Yang leaps up rankings

Korean Yang Yong-eun’s amazing victory over Tiger Woods in the US PGA Championship – the first win by an Asian-born player in any of the men’s majors - has taken him from 110th in the world to 34th.

Yang leaps up rankings
Mon, 17 Aug, 2009 - 10:46

Korean Yang Yong-eun’s amazing victory over Tiger Woods in the US PGA Championship – the first win by an Asian-born player in any of the men’s majors - has taken him from 110th in the world to 34th.

And that earns the 37-year-old a place in Greg Norman’s International side to take on the Americans in the Presidents Cup in San Francisco in October.

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