Min Woo Lee is trying to run away and hide.
The Australian carded a 5-under 66 for the second straight day, extending his lead to three shots at the 2023 Fortinet Australian PGA Championship. A win would be his third on the DP World Tour and one of the biggest in his young career.
“I again played pretty solid,” Lee said. “A couple of mistakes but that happens. But overall, pretty happy with the way I went today.”
For the third time in as many days, Lee birdied his opening hole at Royal Queensland and added another at the third. A pair of birdies and bogeys rounded out his front nine to turn in 2 under.
On the back, the 25-year-old added three more birdies to finish his day at 17 under, three shots in front of Rikuya Hoshino.
“It’s a course where you can shoot low, so you’re going to be aggressive no matter what,” Lee said. “There’s probably a couple of holes where you don’t need to hit driver where I did the last three days. It just all depends. It’s obviously score dependent, but I’m here because I played aggressive and I played the way that the game plan has been. So, hopefully I can just do the same.”
Lee is 45th in the Official World Golf Ranking, but his last victory on the DP World Tour came two years ago at the Scottish Open. Adding a third in his home country would be special.
“At the end of last week the season, technically ended but the year hasn’t ended and I wanted a win on the DP World Tour, so it was in the back of my mind and I wanted to win,” Lee said. “So yeah, it will be amazing. Any win’s awesome. I have the potential to win but I’ve only had three wins, so it’s not like it comes off. Any time you win it’s an amazing feeling.
“I mean yeah, again, tomorrow’s just another day and hopefully I can keep going. I can just control what I can do and if someone goes out there and shoots low, hopefully I’ve finished the day happy with the way I played.”
Curtis Luck is third at 13 under with Adam Scott, who played with Lee on Saturday, fourth at 11 under.