Speaker 1: Minji Lee has won her third major championship with a
Speaker 1: three shot victory, a comfortable victory in the end at
Speaker 1: the PGA Champs in Texas. Here's the audio of Minji's win.
Speaker 2: Minjii battles the Texas.
Speaker 1: Wrong and he and she's a three time leads to
Speaker 1: a chat and Richie Smith, Minji's coach, joins us. Now
Speaker 1: get a Richie congratulations, well done.
Speaker 2: Thanks Simon, nice to speak to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she I heard some audio from this morning. She
Speaker 1: felt felt like she played kept an eye on the
Speaker 1: leader board, but played within herself. What did you see
Speaker 1: as her long term coach?
Speaker 2: I saw someone who's pretty nervous on the front nine,
Speaker 2: if I'm honest, very tentative, and she had had some
Speaker 2: history of blind leeds, and I think that she got
Speaker 2: challenged a little bit on that front line, and then
Speaker 2: I think she got angry with herself actually and just
Speaker 2: decided that she was going to win. I think once
Speaker 2: she decided that she was going to win, no one
Speaker 2: was going to beat her.
Speaker 1: Got the game, hasn't she? And that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: at the top end with her and and with Woozy
Speaker 1: and all of you, all of your crew they've got
Speaker 1: the game. It's just that the day and how they
Speaker 1: how they approach. You need a bit of luck too,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do. And the golf course over there is
Speaker 2: pretty tough, and it was blowing pretty hard for the
Speaker 2: last two days. And I think it was advantageous for
Speaker 2: us because you know, obviously we have a windy city
Speaker 2: that we've we've developed these players in and yeah, it's
Speaker 2: been It was helpful that it was, And I don't
Speaker 2: think there was any lucky breaks. I think she played
Speaker 2: well within herself and she kept it on the fair
Speaker 2: way most of the time and hit great shots and
Speaker 2: hold the puts when needed. So I think she deserved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, we're stoked for it, and for and for
Speaker 1: you and for the whole gang. Is she you talked
Speaker 1: about sometimes blowing your lead. In your view, you've got
Speaker 1: to train for all the scenarios, don't you been the
Speaker 1: hunted one or chasing? It's it's different every day and
Speaker 1: on each course, isn't it, Richie?
Speaker 2: It is? But I mean we'd very much decided that
Speaker 2: we were going to play the way that we wanted
Speaker 2: to play, and we weren't going to get sucked in
Speaker 2: to what the opposition was doing. So we'd set at
Speaker 2: the goal of just trying to be one under for
Speaker 2: each six hole segment, and we were going to play
Speaker 2: match play game against ourselves, and actually we lost the
Speaker 2: match to ourselves, but we ended up winning the tournament,
Speaker 2: So that's that's all that mattered.
Speaker 1: Are you Richie? For those people who haven't heard you
Speaker 1: on this station before, or haven't perhaps heard our chats,
Speaker 1: to just remind us how you do this remotely with
Speaker 1: this great gang of golfers that you have.
Speaker 2: Well, I use the Internet a fair bit. We do
Speaker 2: a lot of video lessons and just a lot of
Speaker 2: video conversations. But I was actually in Dallas till Wednesday,
Speaker 2: so all her prep was done in front of me,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and then I just arrived back in Perth
Speaker 2: on Friday and enjoyed the jet lag and watched the
Speaker 2: golf at night.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 1: Did you have a celebratory this morning? A little Pims
Speaker 1: and lemonade, which he.
Speaker 2: Not as yet. I've got to do. I've got to
Speaker 2: do an interview, a TV interview, and I don't really
Speaker 2: want to do that, so maybe tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, No, we well deserve. I thought of you,
Speaker 1: and I know every now and then we try to
Speaker 1: chat that you're all over the place on and off planes.
Speaker 1: Min wou Lee, how's he traveling after the big one?
Speaker 2: Since his win? I think he's suffered a little bit
Speaker 2: with expectation. I think now that he knows that he
Speaker 2: can win, that he's expecting to do it every week,
Speaker 2: and I think that's going to be his like next
Speaker 2: sort of development stage. We're getting there. He's just it's
Speaker 2: a little bit hard at the moment because he's not
Speaker 2: really performing the way he would like. And Hannah Green,
Speaker 2: you didn't mention her, but I will's going. She's going
Speaker 2: really well. She's you know, still top ten in the world.
Speaker 2: And yeah, probably hasn't played as much, hasn't a lot
Speaker 2: of continuity this year yet, but that's going to come
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty confident that she's going to have a
Speaker 2: good end of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done to you' she was the next round
Speaker 1: of questions. I remember talking to you after Min Wu
Speaker 1: played so well in Australia a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I said, when can I buy a hat? When
Speaker 1: can I buy a bail and the T shirt? He said, no,
Speaker 1: we're trying to keep a lid on him, and that's
Speaker 1: that's still the case with him, isn't he Because he's
Speaker 1: a gung ho player in person, But you still want
Speaker 1: him to to get the trophies before you really launch
Speaker 1: him in terms of merchant and profile and personality.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, he has one and now you can and
Speaker 2: you can buy a hat and a shirt. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: no shortage of merchandise that you can buy that says
Speaker 2: let him cook yah or Chapinski or some other thing
Speaker 2: that he's got going on. I don't know, but yeah, Look,
Speaker 2: first and foremost is a golfer, and first and foremost
Speaker 2: we want him to perform on the world stage. And
Speaker 2: I think he's developing really nicely. Probably it has been
Speaker 2: a tough period because that win, you know, this expectation
Speaker 2: that you do get from winning is really hard to balance.
Speaker 2: And but we're getting there. I think. Yeah, it might
Speaker 2: be a little bit of a up and down ride
Speaker 2: for a couple of couple of months, but I think
Speaker 2: we'll we'll see some real improvement by the end of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done. Well on to you mate too, Very
Speaker 1: proud of you and all you've achieved with Hannah, Minji,
Speaker 1: min Wull, all of your gang, Maddie, it's it's not
Speaker 1: a bad thing to have on your on your CV.
Speaker 1: Is it that Minji gets a third title?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that's I'm not in it for
Speaker 2: the for the recognition. I just want them to win,
Speaker 2: win events, and so at the moment we're doing it,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we continue to do so in the future.
Speaker 1: Understated as always, good on your Richie. Thanks for the chat.
Speaker 2: Thanks Ann,