The fan-favorite Australian competed in most of the PGA Tour’s signature events last year, but he played so poorly that he wondered if he’d rather be in the opposite-field tournaments on easier courses against weaker fields. His best signature finish was a T-17 at Pebble Beach, and he didn’t do better than 48th in all of the others. (Not that his wallet suffered; he earned more than $510,000 in six starts.) “It was at a point where I'd rather play not the signature events and play well on courses that weren't maybe as tough,” he said. “You play Bay Hill, you play any of the signature events, the rough was three, four inches long. If you just missed the fairway by a yard, you're hacking it out, which I thought was pretty tough." Lee has improved massively this year; he’s already had a T-2 at Pebble and a T-6 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.