Min Woo Lee records second consecutive top 3 finish in Europe
Min Woo Lee – file photo Getty Images / European Tour
Min Woo Lee’s second consecutive, third place DP World Tour finish at this week’s Andalucia Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters at the Real Cub Valderrama has improved his standing to 38th in the DP World Tour standings and has him well placed to make the leading 50 players who will play the end of season DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in mid-November.
Lee finished nine shots behind the runaway leader, the Spaniard Adrian Otaegui, but three shots behind the runner-up Joakim Lagergren and the €189,000 he earned and the 299 points to go with his third place have moved him from 62nd to 38th in the standings and with just three events remaining before the World Tour Championship he looks well placed to be in Dubai.
It appears Lee is currently not entered in the next two events in Mallorca and Portugal and so will need to rely on his current position being enough to get him to Dubai but the form he has found should see him as a likely participant and possible contender in Dubai given he finished a very creditable 16th there last year.
Lee’s final round of 70 saw him never closer than five shots from the eventual winner but after a run of indifferent form leading into last week’s tournament in Madrid, he has turned the corner.
The 24-year-old Perth golfer moves to 58th in the world ranking from 73rd two weeks ago.
For Otageui, it was his fourth victory on the DP World Tour and he moves to 95th in the world ranking from outside the top 150 last week.
The Spanish golfer, who played events on the LIV Tour earlier this year, is the first golfer to win on the European Tour as a LIV Tour player.
Maverick Antcliff was the only other Australian to make the weekend and produced his best finish of the year when sharing 21st.
