The new season of Netflix’s Full Swing premiered February 25, and for the first time in the show’s history, an LPGA player is featured in one of the episodes.
Two-time major champion and 10-time winner on the LPGA Tour Minjee Lee is featured alongside her brother, PGA Tour player Min Woo Lee in episode five of the third season, titled “Two Tickets to Paris.” The episode mostly focuses on Min Woo and fellow PGA Tour star Wyndham Clark and their tight races to represent their countries at the Paris Olympics.
LPGA fans may want to temper expectations for this anticipated episode.
Minjee Lee is not featured much here. There are clips shown from Min Woo watching her in the opening rounds of the T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek, and Minjee returning the favor at the U.S. Open. Minjee does have a couple of confessionals, but much of the early episode is focused on showing the contrast between the siblings. Minjee as a reserved but successful star and Min Woo as an outgoing, social-media driven personality. Much of the editing of the episode seems to portray Minjee as, for lack of a better term, boring. Something that I feel those who follow the LPGA will find a bit off base from reality.
The episode does well to make Minjee’s accomplishments clear. On the course she is the star of the family at the moment. Yet, in 2024 there were more interesting places this episode could have gone. Min Woo was becoming a beloved player on the PGA Tour at the same time Minjee had her worst season of her career. A focus on Minjee’s feelings watching her brother blossom while her game struggled could have been fascinating to see.
The end of the episode ties Minjee back in through the Olympics. The episode sells the accomplishment of both Lee siblings making the Olympics as the first time two siblings have made it to the games in golf. That isn’t entirely true, as Jessica and Nelly Korda of course made the Tokyo Olympics together. While this is the first time a PGA Tour player made it alongside a sibling, this shows the sometimes frustratingly narrow lens of the show.
I do like Full Swing in general, it has always been a day one binge for me. That being said, this episode could have done so much more when it came to the story of Minjee and Min Woo Lee.
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