The first two-time winner of the Rolex Annika Major Award on the back of her win at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, tie for third at the Amundi Evian Championship and top-15 finishes at the Chevron Championship and AIG Women’s Open, Lee is enjoying one of the best seasons of her career.

The 29-year-old fell just short of a 12th LPGA Tour win at the CPKC Women’s Open and is one of nine Aussies teeing it up at this week’s Kroger Queen City Championship in Ohio, a tournament she won two years ago.

Currently fourth in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking, Lee is second in the Race to CME Globe standings and is looking at supplant Jeeno Thitikul in the No.1 spot by season’s end.

“Obviously I would love to win CME. That’s a big one,” Lee said in her pre-tournament press conference.

“Obviously I would love to be able to win in Asia. Asia, I always love playing those events. A lot of my family come to watch. Korea is a big one for me, too, the BMW Championship.

“I feel like I have a good stretch of events coming up, and obviously a big goal but CME would be the ultimate one.”

Arguably the game’s premier ball-striker, Lee’s turnaround from a disappointing 2024 campaign has been pinned largely on her switch to a broomstick putter at the start of the year.

It has resulted in an extraordinary improvement of 157th in Strokes Gained: Putting in 2024 to second in season 2025, a transformation that is feeding into other areas of her game.

“My long game and my driving, that has always been pretty solid over the last few years,” said Lee.

“It was more just getting the putter and working and getting a bit more confidence in that area.

“Short game, I’m constantly working on something and trying to get better in that area, too.

“I’m able to rely a little more on my long game and irons so I think I was able to put a bit more importance and more of my time into my short game and putting.

“That’s kind of let me be a bit more free in the things that I am able to work on.”

There are some big-name additions amongst the Aussie men contesting the storied BMW Championship at Wentworth Club in London this week.

Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee are in action for the first time in a month, Scott seeking to add to his lone top-10 finish in nine previous starts.

Karl Vilips and Harrison Endycott will fly the Aussie flag as the PGA TOUR Fall Series kicks off in California and there are six Australians in the field for the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open on the Ladies European Tour.

Photo: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

Round 1 tee times AEST

DP World Tour
BMW PGA Championship
Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, England
4pm                 David Micheluzzi
5:15pm            Min Woo Lee
5:25pm            Adam Scott
6:15pm            Elvis Smylie
7:20pm*          Kazuma Kobori (NZ)
9:35pm            Ryan Fox (NZ)
10:40pm*         Daniel Hillier (NZ)
11:30pm*         Jason Scrivener

Recent champion: Billy Horschel
Past Aussie winners: Rodger Davis (1986), Mike Harwood (1990)
Prizemoney: $US9m
TV times: Live 6pm-3am Thursday, Friday, Saturday; Live 6pm-2:30am Sunday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

PGA TOUR
Procore Championship
Silverado Resort (North Cse), Napa, California
6:22am            Karl Vilips
6:55am            Harrison Endycott

Recent champion: Patton Kizzire
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US6m
TV times: Live 3am-11am Friday, Saturday; Live 8am-11am Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

LPGA Tour
Kroger Queen City Championship
TPC River’s Bend, Hamilton Township, Ohio
9:42pm*          Hira Naveed
10:15pm*         Hannah Green
10:59pm          Gabriela Ruffels
2:20am*           Karis Davidson
2:42am*           Fiona Xu (NZ)
3:15am            Cassie Porter
3:26am            Stephanie Kyriacou
3:26am*           Lydia Ko (NZ), Minjee Lee
3:37am*           Grace Kim
4:21am            Robyn Choi

Recent champion: Lydia Ko
Past Aussie winners: Minjee Lee (2023)
Prizemoney: $US2m
TV times: Live 6am-9am Friday; Live 3am-6am Saturday on Fox Sports 505; Live 3am-6am Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

PGA TOUR Champions
Sanford International
Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Australasians in the field: Steven Alker (NZ), Steve Allan, Stuart Appleby, David Bransdon, Greg Chalmers, Mathew Goggin, Richard Green, Mark Hensby, Brendan Jones, Rod Pampling, John Senden, Michael Wright.

Recent champion: Steve Stricker
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US2.2m
TV times: 11am-12:30pm Saturday, Sunday and Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

Ladies European Tour
VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open
Golfpark Holzhausern, Switzerland
4:15pm*          Kelsey Bennett, Momoka Kobori (NZ)
4:48pm*          Kirsten Rudgeley
5:21pm            Sarah Kemp
5:21pm*          Wenyung Keh (NZ)
5:43pm            Amy Walsh
8:44pm            Amelia Garvey (NZ)
9:39pm            Maddison Hinson-Tolchard
10:12pm          Whitney Hillier

Recent champion: Alice Hewson
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: €300,000
TV times: Live 11:30pm-2:30am Thursday, Friday; Live 10pm-1am Saturday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo Sports.

Asian Tour
The 41st Shinhan Donghae Open
Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, Korea
8:44am            Junseok Lee
12:50pm          Wade Ormsby
12:50pm*         Aaron Wilkin
1:12pm*          Maverick Antcliff
1:45pm            Scott Hend
2:18pm            Travis Smyth
2:29pm*          Nick Voke (NZ)

Recent champion: Kensei Hirata
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: KRW1.5b
TV times: Live 2pm-6pm Thursday, Friday; Live 1pm-5pm Saturday on Fox Sports 503; Live 1pm-5pm Sunday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo Sports.

Sunshine Tour
Vodacom Origins of Golf – Gowrie Farm Lodge & Golf Course
Gowrie Farm Lodge & Golf Course, Nottingham Road, South Africa
Australians in the field: Austin Bautista

Recent champion: Jonathan Broomhead
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: R2m

Korn Ferry Tour
Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation
Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tennessee
9:40pm*          Rhein Gibson
11:05pm*         Harry Hillier (NZ)

Recent champion: Paul Peterson
Past Aussie winners: Cam Davis (2018)
Prizemoney: $US1.5m
TV times: Live 6am-8am Friday on Fox Sports 506; Live 6am-8am Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

Epson Tour
Guardian Championship
RTJ Golf Trail at Capitol Hill (Senator Cse), Prattville, Alabama
Australians in the field: Jennifer Elliott, Soo Jin Lee, Su Oh

Recent champion: Fatima Fernandez Cano
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US250,000

LET Access Series
Hauts de France Pas de Calais Golf Open
Golf Saint Omer, France
Australians in the field: Justice Bosio, Belinda Ji, Abbie Teasdale, Kristalle Blum

Recent champion: Kelsey Bennett
Past Aussie winners: Kelsey Bennett (2024)
Prizemoney: €40,000

PGA TOUR Americas
ATB Classic
Northern Bear Golf Club, Strathcona County, Alberta
1:20am            Grant Booth
5:30am            Tony Chen

Recent champion: Frederik Kjettrup
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US225,000

HotelPlanner Tour
Open de Portugal at Royal Óbidos
Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort, Vau Óbidos, Portugal
6:18pm            Danny List
9:40pm            Hayden Hopewell
10:35pm          Sam Jones (NZ)

Recent champion: Matt Oshrine
Past Aussie winners: Dimi Papadatos (2018)
Prizemoney: €300,000