After Yang took down Tiger, major golf was never the same - ESPN
16, 2009, Tiger Woods stood on the first tee at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, as the undisputed master of his universe. The final round of the PGA Championship set up for Woods much like his scorched-earth pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major championships. Woods was also an undefeated heavyweight (14-0 in majors when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead) and also facing an opponent defined by his zillion-to-1 odds. But Yang Yong-eun, or Y. E. Yang , a 37-year-old journeyman out of South Korea, carried a 15th club in his bag for a PGA pairing out of his wildest dreams: He had beaten Woods at the 2006 HSBC Champions in Shanghai. Though Yang didn't play with Woods in the fourth round of that event, he had proven to everyone -- most notably himself -- that he could finish a 72-hole golf tournament in fewer strokes than the sum required by one of the two greatest players of... Yang was ranked 460th in the world before his first victory on American soil -- at the Honda Classic -- in March 2009, and the PGA Championship five months later was not, you know, the Honda Classic. Woods was only 14 months removed from winning one of those on one leg. Tiger Woods was about to get Buster Douglas'd. Source: espn.go.com
