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Do we like Minjee Lee?

Our score: 7 out of 10. No harmful words or acts found and a small, real act of giving back, but the record on causes is thin.

Minjee Lee is a West Australian golfer who grew up to become one of the best Australians the sport has produced. She has played 11 years on the LPGA Tour and her winnings are approaching US$20 million. She is Australia's highest-paid sportswoman, and her younger brother Min Woo is the country's top-ranked men's golfer.

Her peak is recent. In June 2025 she won the KPMG Women's PGA Championship by three strokes, her third major. That makes her only the third Australian to win three different majors, after Karrie Webb and Jan Stephenson. It came after 19 months without a win, and she called it “my most deserved”.

Then 2026 went pear-shaped. Since April she hasn't finished better than a tie for 28th across 14 events, and she is on track to miss the LPGA's season-ending Tour Championship for the first time in more than ten years. She sat out the Malaysia event to reset, and Min Woo told AAP she is “too good to not bounce back”.

On the harm test, the cupboard is bare in a good way. We searched her name against LGBTQ+ issues, women, climate, vaccines and politics, and found no statements, campaigns, donations or controversies. The record is quiet rather than glowing, and that's all we can say. Treat it as a pass on what we found, not a deep dive into her values.

On the good-person side there are no lawsuits, no allegations and no stories about how she treats staff or fans in the sources we read. The one concrete kind act is that in 2021 she became the first graduate to personally help fund Golf Australia's performance pathway through its Give Back program. That's modest, but it's a real contribution to the next lot of players.

So: would we support her? Yes. She's a champion with no harm on her record, and a rough patch doesn't change that. We'd just like to hear her say more about the things we care about.