Minjee Lee | 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

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tommy didn’t win okay 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Champion Mi Lee joins us now mji congratulations how does it feel to now be a threetime major champion uh it feels pretty amazing um I feel like I really deserve this one um and I put a lot of hard work into it so yeah I feel I feel really good great we’ll open it up for questions starting right here with Jim Mi might sound weird but in some ways you shot 68 Saturday but 74 today does today’s round speak more to what’s inside you and you know what you have um I think every single day it was a bit of a grind um even yesterday’s score I had three under and today I had what two over wait did I have two over three over two over two over um but I feel like they were all equally as important like I needed to do them on those certain days to ultimately have that um trophy um in my hand come today so um yes I feel like today today’s score um I had to really dig deep for it but I feel like I was pretty solid over the four days to you know um have this trophy in my hand now sarah obviously you’ve won majors before but um to win this one three other Aussies have won this this trophy what does it mean to just join um Jan Ki and Hannah um I think it’s it’s pretty awesome i mean um all of them are such great golfers um great careers um and obviously Hannah she’s still on tour um with me so um it’s also great to have a friend um who has won this trophy so I just think it’s great to be able to um have my name um up with them and um yeah it’s pretty cool i know your putting has been a big thing but what have you and and Richie been working on ahead of this week um I think I was just going a little bit inside with my putter so I was just trying to keep it on plane and take it more straight back and straight forward so um it was a little bit difficult in this wind um but you know at the end of the day I still parted really well to um be able to win so I I guess that work has paid off a little bit bethanne yeah congratulations a after a slower start what did you tell yourself to turn it around and especially with the putter um you know the putting was not really the issue um I was missing the green and then it put pressure on my chipping and my putting so I just was like let’s try and first hit the fairway and then hit the green so I just try to be really simple out there and you know it’s it was just so tough with the wind so um just try to take it one step at a time and you know some of the drives that I hit were really terrible out there but um I was able to you know either get up and down make bogey nothing like not have a score that was too large to come back from so I think I managed myself really well out there today and I knew um the 14th and the 15th hole would be birdie opportunities so just try to stay patient and um you know try not just try to make pass um until those holes so and I think I did that pretty well what’ your brother say to you i I saw um I was just on the broadcast and he uh he said a really nice message um he just said well done he’s proud of me and um that he loved me josh Mji congratulations now that you’re a three-time major winner 11 wins on tour do you have like do you set big goals for yourself like career goals career grand slam hall of fame like what what is the next thing for Mji Lee the next thing is Evian I guess um that’s my next stop on tour so um you know my I don’t really set goals that um like I’m going to win three majors or you know trying to have three wins or I I just stick to more of my processes and you know one of my big goals was to get the the putter um improve improve on the putting stats so I think I’ve been doing that and um so I’m just you know taking it one step at a time i’m gonna enjoy this win and then I’ll um sit down with my coach and you know talk to him on the phone um see where we are going to go after this one brad I know there’s a lot of excitement back in Australia and it’s significant from that standpoint but uh you had a pretty big gallery out and looked like you had a lot of friends and I wondered if there’s any significance from your standpoint the fact that you’ve made your second home here and you had Yeah I mean um I had a few of my housing people when I first um came to Dallas and played in the Volunteers of America event I um stayed with Jake and Jill um and they came out to watch and tell one of their close friends and um my mom and her friends were out there and a couple of my other friends so it was just nice to see familiar faces um you know out there and um I don’t really get it too too often you know obviously when I’m in Australia and playing in Australia I have a lot of you know um friendly faces but not as not so much in America so it it’s just nice a little bit of comfort um comfort in a place in a different country um which I al now kind of base myself um is really nice it was it was a great support thank you all right yeah i know you’re doing your thing and he’s doing his thing but can you just talk a little bit about about what a rarity that is for both you and your brother to be as successful on your respective tours as you have been um yeah I mean as a professional golfer we put so much time and our effort um into perfecting our game and I feel like Minw has really matured over the years and really um trying is try is figuring out what works best for him um on tour like his schedule like just even practice and I think he’s grown up a lot and I I love to see um his journey and how well he’s doing out on on the PGA And you know I’m pretty much a vet now on the LPGA um 11 years feels like a long time um so I I feel like I’m you know I I have my routine downpack now like I I know what I’m doing i just need to you know do what I know best and um try and replicate that every week so it’s just really great to see Minw doing doing good um you know in the States on the PJ tour as well you guys are totally different personalitywise but is that just showing golf that a lot of different ways can succeed there’s not just one way to succeed out here and a lot there’s a lot of ways to succeed oh yeah i mean definitely there’s not I don’t think there’s one person who has the same personality who plays golf and who has won so I feel like there’s a lot of things that I can learn from a lot