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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Lee embracing pressure as he chases historic hat-trick

It isn’t very common to find your name in golf’s history books alongside greats such as Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.

South Korea’s KH Lee holds the honour following back-to-back triumphs at the AT&T Byron Nelson last year, which made him only the fourth player to successfully defend the historic tournament which dates back to 1944.

This week, Lee gets another crack to play his way into another page of the PGA Tour’s list of chronicles.

Securing a three-peat, or winning the same tournament in three successive years, is such a rare occurrence on tour that only three golfers in the last 40 years have achieved the feat.

American Steve Stricker was the last man to do so in 2011 at the John Deere Classic which he also won in 2009 and 2010.

Australia’s Stuart Appleby was victorious at the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii in 2004, 2005 and 2006 while Tiger…

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