CHASKA (Minnesota): South Korean Yang Yong-eun entered the territory where no Asian male had gone before when he upstaged Tiger Woods by winning the PGA Championship by three strokes on Sunday.
Despite several near misses since Taiwan’s Lu Liang-huan ran Lee Trevino desperately close at the 1971 British Open, the golfing world had patiently awaited the first Asian-born winner of a major.
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