A week out from the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales, Lee is making her 10th start in the Women’s Scottish Open, absorbing almost all of Scottish culture with the guidance of new caddie and Edinburgh native, Mikey Patterson.

The pair already have a major championship together courtesy of Lee’s third major championship win at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last month, Patterson’s efforts to tempt Lee into eating haggis and black pudding less of a success.

On the back of her third-place finish at the Amundi Evian Championship Lee “ate my way through London” before turning her attention to sweet Scottish strawberries and the links courses for which she has become so fond.

The world No.5 has finished top 20 in each of her past three starts at Dundonald Links and is ready to sink her teeth into more links-style creativity.

“I like when we do get the opportunities to play links golf, just the creativity,” said the 29-year-old.

“I really enjoy this type of golf I guess. I just like the cool weather.

“Sometimes we’re hit with a ton of wind, rain, the conditions are much harder usually, like the surface.

“Just being able to like picture it in your mind and executing it gives me a lot of joy when I can do it.”

The 2025 championship marks the seventh time that Dundonald Links has hosted the Women’s Scottish Open and the fourth year in succession.

It breeds a familiarity that Lee hopes to use to her advantage.

“We’ve been here quite a few times now, so I know the course really well,” said Lee, who has the added luxury of staying on site this week.

“I know where to miss it and where it’s best to play from. When the wind does get up, I just kind of know my way around the course now.

“I think that really helps, playing it more than a couple times now.”

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Cassie Porter and Kelsey Bennett will make their tournament debuts, Porter out in the first group of the day alongside fellow Australian Kirsten Rudgeley.

As is the case at Dundonald Links, there are 10 Australians in the field for the final senior major of 2025, the ISPS HANDA Senior Open at Sunningdale Golf Club in London.

Steve Allan comes in on the back of his second PGA TOUR Champions win of the year at the DICK’s Open while Richard Green will be hoping to go one better than his runner-up finish to KJ Choi 12 months ago at Carnoustie.

Photo: Monica Marchesani/LET

Round 1 tee times

PGA TOUR Champions
ISPS HANDA Senior Open
Sunningdale GC, Sunningdale, Berkshire, United Kingdom
4:46pm            David Bransdon
4:57pm            Mark Hensby
5:13pm            Michael Long (NZ)
5:24pm            Rod Pampling
5:46pm             Scott Hend
6:19pm            Steven Alker (NZ)
6:46pm            Michael Campbell (NZ)
6:57pm            Steve Allan, Greg Chalmers
7:52pm            Michael Wright
9:14pm            Cameron Percy
9:52pm            Mark Brown (NZ)
11:09pm          Stuart Appleby
11:25pm          Richard Green

Recent champion: KJ Choi
Past Aussie winners: Ian Stanley (2001)
Prize money: $US2.85m
TV times: Live 10:30pm-4am Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo.

LPGA Tour/Ladies European Tour
ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open
Dundonald Links, Gailes, Ayrshire, Scotland
4:30pm            Cassie Porter, Kirsten Rudgeley
5:14pm            Minjee Lee
5:25pm*          Hira Naveed
6:09pm*          Gabriela Ruffels
9:31pm*          Karis Davidson, Momoka Kobori (NZ)
9:53pm            Robyn Choi
9:53pm*          Stephanie Kyriacou, Amelia Garvey (NZ)
10:15pm          Kelsey Bennett
10:26pm*         Grace Kim

Recent champion: Lauren Coughlin
Past Aussie winners: Rebecca Artis (2015)
Prize money: $US2m
TV times: Live 6:30pm-10:30pm Thursday, Friday on Fox Sports 505; Live 11pm-2am Saturday; Live 9pm-1am Sunday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

PGA TOUR
3M Open
TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota
11:13pm          Aaron Baddeley
11:46pm          Harrison Endycott
3:43am            Adam Scott
3:54am*           Cam Davis
4:16am*           Karl Vilips

Recent champion: Jhonattan Vegas
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US8.4m
TV times: Live 10pm-9am Thursday; Live 10:30pm-9am Friday; Live 2am-8am Sunday; Live 1am-8am Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

LIV Golf
LIV Golf UK
JCB Golf and Country Club, Rochester, England
Australasians in the field: Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Ben Campbell (NZ), Danny Lee (NZ)

Recent champion: Jon Rahm
Past Aussie winners: Cameron Smith (2023)
Prize money: $US20m
TV times: Live from 9.30pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday on 7 Plus

Korn Ferry Tour
NV5 Invitational
The Glen Club, Glenview, Illinois
10:14pm*         Rhein Gibson
11:14pm*         Harry Hillier (NZ)

Recent champion: Thomas Rosenmueller
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US1m

PGA TOUR Americas
Commissionaires Ottawa Open
Eagle Creek Golf Club, Ottawa, Ontario
10:12pm*         Tony Chen
2:46am            Grant Booth

Recent champion: Barend Botha
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US225,000