Yang Yong-eun - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

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Yang Yong-eun Biography

Yang Yong-eun is one of the most popular and richest Golfer who was born on January 15, 1972 in Daejeon, South Korea. Most well-known for his heroics in overcoming He is best known for coming from behind to defeat Tiger Woods at the 2009 PGA Championship. during the 2009 PGA Championship.

On conclusion of his service, he moved to New Zealand, where he pursued a professional career in golf. He turned semi-pro on 21 July 1995 and pro on 22 August 1996. Yang is married to Young-Joo Park and has three sons. He is an active owner of an indoor golf range in the Koreatown section of Dallas. He currently resides in Southlake, Texas, near fellow South Korean PGA player K. J. Choi.

In 2006 he won the Korea Open, an Asian Tour event, gaining him entry into the HSBC Champions Tournament in November 2006. He won the tournament, beating a strong field including runner-up Tiger Woods. The victory earned him membership of the European Tour and moved him into the top 40 of the Official World Golf Ranking. In 2008 he played on the PGA Tour after earning his membership through qualifying school; he had to regain his tour card in 2009 after placing 157th on the money list in 2008. Yang won his first title on the PGA Tour at the 2009 Honda Classic in his 46th career start in the United States. With this win, he became only the second Korean after K. J. Choi to win on the PGA Tour.

He married Young-JooPark during his career and had three children with her.

He was the second Korean winner of a PGA Tour event.

Yang Yong-eun (Korean: 양용은 , pronounced [jaŋ joŋ ɯn] ; born 15 January 1972), or Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including most notably the 2009 PGA Championship where he came from behind to defeat Tiger Woods.

Yang Yong-eun Net Worth

Yang is one of the richest Golfer from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yang Yong-eun's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

In 1996, he became a professional.

On 16 August 2009, Yang won the 91st PGA Championship, his first major championship, overcoming a two-shot deficit going into the final round to finish three strokes ahead of Woods, his playing partner. The victory was the first major championship for a male player born in Asia, surpassing the runners-up finishes achieved by Lu Liang-Huan in the 1971 Open Championship, Isao Aoki in the 1980 U.S. Open and Chen Tze-chung in the 1985 U.S. Open. The previous best finish by a Korean was Choi’s 3rd place in the 2004 Masters Tournament. It was also the first time that Woods had failed to win a major after holding at least a share of the lead at the end of 54 holes. Yang was ranked 110th worldwide prior to the tournament, but moved up to 34th after the victory. The win earned Yang a five-year PGA Tour exemption and helped him to a top ten finish overall on the PGA Tour.

Yang reached a career high OWGR ranking of 19th in 2010, but a string of bad finishes and missed cuts in 2013 and 2014 plummeted the former major winner to 638th at the end of 2014, the final year of his PGA Tour exemption after winning the 2009 PGA Championship. A poor 2014 saw Yang finish well outside the top 150 in the FedEx Cup, which limited him to the Past Champions category for 2015. Yang spent much of 2015 playing on the European Tour and Asian Tour. 2015 saw a resurgence for Yang, making the cut at the PGA Championship for the first time in multiple years. Yang moved up to 262nd in the world by November 2015.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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The following week Yang was in contention for his 3rd PGA Tour title at The Honda Classic, an event where he had earned his inaugural PGA Tour win in 2009. Despite entering the final round five strokes behind the eventual winner Rory Sabbatini, he was able to close the gap to just one stroke by birdieing the par-three 15th, where he was 18 inches away from a hole in one. However, needing an eagle on the par-five 18th after Sabbatini had stretched his lead to two with a birdie on the par-four 16th, he was unable to hole his bunker shot and a birdie earned him a runner-up finish one stroke behind the winner.

Who is Yang Yong-eun Dating?

According to our records, Yang Yong-eun married to Young-Joo Park . As of January 13, 2024, Yang Yong-eun’s is not dating anyone.

In April 2010, Yang won the Volvo China Open with a one-under-par 71 final round.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
“T” = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

In February 2011, Yang had his best run at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship reaching the quarter-finals before eventually succumbing to American Matt Kuchar, 2 & 1. Previously Yang had defeated Álvaro Quirós on the 20th hole in round one, Stewart Cink, 4 & 3, in round two and the 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell in round three, 3 & 2.

Facts & Trivia

Yang Ranked on the list of most popular Golfer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Yang Yong-eun celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.

After a poor 2016 European Tour season where he finished outside 110th, Yang regained his Tour card through Q School.

Has a Korean golfer won a major?

In the men’s majors, the first Asian golfer to win didn’t come along until 2009, when Y.E. Yang of South Korea won the PGA Championship.

Has KJ Choi won a major?

Has Michelle Wie won a major?

Driving by Pinehurst No. 2, where she won, Wie West commented that it looked like a cool course. She had no idea it was the course that made her a major champion. “I think I just blacked out that week,” she said with a laugh. Wie West met with reporters ahead of the 77th U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles.

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Has Hideki Matsuyama won a major?

Hideki Matsuyama won a major at the 2021 Masters Tournament, becoming the first male player from Japan to win a major and the second man from Asia to win a major. Matsuyama also led the 2020 Players Championship after an opening-round, course record-tying 63.

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