Min Woo Lee leads the Australians into the PGA Championship
By Henry Wallis ·
Min Woo Lee will play his fifth PGA Championship as the highest-ranked Australian in the field, at OWGR No. 20. The Perth-based 27-year-old’s 2026 has been built around a more conservative wedge game — his 100-150 yard proximity number is down 6 inches from 2024, the kind of margin that turns near-misses into trophies.
Lee’s two PGA Tour wins now anchor a season-by-season earnings trend that has roughly tripled each year since his Tour debut. The career-earnings chart in his profile shows the inflection: a flat $1.5 to $2.4 million from 2021 to 2023, then $6.6M in 2024 and $3.6M already in 2026 through 12 starts.
Adam Scott (OWGR #16) and Jason Day (#28) round out the Australian contingent inside the world’s top 30. Scott missed the cut at Aronimink in 2019 and has spoken openly about a longer pre-major preparation cycle in 2026.