Yang realises eastern promise

THE staff and the owner’s family were waiting outside the Hoban Korean Restaurant, applauding when Y.E. Yang arrived.

“They were supposed to be closed,” said Michael Yim, an IMG agent who works with Yang. “They said, ‘If you can come at three in the morning, we would have kept it open.’ Their eyes were teary. What just happened is huge.”

And not just for Yang. In a matter of four hours Sunday, Yang’s life – and that of every aspiring golfer around the world, but particularly in Asia– changed forever.