Y.E. Yang's Road to the 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Port Royal

Seemingly out of nowhere, Y.E. Yang (ranked 110th at that time) rallied ahead and won by 3 shots over Tiger Woods, in turn taking the PGA Championship at Hazeltine National this August. It was his third appearance in the PGA Golf Championship.
By: Port Royal / Imagine Golf Club
 
Oct. 13, 2009 - PRLog -- The fourth and final spot in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf (to be held in Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda), was favoured to go to perennial favourite Tiger Woods (who led after 54 holes).  Seemingly out of nowhere, Y.E. Yang (ranked 110th at that time) rallied ahead and won by 3 shots over Tiger Woods, in turn taking the PGA Championship at Hazeltine National this August. It was his third appearance in the PGA Golf Championship, as he finished 47th in 2005 and missed the cut in 2007.

As the first Asian born male golfer to win a golf Major championship, Y.E. Yang has actually won previous PGA Tour, European Tour and Asian Tour tournaments, the more notable ones including the 2009 Honda Classic, which was his first event of the PGA tour and the HSBC Champions Tournament in 2006, for which he qualified for via an Asian tour event and ended up beating a strong field of competitors, including Tiger Woods once again.

2009 has easily been Yang’s breakout year though.  With PGA Tour earnings not even hitting six figures until 2008, his rankings (now up to 23rd) and earnings have increased drastically since.  Yang however, still gets the “underdog” treatment, as many oddsmakers list him as the “longshot” to win the grand slam tournament in October 2009.  And he’s perfectly fine with that.  After all, no one picked him to make the comeback in Hazeltine and take the grand slam spot away from Tiger Woods either.

Also competing in this years PGA golf grand slam are Lucas Glover, Angel Cabrera and Stewart Cink.  Find out how it all unfolds by visiting the Port Royal Golf website at http://www.portroyalgolf.bm – hosts of the 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf, where you can read more about each of the players, or view close up shots of each hole on the golf course.  

And if you can’t make it to Bermuda in October, Port Royal has partnered with Imagine Golf Club, on a game that simulates the scenic 16th hole of the course, where the best scores can win prizes, including a trip for two to Bermuda!  Play the Port Royal game at http://www.imaginegolfclub.com/games.htm

For more details on each of the four finalists, please visit:
http://www.portroyalgolf.bm/grand-slam/players.htm

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