued concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.
South African teenager Martin Vorster lived up to his billing as one of his country’s rising stars when he won against a strong international field in the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, where he defeated England’s Olly Huggins on the fourth play-off hole, writes Colin Callander.
A man who embodied the welcoming spirit of Irish golf has gone on to his great reward, this week’s instalment of The Divot reports.
Mike Cullity
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