Yong "Eagle" Lands On Woods In PGA Shocker

He's called Y.E. Yang.

Make that Yong "Eagle" Yang.

The "Eagle" has landed and landed squarely on Tiger Woods, and produced perhaps the greatest golf upset of the decade Sunday in the final round of the 91st PGA Championship.

Certainly, no one at Hazeltine expected Yong "Eagle" to pull this one off.

No one on Planet Golf Saturday night would have suspected that Woods, the world's greatest golfer and its greatest closer, would not win his fifth PGA championship and his 15th major.

After all, Tiger was a perfect 11-for-11 when leading a major at the 54-hole point.

No one would have predicted that this unheralded Korean golfer would stun the world's No. 1.

If Tiger were to falter, surely it would have been Paddy Harrington or Lucas Glover or some major champion who would step up and steal this major from Woods.

Harrington bowed out when he played the eighth hole like a 20-handicapper. He hit two balls in the water and finished with an eight and was done.

Glover bogeyed his way out of the competition and was a non-factor by the 12th hole.

That left Woods  and Yang—Mano-a-Mano—locked in what became match play.

Tiger surrendered his overnight lead with an un-Tigerlike 38 on the front. Yang was steady at even par and both were six-under at the turn.

Woods held a one-shot lead after No. 11, then lost it with a bogey at No. 12.

They were deadlocked on the driveable par four 14th, both six under.

Tiger drove in a greenside bunker and blasted out to eight feet.

Yang stared at a long chip from just short of the green.

Then the unimaginable, the unthinkable, the improbable happened.

The "Eagle" landed.

Yang's eagle chip rolled and rolled and rolled steadily toward the hole then fell mightily into the cup.

It could have ended there but Woods responded with his own birdie, yet trailed Yang by a shot.

Both made par at No. 15, Woods missed a makeable birdie putt.

Par, par at No. 16, Yang eight-under, Tiger seven-under.

At the par three 17th, Woods flew the green and faced an impossible chip, but over the  years, Tiger has made the impossible, probable.

But not this time.

He came up 12 feet short, yet had a grand opportunity when Yang's putt from 30-some feet came up seven very nervous feet short.

Surely, Woods would make a miracle par and Yang would miss.

Both missed and Woods still trailed with only the 72nd hole to play.

Yong "Eagle" then put an exclamation point on his day with a three-hybrid second shot that nearly went in the hole, stopping seven feet away.

Woods, again was off, landing hole-high in the high fringe.

Tiger's chip finished just inside Yang and it was all but over.

Yang poured his birdie in and showed his elation, while Woods could only bow his head.

The impossible turned possible.

For the first time in the history of golf, an Asian player won a major.

For the first time in his storied career, Tiger Woods could not close the deal in a major.

For the first time Tiger finished bogey-bogey to shoot 75 and lost a major.

But on this day, Tiger didn't lose, he had it taken from him.

Yong "Eagle" Yang landed with the Wanamaker Trophy and a winning 280 total thanks to his closing 70.

It was a historic day in the history of golf.

Most historic, a mighty upset, surely one of the most memorable.