With the Olympic golf competitions happening in successive weeks and the regular grinds of the PGA and LPGA tours continuing to chug along, there’s little time for team bonding among the respective national men’s and women’s teams.
But the four Australian Olympic golfers — Hannah Green, Jason Day and siblings Minjee and Min Woo Lee — found some time for a bite out in Paris this week, Minjee Lee said Monday.
And their dinner conversation was revealing.
“It seems like the guys talk much more about golf than we do,” Green said. “Even yesterday they were just talking about golf swing positions and things like that. I honestly don’t talk about that at all. Sometimes even at the golf course, I don’t even talk about it.”
Green even took the classification a step further.
“They are just golf nerds. But it was fun,” she joked.
If you’re wondering just how big of a golf nerd Day is, Minjee Lee is here to explain.
“Like, Jason Day was air gripping and stuff like that, all the golf mechanisms,” said Minjee, who has won two LPGA majors. “A little different perspective of what we talk about and how when we have dinner, we don’t talk about golf at all. It was just nice, just a different perspective that he has and what Min has.”
One of us!
Anyway, it goes further. A reporter asked the pair for clarification about how much Day and Min Woo were talking about their swings at dinner.
Lee started to answer before Green cut her off.
“Looking at swing videos on their phone,” she said.
Does this justify the behavior of you whipping out your cell phone at the dinner table to try and diagnose what’s causing your wicked slice with your tablemates? Probably not. In fact, it seems if your dining with an LPGA player, according to Lee and Minjee, you probably won’t get very far.
Fortunately for Green and Minjee, the chitchat wasn’t all business — after all, who likes talking shop at the table? The pair also said they talked about food, but that also led to another revealing difference between the male and female squads.
“I guess the boys went to the same Italian restaurant four times this week and we went there last night, and they already knew what was good to order on menu,” Green said. “And then we talked about what we typically eat on the road and things like that.”
Sounds like the Italian restaurant — which, lest you need reminding, is in Paris, France — was good, but Green and Minjee likely will be dining elsewhere for the rest of the Game.
