15-Year Old Min Jee Lee to play Against Men in Australia

15-year old Min Jee Lee will join an elite list of female golfers when she tees it up on the PGA Tour of Australia against the men this week, in the John Hughes Geely/Nexus Risk Services WA Open event at Royal Fremantle.

She will join the Michelle Wie, Laura Davies and Annika Sorenstam as some of the only female golfers to play in a professional men's tournament.

Lee, of course made headlines last year when she became the youngest winner ever of the WA State Women's Amateur Championship at the age of 14.

Shattering the previous mark by almost three years.

She beat out Whitney Harvey in the final match to claim her record breaking victory.

A member of the Golf Australia National Squad, Lee also attends school at the Methodist Ladies' College and is currently ranked No. 2 in the Australian Women's Amateur rankings.

Lee will be teeing it up with some impressive names from the Australian golfing world, such as Stephen Leaney, Jarrod Moseley and Kim Felton.

Not to mention Scott Laycock who has already won once this season, looking for his second victory of 2011.

Lee will be very comfortable on-course during the event I would think. Being that Royal Fremantle is her home course.

The daughter of South Korean parents, Lee is Australian born and began playing golf at the age of 10.

Not a bad career for the young lady in just five years of playing the game.

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