By Ian Ransom
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Minjee Lee has challenged her dinky brother Min Woo to emulate her winning win on the LPGA Tour by claiming the PGA Championship this week.
World amount four Minjee made her major leap forward on the Evian Championship last July, two weeks after her brother received the Scottish Originate in a golden fortnight for the family.
Now 25-yr-former Minjee, who received the Founders Cup in Novel Jersey on Sunday, hopes Min Woo can follow her lead by winning his first major in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“We kind of accept as true with fancy, maybe no longer for him, a mute opponents,” she suggested journalists on Tuesday.
“Obviously I no doubt fancy seeing him manufacture smartly and I’m going to make stronger him either intention.
“It’s a dinky little bit of fun for both of us and I’m two-upping him in the meanwhile so he better fetch a switch on.”
Minjee’s myth of seven LPGA wins puts her 23-yr-former brother’s two European Tour titles in the color — but both golfers are abilities to see.
Minjee seen Min Woo’s seemingly up cease at his debut Masters last month the keep he performed tied for 14th and made a broad splash one day of the last round by equalling the lowest entrance nine gain at Augusta with a six-below par 30.
Minjee caddied for her brother one day of the Wednesday Par Three contest sooner than the major and became blown away by the crowds and atmosphere.
With a week off to cheer on her brother, Minjee will rapidly turn her attention to winning her second major on the U.S. Ladies’s Originate at Southern Pines, North Carolina beginning June 2.
Her two-stroke judge over like a flash-charging American Lexi Thompson on the Founders Cup became her first this yr and belated reward after topping the LPGA for lowest scoring moderate (68.89) and rounds in the sixties.
Ranked 28th for putting, improvement on the greens would possibly perhaps well moreover slump a protracted intention to realising her draw of becoming world no 1.
“Obviously it’s on the abet of my mind,” said Minjee of the head ranking held by South Korea’s Ko Jin-young.
“I soundless assume I accept as true with to fabricate moderately a dinky little bit of labor to fetch there. The three majors left this season, these will be my better focal point.”
(Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Bettering by Peter Rutherford)