Min Woo Lee

There was a little bit of doubt because I know Scotty made birdie on the 16th green and I can see that. The only place I couldn't go is the water and, yeah, decided to go over there, make it a bit interesting. But a bit of both, a bit of both. You are thinking...

hey, you know, this, I mean, what was it, the fourth shot that I hit after, you know, the tee shot was not easy, the second tee shot, because you don't want to hit it too far left, because that's, you know, that's a tendency. You hit one right, you're going to hit one left. So I managed to get it somewhere down there, and then I hit it to...

You know, had like a 9-iron in and it wasn't like the easiest because there was a little bit of mud on the ball and, you know, mud on the ball makes it go everywhere. So I had like a 30-footer and made my bogey, which was, I think, reasonable for that. And then, you know, it was kind of game on. Made two really nice pars and got it done.

But it was, you know, I was hoping Scotty didn't make 30 on either 17 or 18 because that would have made it. A lot tougher.

Yeah. Someone needs to clear that up. was it 30 minutes just waiting on the tee as well? Cause we waited for a good five, 10 minutes there. That's a good question. I don't know. So, so I mean, it didn't feel like 30 minutes, but I think part of it was waiting on the tee because, okay. That was obviously a moment that on social media, everyone's like, yeah, 30 minutes, it shouldn't be like that.

You should start stroking guys. But I mean, a couple of holes later, we like caught up to them and every hole was slow from then. So yes, that hole was slow. But I mean, we had to wait every hole on the back nine. So it's not like...

it made that big of a difference yes it was slow for that hole and i'm sorry about that but um i mean i had a tough decision i mean as an aggressive kid like i wanted to you know get on my knees and hit that shot but you know my veteran caddy out here you know was telling me hey you know and it happened that exact thing what he said happened and it could have gone either way you know in my situation i was like okay the lie is okay if i take a drop it's a bit of a bear lie

And I didn't hit my two-line good out of there. But, you know, I thought if I could whack it out, you know, 20 yards and still have a shot onto the green, I can easily make a par that way. But there was obviously risk involved. So hopefully you like me after this. But it was like – yeah, it looked bad, obviously. No one wants to take 30 minutes. But, yeah, it took a while.

I mean, there was obviously the whole situation with the toasty stuff. But – I mean, yeah.

Yeah, no, no, no. That's the funny thing. I had no clue what he was talking about with the rules official on eight. So I didn't know anything about that. I didn't know if it took 30 minutes. I didn't know if he talked to the rules official because after I hit my shot, I walked to the fairway and he was talking to a rules official.

And I heard Bones say, like, why is he talking to a rules official after all this time while he was waiting for me? why couldn't he do it while I was hitting the shot so there was a bit of confusion there he was obviously talking about how slow I was but In my defence, there's 100 people right next to me and I can't look over to the other side of the fairway.

To get a number, especially on 18 as well, to get a number from the sprinkler, if there was no crowd, it's easy. My caddie can step it out. But when there's people around you, it's hard to get a yardage. And I think that's a reason why range finders may come back in. And that would have made it easier. I would have hit the shot within my time limit. Yeah, there was no beef. There was no beef.

I mean, he stayed... I mean, props to him. He stayed towards the end after media, after my trophy presentation. So he stayed like an hour and a half to say, you know, this is what happened on social media. And I took a glimpse of it on social media. I opened my Instagram. I saw something about it and I was like, I don't care. I won the tournament, like whatever. And...

It looked bad on Toasty because he was obviously, you know, walking back there. But he said he went to the bathroom, which fair enough. You know, you're going to be 100, 150 yards behind anyway. So, I mean, for the guys that want drama, like, I'm sorry. I don't think it's as beefy as... it looked like. Uh, but no, I mean, I'm fine. We're fine. Uh, I think we're fine.

Um, but yeah, I did like that.

Yeah, that was funny. I mean, yeah, yeah. I just thought it was a funny moment. Um, you're never going to do it ever again.

any other time unless you have that and uh you know i'm a bit of bit of the man of the people you know and i try to try to make some fun out of it and there was no beef about that with toasty or anything i just i just told my daddy hey would it be funny if i did this and he said yeah It was just one of those things that I'm a bit of a jokester, so I just thought of that in that moment.

Yeah, it was funny.

Well, I wouldn't have done it if it was like three feet. No, that's a bit of a different story because it was such a –

tap in it was fine but uh yeah it could have been bad if uh i think that i think this i think social media was like oh that's a bit tough and bad because like you know putting's hard and short putts are tough but that was that was short yeah no i i liked it a lot so um you have three m's that you've credited with your success would you like to explain what the three m's are

No, actually, the last time I trimmed it up was, you know, Vic Blenz. He cut my hair in Arizona for the waste management. And then I obviously got some highlights to have a bit of fun with it. And, yeah, I might have to keep that. So there was a moment in between where I had the mullet and the highlights. So I might go get the mullet again. And then the moustache I've had it for. a year or two.

