TW is YE Yanged!

Oh my golly. Tiger loses a major after having the lead going into the final day. Has never happened. But he got himself out played by one guy: YE Yang from South Korea. The Tiger shots we are used to seeing went the other way yesterday - think the chip in eagle at 14 and then the rescue wood to 8 feet on the 18th and the birdie putt (Tiger should have putted out and given Yang the whole stage, me thinks). Of course, Tiger was not making putts and one could attribute that to not getting his iron shots close enough. Like Ben Hogan says - if you want to improve your putting, get the ball closer to the hole (with your iron play). Will be interesting to see if YE Yang has the same impact on Asian golfing as Se Ri Pak did ten plus years ago (you remember, she won the Open and all the little girls in South Korea wanted to be just like her - and, by golly, a bunch of them have turned out to be just that, dominating the LPGA these last few years - go here for an excellent article by Eric Anderson about Se Ri).

Of note: I did go out on the golf course after Tiger's last bogey putt and shared the news with Tracy Rayhill, Mike Arvin, Curt Johnson, Scott Schutte and Karry Stoll. Of course, I had to make it interesting so I took them back to the 18th tee and then the shots in the fairway and then the approach shots - leaving out who had the eight footer and who had the one just off the green. Told them that one guy got a birdie, the other a bogey, and they had to guess who did what. Four of the five gave the birdie to Tiger; Karry was the only one who picked Yang.