GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN

July 13, 2023

Min Woo Lee

The Renaissance Club

Quick Quotes

Q. After the start you had, this must be quite satisfying compared with an under-par round?

MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, the main goal this week was just to keep my head in the game and to not get pissed off at small things, which I did two weeks ago. So it was kind of a good steppingstone for today, and yeah, after I started with a double, with a really good drive and ended up in the bunker and kept it in there.

So yeah, it was a good hard earned 2-under which was really nice. Without them, I'm somewhere up near the lead so hopefully I can come without them.

Q. Coming to a links golf again, is it all about patience, apart from trying to keep the kind of shots that work well here?

MIN WOO LEE: It's a lot about where you miss it and where you -- it's tough, especially with this wind. It's tough to hit really good shots and make birdies on long holes. If you can do the right things, and also just hole nice 20-footers or plot your way along, I think that's the way to go. Lots of patience needed.

Q. How much of a confidence boost is it for you to come back to a place where you've had so much success?

MIN WOO LEE: A lot, a lot but you also don't want to get too ahead of yourself because it's not the same as two years ago. It's different course design and stuff like that, and I learned also from two weeks ago that I was one of the favourites on that course, and I got a bit too far ahead and high expectations, so this week I just told myself to stay in the game and proud of the way I played today, yeah.

Q. Is that easy to do, get ahead of yourself?

MIN WOO LEE: Oh, easy, you think it's going to happen. We always live with the highs, and you think it can happen just as easy, but it doesn't happen as easy. So obviously not many people win back-to-back times. Yeah, it's tough to keep going.

Q. Taking away the first hole, what was pleasing about today's round game-wise?

MIN WOO LEE: I think it was all patience, really. I didn't do anything overly that great. I putted well. I chipped it well. But you know, it was just pretty scrappy, but it was a grind, too. Nothing went overly amazing, but I mean, I hit some shots close and made some birdies and made up-and-down when I needed to.