Danny Lee

State/Country: NZ
Height: 0
Weight: 0
Birthdate: 24/07/1990 10:38:00 AM
Residence: Rotorua, New Zealand & Las Colinas, Texas
Turned Professional: 1/04/2009
Career Earnings: 0

Danny Lee

Born: Incheon, South Korea

Moved to NZ with his family in 2001. Became a New Zealand citizen in 2008.

Lives: Rotorua, NZ

School: Rotorua Boys High

Mother was a golf pro in Korea

Mentor: Michael Strong, Bay of Plenty Golf Association Development Officer

Likes watching football (soccer)...recently took up surfing (2008)...likes watching movies...favourite performer Chris Brown...has two younger brothers...favourite food: Korean.

Says most treasure possession is his 59 Belt Buckle.

Golfer Most Admired: Tiger Woods, Phil Tataurangi and Michael Campbell.

Favourite Course: Torrypine Golf Club, California

Best Competitive Round: 9 under par (Hastings Golf Club)

Best Non-Competitive Round: 11 under par (Springfield Golf Club)

Danny Lee

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Highlights: 2009: As a non-member of the PGA Tour Lee is allowed to play up to 12 events, no more than seven of them on sponsors or foreign exemptions. If he earns enough money to be ranked in the top 150 based on the 2008 money list (about $700,000) then Lee can take up temporary status on the tour and accept unlimited sponsors' exemptions.

April 2009: Turned Professional immediately after the US Masters event (missed cut at Masters). Missed the cut at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April, his first USPGA Tour event as a pro. Collected his first payday as a professional in his second event and earned- $A37,000 - when he tied for 38th at the Quail Hollow Championship in May. Was tied for the lead at times during the third round, but finished poorly, and the final round was a struggle from start to finish as he carded a four-over 76 that included a double bogey at the final hole.

2009: March: Winner of the Male Amateur of the Year and Achievement of the Year awards at the 2009 NZ Sports Awards held in Queenstown. Honoured for his win at the U.S. Amateur in August 2008 (youngest ever winner) and his victory at the 2009 tri sanctioned Johnnie Walker Classic in February 2009 when he became the youngest ever winner on the Australasian and European Tours.

2009: February: Became the youngest ever winner on the Australsian and European Tours when he claimed the 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic as an 18 year old world No.1 ranked amateur. At 18 years and 213 days was one month younger than the previous youngest winner in Australasia, Aaron Baddeley, who claimed the 1999 Australian Open as an 18 year old amateur.

Showed why he is a star in the making when he claimed the dream victory, birdying his final two holes for a five-under-par 67 to edge out Japan’s Hiroyuki Fujita, Felipe Aguilar of Chile and overnight co-leader Ross McGowan of England by one stroke at The Vines Resort and Country Club in Western Australia.

Rocketed 404 places up the world rankings with his victory... from 562 to 158.

2008: became number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking on 20 August 2008 when he became the youngest ever winner of the U.S. Amateur, aged 18 years, one month...Tiger Woods was the previous youngest ever winner in 1994.

2007: - Winner New Zealand Under 23 Championships
- Member of 2007 Senior Men’s Trans Tasman team (Sloan Morpeth Trophy)
- NZ Golf representative to Australian Men’s Amateur
- NZ Golf representative to Lake Macquarie International

2006 - Winner New Zealand Under 23 Championships
- Winner Wairaki Amateur Open
- Winner Grant Clements Memorial Open
- Winner Te Puke Open
- Runner Up New Zealand Under 19 Championships
- Quarter Finalist US Junior Amateur
- Qualifier @ US Amateur, Australian Open, NZ Open (Professional Events)