And yeah, it's just one of those things where it just stays and, you know, it's just your look. What was the other M? The mock turtleneck. The mock turtleneck. Okay. That might be in the making. So look out for it. And I'm looking forward to whatever comes out, you know, big week next week. So it might just make an appearance then. Oh, yeah.

I think so. Last week was a very big turning moment for me. After the players a couple of times, I faltered a little bit. I just locked in last week. I don't know why. I think I was a bit embarrassed about how I went about on Saturday at the players. And I think that's just all a learning curve. I mean, you want to play as good as the first two rounds.

But when you're sleeping on a lead and when you're doing that, it's just part of it. And it kind of – you have to take a moment to realize what happened, how was I – acting. That was my body language. And I think that was, that was a big part. The second time, obviously at the players a couple of weeks ago, that was, that was a huge moment for me.

So, and obviously a couple of weeks later, I bounced back and took the dub. So, uh, I think pretty proud of the way I handled myself. And that's going to be massive for times coming. Augusta would be a pretty cool one. I played pretty good there. So, yeah, we'll see.

Yeah, it's a bit of both. You need to hit it good, obviously. You need to be on your game. Everyone can just say, hey, yeah, Augusta is this, this, this, but you still got to hit it really good. I came, I don't know, 14th in my first year and I got really comfortable with it. I don't know. I just, I love the way it shaped for me. Not too many like very straight holes. You need to do

Something off the tee, which I love. That's why I play pretty good at the players too. Sawgrass just suits my eye. I don't mind hitting a draw now and then. When everything's kind of firing, it's fun. I just love the week. Obviously, there's something about it, but you just have this feeling that... Uh, I don't know. You get there and you're like, shit, this is it. This is, this is the big dance.

So yeah. Yeah.

yeah uh the last few years yes i mean we probably recorded that a couple years ago uh right now i can say that i work hard and i don't feel like i leave too much out there but yeah yeah i guess yeah you change your routine a little bit you know when you feel tired when you feel this you know you don't want to do it but you kind of push yourself to do it uh and obviously that uh

You know, it's helping. And, yeah, I was always a talented kid. You know, I always, you know, kind of took the shortcuts. But you can't take shortcuts. If you want to beat Scotty, you've got to work hard. You've got to play good and practice hard to beat all these top players. So you're going to fall behind if you don't.

Yeah, no, no. No, it's actually – at the golf course that my coach used to coach at, there was kangaroos everywhere on the golf course. So I think I related a little bit to kind of like deers. Like some courses have deers on there and this course had it and there's a few courses that have. Yeah.

You don't really see them too much in the wild, like, you know, in the city and stuff when you drive around. But in, like, golf courses and some bush areas, you do see kangaroos. And no fights, nothing. You know, you go up to them and they usually run away. But some of them actually get up on their tail and try to box you. But normally they just run away.

So not really a dumb question, but, yeah, it's chill. Okay.

Uh, I have... Okay, spiders. Like, everyone thinks spiders in Australia are like...

massive and i don't think i've seen one that's you know bigger than bigger than my fist it's that's a big spider that's a big spider i mean okay so i've only seen like a couple of them but you just leave them and if you're in a clean place like you're fine but if you're maybe in the desert in the bush and you know you don't take care of your house you're probably going to get some spiders but

You don't, I mean, you don't kill too many spiders or snakes. I've seen two snakes in my life and you know, they just run away. So, uh, we got snakes on someone being in Australia. It's not that it's not as bad as what everyone thinks.

Exactly. Exactly. Toasty. I mean, okay. Okay. An argument, dumb question, whatever. What about guns, bro? Yeah. What about it? I think spiders and snakes are a bit better than guns, to be honest. Good point.

So that's my question to you guys.

Okay, yeah. That was wild, you know? I had my phone on Do Not Disturb because there was about 100 messages every second when I was doing media. So I put on Do Not Disturb and I checked my phone log and there's a couple of friends and then there's Justin Bieber. And I'm like, shit, I just kind of ghosted him. He probably thinks I ghosted him. So then I messaged him, I said media, blah, blah, blah.

And I was on the flight to Vegas and... like just got on the plane and he FaceTimed me and I was like, holy shit, this is pretty epic moment.

yeah it was a very cool moment it was very cool it's uh you know my girlfriend's crazy my usually my friends of girls are yeah going crazy about that and i mean i go crazy i talk to him a little bit and he's a he's a legend so and he loves golf so it's it's very cool yeah that's awesome so i i saw a clip of you when you were trying it you were running some nicknames by some people trying to figure out a good nickname have we settled on woozy

Woozy is probably the – I mean, Woozy came from my Call of Duty, like, gamer tag. So that's that kind of – and I put it on my yardage book on the back of my pants, and that kind of grew a little bit. And then, obviously, got Chef and the Chipinski stuff. So, yeah, quite a few nicknames.

That's pretty cool. That's good.

Yeah, that's good. That's good. Kangaroo. That's good.

That's more of a Britney Spears lyric. A min. What's the a min for?

Nah, nah. Yeah, you're Bieber guy.

Okay, that's pretty cool. The woman centipede. I like that.

