In-form Minjee Lee settles for second at LPGA Blue Bay

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In-form Minjee Lee settles for second at LPGA Blue Bay

*********** golf ace Minjee Lee has parlayed her hot early-season form into her best result in 18 months with a stylish runner-up finish at the Blue Bay LPGA event in Hainan.

While never seriously threatening runaway winner Rio Takeda, Lee closed with a five-under-par 67 on China’s southern island to add an outright second place to an equal fourth and joint-11th from four starts in 2025.

Trying to win for the first time since October 2023, the former world No.2 continues to impress since switching to a broomstick putter this season.

The sweet-swinging Lee might well have applied the Sunday pressure on Takeda if not for two putts falling millimetres shy of dropping down the stretch and another on the 16th hole lipping out.

Still, the signs are promising for the one-time world No.2 and dual major champion.

It was a great week too for rookie *********** Cassie Porter, who tied for fourth in just her second LPGA Tour start.

The Sydney-born 22-year-old birdied the last for a final-round 72 to finish at seven under.

Only the champion, plus Lee and Japanese superstar Ayaka Furue – the reigning Evian Championship major winner – finished above Porter on the leaderboard.

But no one came close to denying young Takeda her second LPGA victory, just four months after the 21-year-old claimed her first at the Toto Japan Classic in a six-hole, sudden-death playoff.

The Japanese sensation ****** rolled in her eighth birdie of the day on the final hole to equal the course-record 64 to prevail by six shots over Lee.

The emphatic victory marked the biggest winning margin of the season thus far.

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