of different personalities who um who have won on tour on the PGA and LPJ respectfully um yeah I mean I don’t think there’s one perfect combination for for you to win on tour so I think there’s a lot of different thing that different things that have to go your way um and it’s so hard to win on win on tour now so I I think um yeah it’s just really great to be able to have the KPMG trophy in my hands we’ll go next to Jill on Zoom go ahead Jill um congrats Mi can you sort of describe the pride you have in in uh your journey with with putting from you know winning uh 10 tournaments in the two majors to changing your putter uh and then now to winning another major um with this putter uh yeah so when I won um the last at Evian and US Open I was leftand low so I wasn’t even a conventional grip so um I I guess I changed quite a bit over my 11 years on tour and um just changing to the broomstick has given me a lot more freedom i think I was just um I guess I just had a lot of thoughts and just I I was think overthinking probably about just the conventional way of putting so I think um just taking my hands a little more out of it and using the broomstick has really been helping me okay and then also you had mentioned uh on the broadcast that you looked at every leaderboard uh can you kind of talk about the confidence you seem to have and just you know knowing where you were and and uh and still obviously playing so well um I was I yes I did look at every leaderboard and I knew exactly where I was um in terms of like the scores um but I just want to be clear like I definitely was nervous um you know starting the day i’m I’m not I wasn’t really sure if it was the heat that was making me like my heartbeat more but um I was definitely you know I looked calm but I was like not as calm as everybody thinks thank you another question from Zoom in the chat mi can you speak a bit more on how it feels to join just three other Aussies as three-time major winners yeah I mean I it’s just really special i think it’s only a three other names on this trophy so that are Australian so I think it’s just such a great privilege to be able to have my name up with them as well and just shows um I guess it shows the grit of the Aussies and um yeah it’s just really just really special means a lot right Tony on Zoom go ahead Tony hey Miy congratulations thanks Tony um I wanted to ask I’ve been in touch with Richie how hard did he have to work to convince you to uh switch that putter out i think he would say it he he would say a lot but when I did switch it I think he like mentioned it to me like twice and I just was like mucking around with it so um I would say it was a good change he didn’t have to um he didn’t have to tell me too many times after the first two what did you need to feel I guess to feel comfortable with it um I think just for me it was um taking the hands out of the putter um just using my hands too much so I was like manipulating the actual putter to the break so I think for me it was just using more of my shoulders to hit hit the point where I thought it was going to break and not like making it break so um yeah I think just lastly for me is the career grand slam something you would like to achieve is that something that kind of drives you at all um I mean that is my ultimate goal like I really wanted to be in the Hall of Fame that’s why I started golf and um that’s why I wanted to be on the LPJ tour to you know win a bunch of tournaments and try and get into it um but seeing Lydia do it I think it just you know I would really like to get there but we’ll see how we go after after this week congrats again thank you Miji when you started earlier you said that you deserve to win this one is this something to do with just what you’ve all been through this week or is this one different than the other ones you des that you’ve won the other two majors you’ve won um I think it it’s very different because I feel like um I had a lot of doubt the past few years um just not with I guess with my long game but more with like my my putting and I think the more I heard like the media and other people saying things about my putting I was I think it got to me more and more over over time so yeah I think it I think this one just means a little bit more to me um I mean obviously the US Open is my absolute favorite but it’s in terms of my most deserved i think this one is the one you said you were kind of keeping up with where you were and I know right before the two birdies are the ones you said you’d waited for at 13 you had that clutch par did you realize somebody had just eagled that if you had not it would have been a one stroke um if somebody somebody had just eagled Oh they did um that I didn’t know but um I was just I just couldn’t believe how slow that putt was um on the par three so I was like I don’t think I could have had a bigger swing to get it to the hole and I was still I don’t even know seven eight feet short so yeah no I was really just focused on trying to make the par putt and I think that was quite clutch sarah just when you look at the people that showered you with champagne a couple of them are some younger Aussies what does it mean to you to inspire the next generation of both Aussie golfers and just girls in golf period that might have been watching you today um yeah i I mean I’ll just say like never give up um and also like all the Aussie girls I think we’ve um I think over time we’ve got I’ve gotten to know them quite a bit more and um just to see them all come out and support it was just really lovely and Whailing was there and you know Hannah and um all the Osteos and my team um Brent mom um so it was just it was just so nice that everybody came to you know celebrate with me and it’s just it’s those moments I mean Lids was there and um it’s just those moments that are the most special and just mean so much wrap things up with Beth Anne mj you’ve played on a lot of different major championship venues and a lot of different conditions what was the most challenging part of this one oh the wind the wind for sure um and the heat it wasn’t even like the golf course layout itself i mean I think it was it was fine and it’s just it was just the wind was so heavily influencing the ball that the pin placement some of them just felt like you just couldn’t get near it so I think just the wind was the biggest factor this week great thanks for your time congratic