Didn't they get rid of it? It used to be a playoff event.

Yeah, it used to be that.

Yeah.

I mean... Right now, I mean, sky's the limit. I feel good and I like the course. I've got the record for the front nine. I just need the record for the back nine and hopefully we can put it all together. I feel very good. That's all I can say. Yeah.

Yeah, that's great.

That feels good. That feels good. I mean, yeah, to say that I'm a better golfer than Jack Nicklaus, yeah, it's pretty cool.

I mean, you know what would be crazy would be inflated numbers what he earned. That would be a joke. Yeah.

I think we have enough. This is every course. I think we have enough time to practice on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to hit the shots. But yes, usually we have stats guys and guys that tell us hey, the course suits this. A lot of people kind of hurt their career because Augusta is kind of a draw course. I mean, yes, you can hit phases, fade winners, but

People that hit fades no matter what, they change their swing a little bit to hit draws. There's been a lot of stories about them trying to fit their swings to go to Augusta. You do a little bit. I think last week was a pretty good warm-up. I think Rory and a lot of other people say that. It's a good warm-up for it.

I just wanted to fit it in the schedule because I would have taken too much time off. It was a last-minute thing really last week and it was a very good decision. Yeah. A bit of both. I think you have enough time. I'll go to Augusta on maybe Sunday and go out there and hit some shots.

But we know, I mean, you watch enough videos on YouTube and coverage to know what you have to do on the first, second, third. So, yes.

Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. I mean... Maybe not like when you first get nervous like out there, you're like, shit, where is this ball going to go? But now it's probably like more of excitement nervous because you know you've done it now and then and you've done it a lot now in front of a big crowd so you kind of know to go back to things, go back to swing thoughts and stuff like that. So...

Yeah, you do get nervous, yeah. Augusta, for me, is kind of, you know, the first hole is a bit awkward. Like, if you, three would might not get far enough, but drive is too far. So, like, it's kind of an in-between thing, and you've got to stripe it, or else you might be in trouble.

I have a dumb question.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So not many people probably know this. I mean, if you know, you know, but Augusta National, if you go there like weeks before Masters or months before, the pro shop is filled with Augusta National Golf Club stuff instead of Masters stuff. So, Masters week, it's only Masters.

So, it's cool to have some hats and shirts and stuff that have just Augusta National Golf Club because if you know, you know. Yeah. You go there prior to the Masters. You can't get that during Masters week. So, yes, heck yes. Yes. If you look at my house, there's a lot of Masters stuff. There's cups. The first couple of years, I didn't have a house, so I couldn't get all the...

all the cool stuff, but now that I have a house, I just bought a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff to put in the house, which is cool, which is what you want.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, most of the time I watch every shot, yeah.

No, it's the greatest app, yeah. I mean, every golf app should be like that. But, yeah, that's another thing for us, like, athletes, golfers, that we want to see how we swing the golf club. Like, we don't know, you know. Like my swing on 16 at last week, it wasn't really anything like the other ones. What do you do different, you know?

So I obviously swung up a little bit too hard, way too hard, and that's something that we want feedback from. So every shot that we can see, which is awesome at the Masters, you get to kind of – either get good feedback or bad feedback. So it's a great app.

On what? The one on my knees. Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. I think, you know, if you're playing with your buddies and like you're playing match play or something, yeah, you're going to, you're going to hit it. You're not going to take a drop, but in this situation, it, it's a big deal.

You know, like if I miss hit it or I hit it back in, if I hit it right into the trees and shank it, like you're making double or triple and that's what you don't need. And to make it, even to make a bogey there on such an easy hole, like that's, That could have been the tournament right there.

There was a lot of times when I was out there, I'm like, this swing is for the tournament, so don't F it up, you know?

Yeah, for sure. I mean, yes, I probably would have told them to move if I end up hitting that shot. But yeah, you know, the crowd's keen and they want to be as close as possible and have a front row seat. So yeah, I mean, they probably... They probably don't expect it, but, I mean, yeah, it could have happened. Something bad could have happened.

My favorite hole, I mean... 16 is very special. That's a good hole. 16 is cool. Yeah. Man, every hole is sick. I think 9 is underrated because of the green. 11 is tough. 11 is one of the toughest holes ever for anyone. Yeah, I think I'll say that. 16 is special. It's a good hole.

The what? The next one.

Exactly. Every hole is important. Every hole is important.

Exactly.

Exactly.

All right. Well, I think I can't speak about that. But, yeah, I mean, let's do it.

A lot of both. I think it's going to look somewhat – Where you want it. So that's the feel part. You obviously got to exaggerate it. If you're hitting a draw and you want to hit a cut, you got to really slice it to all. Let's do it the opposite way. If you want to draw it and you're a slicer, you got to really drop it inside and draw it. So what you feel, you got to record your swing.

You got to record it, see, and your swing might not be there. So you got to really, really feel it. And then, yes, there's data. There's going to be times where If you have a track man behind you and you're trying to hit that shot and you're still over the top and hitting a minus club pass, which means a cut, there's a big feel and data. I mean, they both kind of go together.

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