Would you say Danny Lee really deserves the US mens amateur golf champion honor?”
Danny Jin-Myung Lee (born 24 July 1990) is an amateur golfer from Rotorua, New Zealand. He became number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking on 20 August 2008. Lee was born in South Korea and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of eight. His name may be represented in Hangul using the 이진명. He became a naturalised New Zealander[2] on 2 September 2008 at Rotorua, where he attended Rotorua Boys’ High School. Lee became the youngest ever winner of the U.S. Amateur in August 2008, aged 18 years, one month. Tiger Woods was the previous youngest ever winner in 1994. In February 2009, Lee won the Johnnie Walker Classic in Perth, Australia, a professional tournament co-sanctioned by the European, Asian, and Australasian tours. He was the youngest ever winner on the European Tour, surpassing Dale Hayes, and only the second amateur winner after Pablo Martin. The win took him to 159th place in the Official World Golf Rankings which ranks professional golfers. Lee plans to turn professional afte
New Zealander Danny Lee unleashed a birdie barrage Sunday and defeated Florida State University player Drew Kittleson for the U.S. Amateur Championship. The 18-year-old Lee won 5 and 4 at the Pinehurst (N.C.) Resort and Country Club. Lee carded 13 birdies in 32 holes of the match, which was scheduled for 36. “It’s like I’m in dreamland,” Lee said after his win. Lee became the youngest winner of the amateur event. Tiger Woods was six months older than Lee when he won the first of three straight amateur championships in 1995.
Danny Lee becomes the youngest U.S. Amateur champion in history of golf as he beat Drew Kittleson in style 5 and 4. He also becomes the very first Korean-born golfer to win the U.S. Amateur. That means Danny Lee is also the very first pure-breed Asian Asian person to win the U.S. Amateur. UPDATE: Oops, Danny Lee ISN’t the very first Asian person. Actually Tiger Woods is the very first Asian. BTW, Tiger isn’t really black at all, he’s more Thai than anything else. With Korean ladies taking over the leaderboard in LPGA, Danny Lee is also another one of those players starting the act of taking the PGA Tour along with the young PGA star, Anthony Kim. Pinehurst, N.C. — Danny Lee became the U.S. Amateur’s youngest champion, supplanting Tiger Woods by holding off Drew Kittleson 5 and 4. Lee, 18 years and one month old, frittered away most of a six-hole lead before regaining control with consecutive birdies midway through his second trip around Pinehurst’s No. 2 course. He capped his 11th cons
