When a horde of Australia’s athletes board their boat to cruise down the River Seine for the historic Olympic Video games opening ceremony, Minjee Lee gained’t even be in France.
As an alternative, the world No.12, who will compete in her third Olympics in Paris, can be in Canada, taking part in in an LPGA match, together with Olympic teammate Hannah Inexperienced, an occasion she hopes will present an “up” second in what she described as an “up and down yr” but to yield a win.
The ladies’s golf can be performed after the boys’s occasion, within the second week of the Olympics, with Lee hoping to catch the ultimate spherical of her brother, Min Woo, in his personal quest for a medal in his debut Video games.
However earlier than then Lee is in Calgary, the place the previous world No.2 is eager to re-find {the golfing} mojo that has abandoned her for a lot of 2024, together with her final two occasions, each majors wherein she failed to complete inside the highest 20.
“Very up and down yr thus far. , I’ve had a pair good finishes. Aside from that, I really feel just like the rating and the way I’m hitting it and taking part in hasn’t actually matched up and actually proven in my outcomes,” she stated.
“So it may be irritating at occasions, nevertheless it’s golf, and also you simply received to maintain chipping away on it. Particularly with altering gear and issues like that. It sort of takes time so that you can discover the fitting match for your self. Particularly altering balls and doing quite a lot of testing over the yr.
“So going a bit of bit backwards and forwards there looking for the fitting match for me.
“Possibly the outcomes haven’t been nearly as good to earlier years, however I do know it’s simply across the nook.”
Lee stated she put the jam-packed big-event schedule with two majors main in to the Olympics in perspective, refusing to “get too forward of myself” regardless of the lure of huge wins.
“I really feel like I simply all the time attempt to come again to the fundamentals and never attempt to overcomplicate issues,” she stated.
“I’ve actually excessive expectations similar to all people else for myself. I simply really feel like if I get too forward of myself and get misplaced in these sort of ideas, it makes it that a lot worse.”
Lee revealed she had performed the Olympics golf course, Le Golf Nationwide, and would go to the village to get her Video games really feel however wouldn’t be staying there.
“I’m not truly staying within the village however positively will go and take a look,” she stated.
“I’ve seen quite a lot of Aussies submit about I suppose their rooms and issues like that, simply the health club and issues like that.
“So I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing these sort of issues. I truly went to play the course, so the course is in actually nice form, and I feel it’ll be a very nice match venue for the Olympics.
“I heard that quite a lot of tickets have been bought, so actually wanting ahead to how the match shapes up.”
