Min Woo Lee and Ryan Fox prominent in Houston
Min Woo Lee – file photo Australian Golf Media
Perth’s Min Woo Lee and New Zealander Ryan Fox are well placed through 54 holes of the Texas Children’s Houston Open at the Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas.
Lee produced a third round of 63 to establish a four-shot lead over Argentinian Alejandro Tosti but New Zealand’s Fox is just one shot further back in a share of 3rd place with none other than Scottie Scheffler and his fellow American, Ryan Gerard.
Lee, who is chasing a first PGA Tour title, was asked about his weekend demise at the Players Championship after leading through the opening 36 holes.
“Yeah, today I did an amazing job, didn’t do that (at the TPC Sawgrass). It was a very good learning curve the last PLAYERS just a few weeks ago being in the lead and just, I don’t know, felt like I wasn’t myself.
“Yeah, I want to be in this situation more and more, so I had to really look into it myself and yeah, just keeping my head down really and try and hit one shot at a time. It’s a long day so you can’t get ahead of yourself, and you’ve just got to hit one shot at a time and keep trusting your game.
“Yeah, again, it’s just trending so well. My coach and I, Richie, have done really good work and it’s starting to show. It’s just a lot of trust. We’ve been working on this for the last two, three years, but just the last couple weeks since PLAYERS it kind of clicked in.”
Fox produced a round of 65 after a slow start and was proud of how he handled himself for the remainder of his round, including his homeward nine of 30.
“I was a bit angry after starting bogey-bogey and I hit a bad drive on 3 as well. Then kind of gave myself a little talking to and said there’s plenty of birdie chances out here, let’s just hit a good wedge shot in here and see what happens, and hit it in there close, made birdie and kind of calmed myself down.
“Yeah, just turned in even par and got hot on the back nine, and I was proud of myself for staying patient and giving myself lots of chances on that back nine.”
The US$9 million tournament is Fox’s 6th of the season on the PGA Tour and with a best of 20th (at the Players Championship) at his previous five starts he needs to get things moving in a forward direction to improve his current 139th position in the FedEx Cup standings. Tomorrow he has that chance.
