Australian star Minjee Lee could add a third million-dollar collect for 2022 at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship after securing a second $1m payday without playing a shot.
Lee, who picked up $1.8m when she won this year’s US Open, didn’t play at the LPGA’s Pelican Championship, where fellow Aussie Hannah Green came fourth.
But Lee was still able to collect a second seven-figure payday for the season courtesy of victory in the season-long Aon Risk Reward Challenge, which was won by Green last year, marking back-to-back Aussie victories.
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The pair will both now vie for a massive $2.2m winner’s cheque at the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida this week before both fly home to play the historic Australian Open, where the men’s and women’s events will be…