Mon 13 Nov 2006
Underdog Yang Yong-eun Takes the HSBC Champions title
South Korea’s Yang Yong-eun surprised everyone this weekend when he won the HSBC over Tiger Woods and other top contenders. “Woods failed to win a 72-hole tournament for the first time since July 9, finishing two shots behind South Korea’s Yang Yong-eun in the HSBC Champions on Sunday. Yang, a regular on the Japanese tour who has played infrequently outside Asia, closed with a 3-under 69 Sunday for a 14-under 274 and a two stroke victory over Woods at the HSBC Champions tournament. Yang won $833,000.”
Read more on Yang Yong-eun at ESPN.
November 20th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
[...] As if last week’s loss to Yang Yong-eun wasn’t shocking enough, this weekend he blew a final round lead and was thus defeated again, this time by Padraig Harrington at the Dunlop Phoenix. [...]