South Korean Y.E. Yang did the impossible on Sunday by coming from behind in a Major to beat Tiger Woods in the 2009 PGA Championship.

Yang shot a 2 under 70 on Sunday while woods struggled to a 3 over 75.  Yang beat Woods by 3 strokes 280 - 283.

The upset victory by Yang guarantees that Tiger, despite winning several golf tournaments this year, will not win one of the four prized Majors.  Woods had said before that any year he doesn’t win a Major is a disappointment.

The 37-year old Yang is the first Asian to ever win a golfing Major.  Woods had been 14-0 when heading into the final day of a Major with the lead.

Blogs and pundits across the globe are calling Yang ‘Asia Major.’

The Y.E. stands for Yong-Eun.

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Holly Sweeney, who is just 16 years old and the girlfriend of professional Irish golfer, Rory McIlroy, is having a hard time learning how to deal with being in the spotlight but still wants to keep a low profile, staying in the background while her boyfriend shines.

Rory said, “Holly is quite shy. This is the first time she has been in the media spotlight and she has handled herself really well, but I think she doesn’t want to turn into a typical girlfriend of a sports person, so she likes to take a back seat.”

He added: “There is obviously a lot of attention now and we don’t want to turn into a typical Posh and Becks-type couple. We just want to lie under the radar.”

Rory is the youngest player to make the top 50. The 20 year-old was invited to U.S. Masters in April 2009, only 18 months after turning pro and his first professional win came when he won the Dubai Desert Classic on 1 February 2009, this win took him to 16th in the world rankings.

Rory McIlroy & Girlfriend Holly Sweeney

Golfer Tiger Woods and his caddy Steve Williams were involved in a very embarrassing situation when a fart was heard loud and clear (watch video below) on the 18th during the 2009 Buick Open, which Tiger won for the third time.

“I’ve played all around the world, and I’ve never seen a day like this,” Woods told the media. “This event has always been special, but today was something else.”

Tiger and Steve laughed off the fart incident but it’s interesting to note this isn’t the first time Tiger has sealed an event with a fart, having also farted when he won the Arnold Palmer invitational in March.

Tiger Woods Fart Video

Golf Champion Tiger Woods’ nice, Cheyenne Woods, made her professional debut on Saturday (June 27) at the Wegmans LPGA in Rochester after receiving a sponsor’s exemption. The 18 year-old golfer did not make the cut finishing at 5-over 149 — four strokes above the cutline – but she is ready to make a name for herself.

Cheyenne said: “There is the expectation of ‘Woods. I’ve grown up with it. I’m used to having the title and seeing the headlines read ‘Tiger Woods’ niece.’ But I also want to make a name for myself.”

“My goal was to make the cut, but I thought I played well for the most part,” she said, masking her disappointment with a smile similar to her famous uncle’s. “I was … comfortable out there and then, I don’t know, I just had a lot of fun and just tried to take in the moment.”

A freshman on the highly ranked Wake Forest University women’s golf team, Golfweek ranks Cheyenne at No. 100 out of 2000 female college golfers. Cheyenne is the daughter of Earl Woods Jr., Tiger’s half brother. The young golfer was taught how to play by the same man who taught Tiger everything he knows, her grandfather and Tiger’s dad, the late Earl Woods Sr..

Cheyenne Woods Pictures

Beth Smith, wife of professional golfer Chris Smith who has been competing on the PGA tour since 1991, was reportedly killed in a car accident when her sport utility vehicle collided with a Greyhound bus transporting a Canadian semipro football team.

Beth and Chris’ two children, Abigail and Cameron Smith are in a critical condition at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hospital. There is no more information at the current time. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

Golfer Phil Mickelson has canceled his next tournaments (HP Byron Nelson and Crowne Plaza Invitational) where he is the defending champion because his wife Amy Mickeslon was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Amy is expected to undergo major surgery in the next two week. Phil and Amy tied the knot in 1996 and they have three children together.

Phil & Amy Mickelson Pictures

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Golf might have just become less yawning with the arrival of sexy Maria Verchenova! Maria is a young player from Russia who wants to just as good and determined in golf as Maria Sharapova is playing tennis.

“I am looking at Maria, not because of the way she looks but because of the way she plays,” Verchenova explains. “I think Russian women are strong mentally. They are trying really hard and they are achieving things.”

Maria is a full-time member of the Ladies European Tour and has played against golf champion Anna Sorenstam at the 2008 Dubai Ladies Masters. I’m sure we will hear about Maria in the future and not just because she is gorgeous but also talented.

Sexy Maria Verchenova Pictures

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Tiger as a Little Boy

Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren Woods are parents for the second time. Elin gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday

The baby’s name is Charlie Axel Woods, said the proud father, adding, “Both Charlie and Elin are doing great and we want to thank everyone for their sincere best wishes and kind thoughts.”

