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Professional golfer; 2009 PGA Championship winner (first Asian-born male major champion)

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Life	1972
Era	현대
Clan	제주 양씨

Life & career

Yang Yong-eun (b. 1972) is a professional golfer from Sindo-ri, Daejeong-eup, on Jeju Island. He won his first PGA Tour title at the 2009 Honda Classic and later that year came from behind to beat Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship, becoming the first Asian-born male golfer to win a major.

Besides two PGA Tour wins he has won on the European, Japan and Korean tours; career win totals differ by source.

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양을나Eldest of the three divine founders of Tamna in the Samseong myth; founding ancestor of the Jeju Yang clan 양순Mid-founder of the Jeju Yang clan (tradition: Silla Hallim academician, enfeoffed as Lord Halla)양팽손Gimyo-purge scholar-official who defended Jo Gwang-jo; painter; pen name Hakpo 양산보Disciple of Jo Gwang-jo who created the Soswaewon garden; pen name Soswaeong 양응정Official and writer counted among the Eight Writers of King Seonjo's reign; pen name Songcheon 양산숙Righteous-army leader of the Imjin War who died at the second Battle of Jinju fortress (posthumous title Chungmin)

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