Hours After Lydia Ko Candidly Reflected on Disheartening Season, 2X Major Winning LPGA Star Comes Clean About Struggles With ‘High Expectations’
Handling a dull phase in one’s career is quite hard, especially if millions are constantly looking up your numbers and talking about it. This is the life for people in the public eye, though. The struggle is especially real for sports stars since there is a lot more access to their performance both visually and statistically.
Lydia Ko, recently got emotional while discussing her setback in the current season, after having a brilliant year in 2022. She spoke about this in a conference at the ongoing Kroger Queen City Championship. Now, another LPGA Tour Pro has opened up about her struggles with handling expectations from herself and the fans.
In a post-round conference, after her crowd-pleasing third round at the Queen City tournament, Minjee Lee opened up about her current season’s performance. She received a question about her current season’s setback compared to the spectacular season she had the previous year. “I think it’s always really hard to back up an amazing year with another really amazing year.”
Lee explained how coming into this year, there was a lot of pressure on her, mostly from her own expectations. She described how she wanted to repeat that brilliance consecutively. “Why can’t I do that every week? But obviously you can’t because you’re human.”
She spoke about how resetting her goals has helped her big time. Lee probably is referring to more realistic expectations for herself, focusing on immediate goals rather than long-term ones. She said this was possible for her as she is a one-shot-at-a-time kind of person.
