Lee's confidence surging entering US Amateur

This isn't how Danny Lee expected to prepare for the U.S. Amateur — not that he's complaining. The world's top-ranked amateur could have worked out the few kinks in his game with a practice round or two at Pinehurst, N.C., before the national championship of amateur golf begins there Monday. Instead, he went some 75 miles across the state to Greensboro to tune up with the pros after making his first start on the PGA Tour. Perhaps even more remarkably, he stuck around the Wyndham Championship longer than anticipated after making the cut. "Playing with all these great golfers out here and competing with those great golfers, I think, is going to make me develop my game and give me lots of confidence when I get ready for (the U.S. Amateur)," Lee said. "I think it's a good opportunity to play in this. "I didn't even think about... [read full story]