Minjee Lee is not the very nervous type. But his start to the game this Sunday during the last round of the LPGA Founders in Clifton, New Jersey must have given him some cold sweats. +1 for the day after 11 holes, no birdie on the horizon and her pursuers who were inexorably approaching… ” I wasn’t that nervous tempered the Australian at the microphone of Golf Channel. Sure, I wasn’t hitting as well as I would have liked, but I was still driving and putting really well. I clung to those positive signs. »
Birdies at 12, 14 and 18 from Upper Montclair Country Club reassured the winner of the 2021 Evian Championship. Especially since at -19 she had a two-point cushion on her closest pursuer, Lexi Thompson. The American is also the only one to have held the lead for a time during this last day.
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Minjee Lee pocketed her seventh LPGA Tour title this week.
Boutier finishes well
For her part, Céline Boutier, the only French survivor of the cut, ends her week on a good note. The Parisienne plays 69 thanks to four birdies against a single error from the 1st. Céline finishes 35th in this tournament.
