{"id":1563461,"date":"2022-07-20T18:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563461"},"modified":"2022-07-20T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:34:49","slug":"golf-lee-in-a-really-good-place-ahead-of-evian-championship-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/golf-lee-in-a-really-good-place-ahead-of-evian-championship-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Lee in a \u2018really good place\u2019 ahead of Evian Championship title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgolf-lee-in-a-really-good-place-ahead-of-evian-championship-title-defence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563461&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     Defending champion Minjee Lee of Australia enters this week\u2019s Amundi Evian Championship in France in top form and without the pressure she carried on her shoulders a year ago before winning the first major of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Lee secured her breakthrough major victory at last year\u2019s Evian Championship where she began the final round seven shots back but fired a closing 64 and then beat overnight leader Jeongeun Lee6 in a sudden-death playoff to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my first major win and there was quite a lot of pressure put on me to win a major after so many years on tour,\u201d she told reporters on Wednesday at Evian Resort Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a great confidence boost for me after that win. I was able to have a good year last year and then bring it into this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World number two Lee has definitely carried that form and confidence into the current season and arrives at the year\u2019s penultimate major as perhaps the hottest player on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing 12th at the Chevron Championship, Lee won the U.S. Women\u2019s Open last month with a four-stroke victory and followed that up with a joint runner-up finish at the Women\u2019s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Lee enters the week at Evian-les-Bains with a combined score to par in the majors of -24, which is 13 shots better than any other player this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m in a really good place with my game. Mentally I\u2019m in a good place as well,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like everything is kind of coming together really well. I really worked hard for all of this, so I\u2019m going to keep working hard and hopefully keeps paying off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee will play the first two rounds alongside world number nine Jennifer Kupcho and number 11 Chun In-gee of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2728631\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6J11R-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6J11R-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Defending champion Minjee Lee of Australia enters this week\u2019s Amundi Evian Championship in France in top form and without the pressure she carried on her shoulders a year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}