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[PGA TOUR]

DANNY LEE WINS

AT SECOND LIV GOLF APPEARANCE

LIV 두번째 출전만에 우승한 데니 리

anny Lee, in just his second appearance in a LIV Golf this year, I was just hitting it well, and I just had to get my
Devent, has holed a 25 foot putt from off the green at the putter working somehow. That’s why I switched to the long
third extra playoff hole in Tuscon to defeat Brendan Steele, putter. I’m just happy to see I’m making great progress.
Louis Oosthuizen and Carlos Ortiz to win his first event Lee made special mention of the talks he had with Kevin Na
anywhere in nearly eight years. about the switch he as making to LIV Golf
32 year old Lee was born in Korea but was schooled in “I mean, it was a life-changing decision. To be honest, I
Rotorua in New Zealand and spent his formative years there wasn’t getting what everybody’s like thing, like everybody is
before winning the 2008 US Amateur Championship, then getting like $100 million, $50 million, $30 million. I wasn’t
the 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic and moving to the US and in that situation. Kevin just called me, hey, do you want to
eventually joining the PGA Tour in 2012 via the Korn Ferry come over and play for my team.
Tour where he had won in 2011. “I thought about it, and I looked at the schedule. There’s
“I mean, it feels pretty amazing, said Lee soon after his three events I really like. Tucson wasn’t in my head, but
victory. “Last win I had was 2015 at Greenbrier. That was Mayakoba, I always played well there, Greenbrier, I won
also a four-man playoff. Maybe it was a coincidence, I don’t there, and then Singapore, Sentosa, which we’re going to
know. But it feels pretty amazing right now. come back to, I have played well there before.
“I was falling apart a little bit the last couple years because “Then Kevin just told me that I know you’re working hard,
of my injury, and outside of my golf situation, but starting you’re so — he could see that my game is so close to being

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