Min Woo Lee shares Players Championship lead
Min Woo Lee – continues liking for TPC Sawgrass
Minwoo Lee has a share of the halfway lead at the Players Championship, the 26 year old West Australian looking to improve on his 6th place finish on debut in this event two years ago.
Lee added a second round 66 to his opening 67 to bet at 11 under par and along with Akshay Bhatia one ahead of J.J Spaun.
Other than a missed cut at last week’s Arnold Palmer Championship Lee has been in solid form in PGA Tour starts this season and with the benefit of an impressive debut over the demanding TPC Sawgrass two years ago he produced seven birdies before making a mess of his final hole (the par 5 9th).
When asked why he plays so well at the TPC Sawgrass when so many of the game’s leading players often struggle Lee repied; “I think I’m not sure why, but I think my 2-iron, I’m using that a lot and it’s a pretty good weapon of mine.
“So I can kind of draw it and hit it straight and it goes a long way. When I hit it good it goes, ends up going a long way. That helps. Then you have short clubs into holes, so, yeah I would love to hit 2-iron everywhere but obviously you can’t, some holes and, yeah, I think that’s it. The 2-iron.”
Lee knows the conditions over the weekend are expected to be tough with gusty winds up to 30 m.p.h.
“It will be tough. We got the text message yesterday from the TOUR saying that they’re going to adjust the course to it. It is, again, it’s a tough course even without wind, and it’s intimidating. There will be holes where obviously it will be downwind and some that are into, so there’s going to be holes that could be easier, but holes that could be a lot harder. Again, just hopefully keep playing good golf and see how it goes.”
With the withdrawal of Jason Day just ahead of the tournament due to illness, the remaining five Australasians suffered mixed results.
Ryan Fox made his second cut in now three starts in the event but Adam Scott missed the weekend by three, last week’s winner in Puerto Rico, Karl Vilips, by seven shots and Cam Davis by a massive 13 shots.
Pre-tournament favourite Scottie Scheffler is at 5 under par and six from the lead, but former winner Rory McIlroy is just two from the lead and appearing rather threatening as the closing 36 holes approaches.
