Topic: Y.E. Yang

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 ...
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 ...

Yang recaptures historic form at St. Andrews

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

Wife lovelier but PGA win no guarantee of more Yang success

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Yang Yong-eun's major triumph last year made his wife look lovelier and his children sweeter but was no guarantee of future success, the South Korean said ahead of this week's U.S. Masters. Yang out-dueled Tiger Woods to win the ...

US PGA champion Yang eyes Masters glory

Asia's first major winner Yang Yong-Eun said Monday his victory in last year's PGA Championship had increased the pressure on his shoulders as he prepares for this week's Masters. South Korea's Yang held off world number one Tiger Woods in a memorable ...

Major success taking its toll, says golfer Yang

South Korea's Yang Yong-Eun admitted Wednesday that he was starting to feel the strain of being Asia's first ever Major winner. The 37-year-old became a household name in Asia after holding off Tiger Woods to win at Hazeltine Golf Club in August ...

Glover captures Grand Slam event by five strokes

Reigning US Open champion Lucas Glover fired a five-under 66 to easily win the 1.35-million-dollar PGA Grand Slam of Golf by five strokes on Wednesday. American Glover earned 600,000 dollars in prize money by posting a two-day total of 131 at the ...
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