Lee fired a second-round five-under-par 66 to share the half-way lead with American Mina Harigae at the US Women's Open at Pine Needles.
Minjee Lee has rocketed to the top of the leaderboard with a supreme second round at the mega-rich US Women's Open in North Carolina.Minjee Lee is in equal-first at the US Women's Open at the half-way stage after firing a five-under-par-66 on Saturday
Lee and Harigae are nine-under for the championship, holding a two-stroke buffer over Korean Hye-Jin Choi and Sweden's three-time major winner Anna Nordqvist . But the 26-year-old world number four left her eight-metre birdie putt short on the last hole at Pine Needles Golf and Country Club.
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