WA golfers Hannah Green and Minjee Lee have been selected to the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo with their world ranking 14th and 15th respectively.
Lee, who finished seventh at Rio 2016, is a five-time winner on the LPGA Tour, with two top-10 finishes already in the 2021 season.
Green has already produced four top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour this season including a runner-up spot in the Women’s World Championships in April, and became just the third Australian woman to win a major when she took out the Women’s PGA Championship in 2019.
Green is excited to be named as Australia’s third ever female Olympic golfer.
“I’m super-happy to be going to Tokyo and I can’t wait to get there,” Green said. “It’s very cool to have it set in stone after all that time trying to qualify.
“[Rio Olympians] Minjee, Su Oh and I are close. We grew up playing junior golf together and we’ve graduated to professional golf together as well and now we’re Olympians. That sounds pretty special.
“In Tokyo there are 60 great players in the field and we’ll be hoping for a good result. I’ve made a point of coming home to get myself rested and prepared so that I can get my best result in Tokyo.”
Chef de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo Ian Chesterman congratulated the golfers on their selection.
“We’re absolutely delighted to name these four wonderful golfers to the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo,” Mr Chesterman said. “Congratulations to Minjee, Hannah, Cameron and Marc, it’s fantastic to have you on the Team.
“These four athletes have shown they can compete at the highest level and I know they will represent Australia with distinction both on and off the golf course.
“We’re so excited to have Golf on the Olympic programme, it will be huge in Japan and there will be millions of Aussie fans cheering them on from back home.
The women’s golf competition will run from 4-7 August at the Kasumigaseki Country Club.