This is the second child for the couple, whose daughter, Sam Alexis, was born in June 2007, the day after Woods placed second in the U.S. Open.

The couple’s first child, a daughter, is named Sam Alexis.

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Troubled XXXXL golfer John Daly was arrested Sunday at a Hooters in Winston Salem, North Carolina, when cops found him intoxicated and passed out in front of the ‘wings’ establishment.

Police said in a statement Wednesday that said officers went to the restaurant on a medical call. When they arrived, Daly was being treated by emergency workers after losing consciousness.

While at the restaurant, police said Daly “appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative,” refused repeatedly to be taken to the hospital and was asked to leave the restaurant by several workers.

If Daly were in the NFL, commissioner Roger Goodell would have already suspsended him for life.  Daly is the Pacman Jones of golf with slightly less violence but more stupidity.  The person Daly hurts most often is himself.

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ESPY Awards 2009 Winners & Red Carpet Photos

Here is a complete list of the winners from the 2008 ESPY Awards.  It is always anti-climatic when an award show is filmed several days before it is set to air. To top that off ESPN.com, on their front page, tells everyone who won every single award from last night’s 2008 ESPY Awards. The ESPY’s will air July 20th on ESPN.

Special Awards

• Arthur Ashe Courage Award: John Carlos and Tommie Smith, 1968 Olympic medalists
• Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Kevin Everett, former Buffalo Bills TE
• Best comeback: Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers

Best in Sport

• Best Female Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball/Los Angeles Sparks
• Best Male Athlete: Tiger Woods, Golf
• Best Moment: “Great Sportsmanship” (Central Washington University’s Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, Western Oregon University’s Sara Tucholsky)
• Best Team: Boston Celtics
• Best Coach/Manager: Pat Summitt, Tennessee Women’s Basketball
• Best Game: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Championship Performance: Tiger Woods, 2008 U.S. Open
• Best Play: New York Giants Eli Manning’s pass to David Tyree at the Super Bowl
• Best Finish: Western Kentucky over Drake in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, winning on a buzzer beater by Ty Rogers
• Best Upset: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Breakthrough Athlete: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
• Best Record Breaking Performance: Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers
• Best Sports Movie: Semi-Pro
• Best Male College Athlete: Tim Tebow, Florida Football
• Best Female College Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball
• Best Male Athlete With a Disability: Ryan Kocer, Wrestling (Wagner, SD)
• Best Female Athlete With a Disability: Shay Oberg, Softball (Montana State-Billings)
• Best International Male Athlete: Rafael Nadal, Tennis
• Best International Female Athlete: Lorena Ochoa, Golf

Individual Sports

• Best Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
• Best NBA Player: Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
• Best WNBA Player: Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
• Best NFL Player: Tom Brady, New England Patriots
• Best NHL Player: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
• Best MLS Player: David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy
• Best Male Action Sport Athlete: Shaun White, Skateboarding/Snowboarding
• Best Female Action Sport Athlete: Gretchen Bleiler, Snowboarding
• Best Bowler: Norm Duke
• Best Driver: Jimmie Johnson
• Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather, Boxing
• Best Golfer: Tiger Woods
• Best Jockey: Kent Desormeaux
• Best Outdoor Athlete: Captain Scott Smiley, Mountain Climber
• Best Male Tennis Player: Roger Federer
• Best Female Tennis Player: Maria Sharapova
• Best Track and Field Athlete: Tyson Gay

Tiger Woods hit a dramatic putt on the 18th hole yesterday at Torrey Pines to set up today’s playoff round of 18 holes between Woods and Rocco Mediate, the 158th ranked golfer in the world. I know many are at work and away from a TV this morning so I am going to do my best job to live blog the round hole-by-hole right here.

The round starts at 12:00pm EST/9:00am PST (tee time) on ESPN then moves to NBC after the first two hours.
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Tiger Woods has a lot of ground to catch up if he is going to win this years Masters golf tournament from Augusta, Georgia.  The leader after the first two days is Trevor Immelman who is -8.  He is followed by American Brandt Snedeker who is at -7.  Woods is even at 7 strokes back at -1.  He will tee off at 1:10pm EST on Saturday.

Here is a look at the leader board heading into Saturday morning.

