Min Woo Lee wins Australian PGA Championship by 3 shots

Min Woo Lee performed among the finest pictures of his life after which donned a chef’s hat to play crowd-pleaser in a profession spotlight Australian PGA Championship win.

A bogey on the final dropped him to 20-under for the match, however the West Australian’s fourth profession win had been all however sealed by an excellent chip-in from 50 metres for eagle on the ninth on Sunday.

That put 4 pictures between him and nearest rival Rikuya Hoshino (67, 68, 64, 68) on the flip who ended up three behind in second place at 17-under.

A bogey on the tenth was a uncommon blip, with Lee (64, 66, 66, 68) once more chipping inside a metre of the twelfth to reinstate the buffer and cap a dominant week at Brisbane’s Royal Queensland.

There have been actually no indicators of nerves after he received up-and-down for par on the seventeenth.

Lee donned a chef’s hat in a nod to his ‘Let Him Cook dinner’ motto, main a clap with the group then operating to the 18th tee to drill his tee shot down the center of the golf green.

He discovered a greenside bunker and missed the putt to drop a shot and end two wanting the match document of 22-under set by Jed Morgan early final yr.

Lee was 12 beneath on the par fives throughout the match in marching to his second title in his previous 4 begins following a wire-to-wire Macau Open victory.

“It is No.1 for certain. Scottish (Open) was huge, Vic Open’s huge however proper now that is the highest in entrance of Australia, my household,” he stated referencing his earlier predominant triumphs.

“It was particular. I have been ready for thus lengthy to play very well in Australia.

“I knew it was coming, it was only a ‘when’ query.”

Marc Leishman carded a seven-under 64 on Sunday to surge into third forward of Curtis Luck (15 beneath).

Adam Scott (12 beneath) stood nonetheless after he’d cruised into title competition on the match’s halfway level to complete sixth and proceed his close to four-year title drought.

The 25-year-old Lee had barely put a foot flawed throughout three days of golf on the riverside venue, seemingly not hitting prime gear till he wanted some magic on Sunday.

Going proper along with his first shot on the par 5 ninth, Lee squeezed a shot beneath some bushes and remained proper of the massive inexperienced.

His chip bounced thrice and checked, curling into the cup to ship the massive gallery and people gathered across the ninth inexperienced wild for the charismatic rising star.

Lee, youthful brother of three-time Greg Norman Medallist Minjee, celebrated too, ranking it “in all probability among the finest pictures I’ve hit”.

“That was in all probability the perfect environment shot I’ve ever hit … among the finest pictures of my life,” he stated.

“I in all probability have not screamed louder than that ever.

“That was positively the turning level and I felt actually good about it.”

Defending champion Cameron Smith crashed out after two forgettable rounds and spent the weekend engaged on his placing over the weekend forward of the Australian Open, which begins in Sydney on Thursday.

Chile’s Joaquin Niemann (13 beneath) landed an ace on the fourth gap simply after Hoshino had erased Lee’s in a single day lead of three pictures in a manic opening half-hour of play.

However Lee steadied, virtually holing an ace of his personal on that very same gap to shortly reinstate some respiration area.