HE has lengthy been touted as a participant to problem the world’s greatest, with Min Woo Lee delivering on that potential with a win on the Texas Youngsters’s Houston Open.
Lee shot rounds of 66-64-63-67 for a 20-under-par complete across the Memorial Park course in successful by one shot and holding off the problem of former US Open champion Gary Woodland and World Primary Scottie Scheffler.
It was the 26-year-old Lee’s first PGA TOUR victory, in his 56th tour begin.
He was the eighth Australian winner of the Texas Youngsters’s Houston Open and first since Matt Jones in 2014.
“I’m tremendous proud to win,” Lee stated within the post-event press convention. “It was only a very powerful week. It was a type of weeks the place I believe simply every little thing aligned. I’m so proud to be the winner of the trophy.”
Together with the Houston Open trophy, Lee moved to quantity 22 on the Official World Golf Rankings listing, his career-high and his first time inside the highest 25.
Regardless of his slight body, Lee continued to amaze together with his energy off the tee, averaging over 315 yards per drive in Houston, whereas he additionally ranked second within the area in Putts per GIR, and first in birdies made.
Lee would contest the US Masters two weeks later, the place he made the 36-hole lower earlier than ending forty ninth on four-over par for the event.
McIlroy joins an unique membership
WHEN Rory McIlroy rolled in a brief birdie putt on the primary play-off gap at Augusta Nationwide to assert the Masters inexperienced jacket, he etched his identify into the annals of golf historical past by changing into solely the sixth participant ever to finish the profession Grand Slam – the Masters, US Open, The Open and the PGA Championship.
Jack NicklausMajors received: 18 (Masters 6, US Open 4; The Open 3, US PGA 5)Professional wins: 126PGA Tour wins: 73Aged achieved Grand Slam: 26Wins to finish Gram Slam: US Open 1962; the Masters 1963; US PGA 1963; The Open 1966
Tiger WoodsMajors received: 15 (Masters 5, US Open 3; The Open 3, US PGA 4)Professional wins: 149PGA Tour wins: 82Aged achieved Grand Slam: 24Wins to finish Gram Slam: Masters 1997; US PGA 1999; US Open and The Open in 2000
Ben Hogan.
Ben HoganMajors received: 9 (Masters 2, US Open 4; The Open 1, US PGA 2)Professional wins: 71PGA Tour wins: 64Aged achieved Grand Slam: 41Wins to finish Gram Slam: US PGA 1946; US Open 1948; the Masters 1951; The Open 1953
Gary PlayerMajors received: 9 (Masters 3, US Open 1; The Open 3, US PGA 2)Professional wins: 159PGA Tour wins: 24Aged achieved Grand Slam: 29Wins to finish Gram Slam: The Open 1959; Masters 1961, US PGA 1962; US Open 1965
Gene SarazenMajors received: 7 (Masters 1, US Open 2; The Open 1, US PGA 3)Professional wins: 48PGA Tour wins: 38Aged achieved Grand Slam: 33Wins to finish Gram Slam: US Open 1922; US PGA 1922; The Open 1932; the Masters 1935
Rory McIlroyMajors received: 5 (Masters 1, US Open 1; The Open 1, US PGA 2)Professional wins: 44PGA Tour wins: 29Aged achieved Grand Slam: 35Wins to finish Gram Slam: US Open 2011, US PGA 2012; The Open 2014; Masters 2025
– Compiled by David Newbery
It’s a loopy sport
IN the April version of Inside Golf we documented the current struggles skilled by Viktor Hovland.
Arguably the most effective participant on the earth on the finish of the 2023 season, Hovland made some modifications to his sport and battled to search out the shape which noticed him win the FedEx Cup and three PGA TOUR occasions all year long.
Nevertheless, in backing up the phrase that type is short-term, class is everlasting, whereas emphasising what a loopy sport golf will be, Hovland bounced again in model with a formidable win within the Valspar Championship in Florida in late March.
He wasn’t satisfied he was all the way in which again to a time when seemingly in competition each week, though beating Justin Thomas down the stretch in a Sunday showdown, for Hovland there was definitely some gentle on the finish of what had been a fairly darkish tunnel.
“It’s been fairly the wrestle the previous 12 months and a half, so for me to come back again and win this event is kind of unbelievable,” Hovland expressed following his Valspar victory.
“I used to be not very hopeful with my sport main into this week and simply goes to indicate this sport is fairly loopy.”
Hovland’s win on the Valspar got here only one week after posting 80 on the opening day of The Gamers to be final amongst the 144-man area.
“I imply, capturing 80 isn’t enjoyable, particularly at THE PLAYERS Championship,” an sincere and forthright Hovland stated.
Hovland backed up his win with a tie for twenty first at The Masters.
Brief sport guru Pelz passes away
A Nasa scientist who grew to become some of the profitable coaches within the historical past of golf, Dave Pelz handed away on March 23, aged 85.
A grasp of the quick sport, Pelz college students received greater than 20 main championship titles between them.
The highest gamers flocked to Pelz, included amongst them Tom Kite, Vijay Singh, Payne Stewart, Mike Weir, Patrick Reed, Michelle Wie and Colin Montgomerie. However his most profitable pupil was Phil Mickelson, who first requested for classes in 2003.
Arguably golf’s most celebrated quick sport coach Dave Pelz not too long ago handed away, aged 85.
As much as that time, Mickelson had round 20 event wins however was winless in 43 majors. The Pelz impact was instant, and within the subsequent three years he received the Masters twice and the US PGA as soon as. He would go on to win three extra majors, together with the Open Championship in 2013.
David Thomas Pelz was born on October 8 1939 in Indianapolis and attended Indiana College on a four-year golf scholarship, majoring physics. Throughout his pupil years he reportedly performed Jack Nicklaus 22 occasions – and misplaced each spherical.
In 1999, he revealed Dave Pelz’s Brief Recreation Bible, whereas the next 12 months’s Dave Pelz’s Placing Bible bought greater than 150,000 copies in its first 12 months available on the market.
