The third major victory of Minjee Lee, in the KPMG Women’s PGA, had a hidden meaning

Frisco, Texas – for all four exhaust rounds in 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship THEir Fields ranch eastMinjee Lee had the same strong appearance on her face. Regardless of the bird or fraud in the strong, fast, fire breathing composition, its behavior never changed as She raised in a four -stroke lead Through 54 holes, placing a large third career title inside its syllable.

When Lee went on the first Sunday on Sunday, with a heat index in triple figures, the view was the same: defined. Lee, with her polarized sunglasses that served as a shield, seemed impassable. She smiled, shaken in front of the crowd and stripped her opening intention, signaling what she promised would be a long walk in a big crown.

But the images can be misleading.

“I just want to be clear,” Lee said six hours after that opening activity. “I was definitely nervous starting the day. I wasn’t really sure if it was the heat that was making my heart beat more … But I wasn’t as quiet as everyone thinks.”

In what was an accurate test of great sampling, Lee was stumbled early. She made Bogeys at 3, 5 and 6, while Auston Kim made three birds right in front of her to cut Lee’s lead into two.

There was an opportunity for Lee to shake – to crumble like her during the last round of 2024 women’s opening Lancaster Country Clubwhere she entered Sunday as co-leader, just to bomb with a 78.

But THAT Minjee lee is not THIS Minjee Lee.

“I just tried to be really simple there,” she said. “It was just so tough with the wind, so I just tried to take it one step at a time. Some of the drives I hit were really terrible there, but I was able to get up and down, do bogey, not have a great result to get back. I think I managed really well.”

Understanding that she had bird holes in front and the required test was the same for her chassers, Lee stuck in her plan. Her emotions never moved. After each blow, she would open her own backyard book and record notes. One leg in front of the other. Eyes forward.

That bird par-5 9, but gave the blow back to 10. She stayed with Pars at 11 and 12 before facing a possible hole that changes the tournament in the 13th.

Lee’s Got’s Shot found green, but stopped about 70 meters from the hole. Her first point hit a windy wall and came out short, leaving her eight legs for par. Forward in par-4 16, Kim had a bird’s stroke to reach two under and potentially cut the lead of the Lee in one or the tie should lose Lee’s effort.

Almost simultaneously, Lee rolled in front as Kim’s attempt burned the edge. Lee’s fist pierced Texas’s wet air as the ball found the bottom of the cup to keep its lead in three.

Birds at 14 and 15 followed, extending Lee’s pillow to four and setting a stress -free walk in a trophy that has pushed herself to secure.

“I feel like I really deserve this,” Lee said ending in four under par to win with three; She was one of just three players to finish the week under par.

With her reflection on her story in the PGA PGA Trophy of KPMG, Lee, now 29, she thought about the size of this victory-a victory that raised it over the likes of Nelly Korda, Lillia Vu, Brooke Henderson, Yuka Saso and Jin-Young Ko, all who have two main victories. Great title no. 3 connects Lee with Lydia Ko, who was among the players who Dushin Lee in champagne after falling into her winning.

Lee, who has 11 LPGA wins, is a big away from a career known by the Grand Slam (four out of five) and two away from what KO would call current Slam. Including the hall of fame is also a very real opportunity now.

Lee admitted that such goals once promoted it. She still sees the hall as “her final goal” and wants to win the Grand Slam career. But they are barely visible stars of the north for him. What led her to a pronounced victory in the exhausting heat of the North Texas was not a car to be in the air -made air, but a desire to prove it that it could be more than it was.

This victory It would say more than anyone could see it, and that is what Lee enabled.

“I feel like I had a lot of doubts for years,” she said. “I think the more I have heard media and other people say things about my deployment, I think it took me more and more over time. I think it just means a little more to me. … Of course, US Open is my absolute favorite, but in terms of my deserving, I think that’s it.”

Lee won its two first diplomas – Evian 2021 and 2022 US Women Open – with a traditional putter, though deciding with it Lower left hand. Fighting with Flastick ruined it over the past two years, and Lee’s coach, Ritchie Smith, talked it to use a his chest This year. This switch released it in the greens and placed a prevailing performance in PGA Frisco.

But the victory, the trophy, the clothes soaked by champagne, and the record price control did not have Lee looking at the stars for her future search. Her eyes remain straight forward because this is what got it here and what she believes will bring whatever success come next.

“I really don’t set goals like I will win three degrees, try and have three wins,” Lee said. “I just adhere to my processes, and one of my big goals was to improve the setting statistics, so I think I did it. I just take it one step at a time. I will enjoy this victory, and then sit with my coach and talk to him on the phone, see where we go after that.”

Asked to meditate on the big look of her career and what might be in the future, the 29-year-old smiled and laughed.

“The next thing is Evian,” Lee said for the fourth main season, July 10-13, in France. “This is my next stop on tour.”

With the lifting of doubt and its valuable process, Lee set out to celebrate a victory that will shape its heritage. It was time to leave loose, even if she still appeared every time so ready and visible as she did in the course.

For Minjee Lee, now liberated and safe, what is in front of it is all