1. -8 Trevor Immelman
2. -7 Brandt Snedeker
3.  -5 Ian Poulter
4. -5 Steve Flesch
5. -5 Phil Mickelson
6. -4 Paul Casey
7. -4 Stephen Ames
8. -3 Aaron Oberholser
9. -3 Mike Weir
10. -3 Stewart Cink
11. -2 Retief Goosen
12. -2 Lee Westwood
13. -1 Tiger Woods
14. -1 Nick Dougherty
15. -1 Robert Karlsson
16. -1 Jim Furyk
17. -1 Vijay Singh
18. -1 J.B. Holmes
19. -1 Sean O’Hair

Golfweek magazine has fired editor Dave Seanor after his decision to run a cover photo of a ‘noose’ in wake of Kelly Tilghman’s ‘lynch’ remarks regarding Tiger Woods.

“Clearly, what Kelly said was inappropriate and unfortunate, and she obviously regrets her choice of words,” Finchem said in a statement. “But we consider Golfweek’s imagery of a swinging noose on its cover to be outrageous and irresponsible. It smacks of tabloid journalism. It was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion.”

Seanor will be replaced by Jeff Babineau as editor.

Tilgman was suspended for two weeks from The Golf Channel for the original remark that started the firestorm.

Kelly Tilghman is in an Olympic size pool of hot water after her comments about young golfers needing to lynch Tiger Woods.  Kelly is the anchor for the Golf  Channel.  She has apologized for the comments and to Wood’s rep.

Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has made a round of apologies after saying that young golf players should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley” as a way to compete with the most dominant player in the sport’s history, ESPN reported Tuesday.

Tilghman made the remarks during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event at the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Tilghman does play-by-play for the PGA Tour on the Golf Channel.  She is the first woman to do so.  She played golf for Duke in college.

Even with the apology, I think it will be hard for Kelly to keep her job.

More Kelly Tilghman Photos

Elin Nordegren, the wife of golfer Tiger Woods, has won a lawsuit with an Irish magazine after the rag published fake nude pictures of the former model.

An Irish magazine apologised to Tiger Woods’s wife Elin Nordegren Woods on Friday and agreed to pay the former model “substantial” damages after it published fake nude pictures during the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club. “The false and deeply offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me and my family,” Nordegren Woods said in a statement.

Financial terms were not disclosed but it is believed that the magazine agreed to pay nearly $200,000 dollars over the course of two years.

Woods and Nordegren wed back in 2004 and have a daughter together.

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Natalie Gulbis (view bikini modeling pics here) and Anna Kournikova play different sports but Gulbis has been compared repeatedly to Kournikova since her debut on the LPGA women’s golf tour.  The comparison is inevitable because both women are super-sexy and talented in their respective sports.

Also, neither has ever won a major tournament until yesterday when Gulbis won the Evian Masters LPGA golf tournament in Evian-Les-Baines, France.

Famous mostly for her looks through five-plus seasons on tour, Gulbis broke through Sunday, winning her first LPGA Tour title at the Evian Masters with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff with Jang Jeong of South Korea on Sunday.

“Obviously it was meant to be for me,” Gulbis said. “Before the playoff, I was very upset at myself because I felt like I had given away this tournament. I thought I needed to get to 7 under to win and I end up at, what, four? Going in today, I never thought that four under would have won this tournament.”

The tall, blond Gulbis has been one of the best-known players on the LPGA tour. She sells a calendar on her Web site featuring shots of her in athletic apparel and swimwear, has a reality show on The Golf Channel and her digitized likeness appears in Tiger Woods’ eponymous video game.

Congrats to Natalie on her first LPGA tour win. Many more are sure to follow. If you all of a sudden have a Natalie Gulbis itch then you can scratch it with a smorgasborg of her sexy pics by clicking here.

Golf great Tiger Woods became a first time father on Monday after his wife Elin gave birth to a baby daughter.  Her name is Sam Alexis.

“Both Elin and Sam are doing well and resting peacefully,” Woods wrote. “We want to thank our doctors and the hospital staff for all their dedicated and hard work. This is truly a special time in our lives and we look forward to introducing Sam to our family and friends over the next few weeks. We thank everyone for their well wishes and continued respect of our privacy.”

Woods said he would miss a major if it meant seeing the birth of his child. Now he won’t have to, but it’s not clear how his upcoming schedule will be affected.

Congrats to Tiger, Elin and their new cub. Watch out LPGA!

Tiger Woods won golf’s PGA Championship on Sunday.  The win was the 12th Major golf championship for Woods which puts him in 2nd place all-time. Jack Nicklaus has the most Majors ever with 18.

Tiger was near perfect on Sunday.  Woods shot a 4 under 68 on Sunday to win by five strokes over fellow American Shaun Micheel.  Luke Donald, who started the day in second, finished tied for third. 

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Most Major Championships
18 — Jack Nicklaus
12 — Tiger Woods
11 — Walter Hagen
9 — Ben Hogan
9 — Gary Player
8 — Tom Watson