Min Woo Lee is too young to be weighed down by a past and too inexperienced to know true defeat. Yet what was supposed to be easy suddenly wasn’t, and his once five-shot lead evaporating into potential scar tissue,

What looked like a pleasant and reasonably easy Sunday afternoon for one of the PGA Tour’s brighter young stars had twists and turns, but Min Woo Lee was able to hold off the top-ranked player in the world to win the Houston Open. It is Lee’s first PGA Tour victory, finishing at 20-under-par, one shot ahead of Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland.

Min Woo Lee kept his calm amid tremendous charges by Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland, winning the Houston Open on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title with the best lag of his life that set up a final par for a one-shot victory.