JM EAGLE LA CHAMPIONSHIP

April 18, 2025

Minjee Lee

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, pleased to be joined by Minjee Lee after her second round here at El Caballero. Really great 7-under round today; lots of birdies. Tell me about the day?

MINJEE LEE: Yeah, really solid. Hit it really solid. Holed quite a number of good length putts.

The greens were a little bit -- there were some greens that were softer, but for the most part they were releasing out. So I felt like I wasn't right next to the holes so I holed a bunch of really nice length putts.

Q. Just one bogey on the card so far in two rounds. What's been the key to keeping the bogeys off here?

MINJEE LEE: I think definitely driving it in the right places. Like if you're kind of -- if the pin is on the right and you're on the right side of the fairway, it's a little bit tougher to hit into the small portions where the pins are.

So I think just being in the right spot off the tee and obviously just hitting good iron shots into the greens. Some of the greens are a little bit bigger, there is bigger landing spots. Also that helps. Just, yeah, taking advantage on the par-5s.

We have a few holes where we hit wedges into the greens, so just trying to take advantage of that, too.

Q. You told me yesterday that you had been working really hard on your game. What specifically had you been targeting?

MINJEE LEE: Obviously my putting because I've changed to the long putter since the beginning of the year. But a bit more on like my long game, my driver, and just the accuracy I guess.

I'm always constantly working on my same patterns to get a little bit better every day. I might not be at 100%, but if I can get it to 85 to 90 I'm pretty much good on the course.

Just really working on a few of my patterns and just trying to get that little bit better every day.

Q. Aside from the putter change, are you pretty comfortable now with all your equipment that you have?

MINJEE LEE: Yes. I'm now switched to the Opus wedges, so I've got all my Callaway clubs in the bag. So, yeah, I'm pretty comfortable with everything, and, yeah, really like the new Elite driver.

Yeah, really enjoying that as well.

Q. You're already a winner in LA. Is there any particular feeling or vibe that you get when you come to compete here? You seem to play well.

MINJEE LEE: I think at Wilshire it really reminded me of the Melbourne Sand Belt kind of vibe, but out here it's different. I'm not really sure.

I like LA and I like the west coast, so it just reminds me a little bit more of home for some reason. Maybe that's why. A little bit of home.

Q. Did you feel like a good week like this was coming?

MINJEE LEE: Yeah, I feel like I've been improving week in, week out. I think I've been getting better every time I've been playing. I think having a little bit longer stretch of events I can get some momentum.

I'm really looking forward to obviously the end of this week and then the three that I'm playing coming up.

Hopefully I can play well and get some momentum leading up to the U.S. Open and all the other majors.

Q. I was going to ask just a last question how you're using this week to sort of prepare for the major...

MINJEE LEE: To be honest, I think you never really like -- I don't ever think like, I'm getting ready to play in the major. Like you come to every week and you want to contend every week, do the very best that you can.

I think it's just nice to be in a good position or have a good result before you head into a major championship so you have a bit of confidence.

I wouldn't say I use X tournament to get ready for a major or anything like that. I find it equally as important to perform whichever event that you're playing.

Obviously the majors you want to peak and I want to do that, too, but, yeah, just good momentum and just good few rounds I think it'll be nice to have under my belt going into Chevron.