{"id":38331,"date":"2022-06-06T02:31:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/minjee-lee-wins-us-womens-open\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T02:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:31:01","slug":"minjee-lee-wins-us-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/minjee-lee-wins-us-womens-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Minjee Lee wins US Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<p>Lee, who is from Australia, took a three-shot lead into the final round over Harigae, having broken a 23-year-old record with her 54-hole score of 200 after shooting a 67 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament took place at Pine Needles Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina &#8211; the fourth time the venue has hosted the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old got her final round off to an ideal start with a comfortable birdie on the first hole, followed by another on the second as she drained a 30-foot putt.<\/p>\n<p>Lee wobbled slightly on holes five and seven as she made bogeys, but recovered her composure to follow those errors with four pars and a birdie. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<p>After 12 holes, the world&#8217;s fourth ranked golfer was six shots clear of the field and from there cruised towards the Harton S. Semple Trophy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"el__image--fullwidth js__image--fullwidth\">\n<div><noscript><img alt=\"Minjee Lee kisses the Harton S. Semple Trophy after she won the final round of the US Women &#038; # 39; s Open golf tournament.\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220605184753-01-minjee-lee-us-womens-open-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_7C408525-45B6-CFF0-960D-367D11E70D36\">The win represents the eighth LPGA Tour victory of Lee&#8217;s career, and her second major, after she won the Evian Championship in 2021. Lee received $ 1.8 million for her victory,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1533602074381979648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the largest prize in women&#8217;s golf history<\/a>the LPGA tweeted Sunday.<\/div>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s younger brother and fellow professional golfer Min Woo Lee took to Twitter Sunday to congratulate his sister. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one hits hard. Tears in my eyes,&#8221; he tweeted.  &#8220;So so proud. Just a kid from Perth. Two major wins to her name di lei now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee, who is from Australia, took a three-shot lead into the final round over Harigae, having broken a 23-year-old record with her 54-hole score of 200 after shooting a 67 on Saturday. The tournament took place at Pine Needles Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina &#8211; the fourth time the venue has hosted the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/minjee-lee-wins-us-womens-open\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minjee Lee wins US Women&#8217;s Open<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[2966,17757],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220605184757-03-minjee-lee-us-womens-open-super-tease.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}