Topic: Y.E. Yang
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. Golf Association officials tipped their cap to the brilliance of U.S. Open runaway leader Rory McIlroy, but said Mother Nature had a hand in the low scoring this week at Congressional.McIlroy has ripped up the long, tree-lined ...
Rory McIlroy put his Masters misery firmly behind him Thursday, firing a superb six-under 65 for a three-stroke lead in the first round of the 111st US Open at Congressional Country Club.The previous round of major golf for the then 21-year-old Ulsterman ...
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - South Korea's Yang Yong-eun, the first Asian man to win a golf major, surged into a tie for the Masters lead with a string of three birdies early in the second round on Friday.Under overcast skies that threatened ...
Yang Yong-eun's shocking upset over Tiger Woods in the 2009 PGA Championship made him the first Asian to win a major title and elevated him to rock-star status in his native South Korea.Case in point is the reception he received when he ...
England's Simon Khan, South Korean Noh Seung-Yul and Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castro were among players who received special invitations on Monday into next week's PGA Championship.The PGA of America filled the 156-man field for the year's final major tournament at Whistling Straits with ...
Asia's top-ranked golfer, Yang Yong-Eun, will head to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin next month to defend his PGA Championship title. Yang credits his success in Shanghai at golf's biggest event in Asia for preparing him to face down the best player of ...
Yang Yong-Eun, the South Korean who became Asia's first major men's golf champion by winning last year's PGA Championship, showed top form Thursday in the first round of the British Open.The 38-year-old from Seoul fired a bogey-free five-under par 67 to stand ...
PGA Champion Yang is in fine form again at year's first majorPGA champion Y.E. Yang won't let himself think about winning back-to-back majors even though he is back atop the leaderboard again.The winner of last year's final major is one stroke off ...
Yang Yong-Eun, who won last year's PGA Championship for Asia's first major men's golf title, fired a five-under par 67 to stand one stroke off the first-round lead at the Masters.The 38-year-old South Korean, displaying the form he used to outduel Tiger ...
Yang Yong-Eun, who won last year's PGA Championship for Asia's first major men's golf title, fired a five-under par 67 on Thursday to grab a share of the first-round lead at the 74th Masters.The 38-year-old South Korean, displaying the form he used ...
