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Mon, 06/20/2011 - 03:50
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Yang ties for third at U.S. Open
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) - South Korea's Yang Yong-eun tied for third at the U.S. Open golf championship, which ended Sunday just outside Washington.
At the year's second major tournament held at the Congressional Country Club, Yang finished at six-under, 10 strokes behind the champion Rory McIlroy. Yang began the day in second place, eight behind McIlroy, but shot an even-par round of 71 to drop into a three-way tie for third, along with Kevin Chappell, Robert Garrigus and Lee Westwood.
Yang began his day with five straight pars, then had his first birdie on sixth. Consecutive birdies on Nos. 9 and 10 took Yang to nine-under. But he put his second shot into water on the par-4 11th and had a bogey to fall to -8.
Yang, 39, struggled with his tee shots on the back nine and committed another bogey on No. 15. With the bogey on 18th, Yang failed to join McIlroy and Garrigus as only players to shoot all four rounds under par.
Yang, the 2009 PGA Championship winner, remains the only Asian with a major title in golf. The four major events each year are the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship.
McIlroy, 22, went wire to wire for his first major victory. His winning score of 268 is the lowest winning total in U.S. Open history.
Among eight South Koreans and three Korean-Americans in Washington, a record number for a major, four missed the cut. After Yang, Kim Kyung-tae, Noh Seung-yul and Kim Do-hoon were the next best Koreans, in a nine-way tie for 30th at two-over.
At the year's second major tournament held at the Congressional Country Club, Yang finished at six-under, 10 strokes behind the champion Rory McIlroy. Yang began the day in second place, eight behind McIlroy, but shot an even-par round of 71 to drop into a three-way tie for third, along with Kevin Chappell, Robert Garrigus and Lee Westwood.
Yang began his day with five straight pars, then had his first birdie on sixth. Consecutive birdies on Nos. 9 and 10 took Yang to nine-under. But he put his second shot into water on the par-4 11th and had a bogey to fall to -8.
Yang, 39, struggled with his tee shots on the back nine and committed another bogey on No. 15. With the bogey on 18th, Yang failed to join McIlroy and Garrigus as only players to shoot all four rounds under par.
Yang, the 2009 PGA Championship winner, remains the only Asian with a major title in golf. The four major events each year are the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship.
McIlroy, 22, went wire to wire for his first major victory. His winning score of 268 is the lowest winning total in U.S. Open history.
Among eight South Koreans and three Korean-Americans in Washington, a record number for a major, four missed the cut. After Yang, Kim Kyung-tae, Noh Seung-yul and Kim Do-hoon were the next best Koreans, in a nine-way tie for 30th at two-over.
