The week after the PGA Championship and the week before the FedEx Cup "playoffs" begins bring us the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship.

This is the tournament that historically was known as the Greater Greensboro Open. Recall that when Tiger Woods won the WGC Bridgestone Invitational two weeks ago, it was his seventh victory in that event. We pointed out that the record for most wins in one tournament is eight, held by Sam Snead. The Wyndham Championship (ex-GGO) is that tournament.

Check out the Wyndham Championship tourney page for the list of past champions plus more trivia and info.

Yang Stares Down Tiger, Wins PGA Championship

Sunday August 16, 2009

Fourteen times Tiger Woods had taken a lead into the final round at majors, and fourteen times he had won. Until now. Now, Woods is only 14-for-15.

Y.E. Yang started the final round of the PGA Championship one stroke behind Woods and paired with him in the final group. But unlike so many golfers before him paired with Tiger, Yang held his nerve - and held his game together. He didn't play a spectacular round, more of a steady one, but he did make big shots when he needed to.

And in the end, Yang wound up as the 91st PGA Championship winner, denying Woods a record-tying fifth win in this tournament. The final leaders:

Y.E. Yang, 73-70-67-70--280
Tiger Woods, 67-70-71-75--283
Lee Westwood, 70-72-73-70--285
Rory McIlroy, 71-73-71-70--285
Lucas Glover, 71-70-71-74--286
Martin Kaymer, 73-70-71-73--287
Ernie Els, 75-68-70-74--287
Soren Kjeldsen, 70-73-70-74--287
Henrik Stenson, 73-71-68-75--287

Yang tied Woods on the front nine, then fell a stroke back. Until the golfers reached the short par-4 14th hole. That's where Yang made his biggest shot of the day - he chipped in for eagle, jumping a stroke ahead of Woods.

Woods made only two birdies in his round against five bogies, with the putts just not falling. One of those bogies came on the 71st hole, but Yang also bogied, and the players reached the 18th with Yang up by one.

Then Yang hit his second great shot of the final round, a 3-hybrid approach to the final green that hit close to the flagstick and stopped four or five feet away. Woods's approach found the rough, and his chip-in for birdie ran long.

Yang then sank his birdie putt to seal the win. In so doing, Yang became the first player from an Asian country to win a men's major championship.

A native of Korea, the 37-year-old Yang played most of his professional golf on the Korean, Japanese and Asian tours before joining the USPGA Tour in 2008. Yang has six wins internationally, by far the biggest the 2006 HSBC Champions, where he defeated - yep - Tiger Woods by two strokes.

Yang's first PGA Tour win was this year at the Honda Classic.

And his second is a major championship - the 2009 PGA Championship.