Y.E. Yang, New Name in Golf, Wins Big
18 August 2009
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In a stunning late play win, Yang Yong-eun, or Y.E. Yang as he is known, became Korea’s first male pro golfer to win a PGA Tournament and is also the first in Asia. What made the win sweeter than the $1.35 million in prize money? Perhaps it was the 3-stroke win over Tiger Woods.
Also consider that the Jeju-do native picked up his first golf club at 19 and is self-taught. It’s very much like the plucky movie, “국가대표,” a true-to-life story about Korea’s first Olympic ski jumping team.
Y.E. Yang is now invited to four more major championships over the next five years, which could earn him up to $10-million more, and a berth on the International Team in the President’s Cup.
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