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...driving range - a job he took because in addition to the pay, he was able to eat and sleep at the range. Yang had graduated from an agricultural high school, and when one of his former teachers, Kang Wan-ho, heard that his former student was working at a golf range, "I figured he was just taking care of the lawn," Kang says...
...Korean army at the age of 21, the same age Woods was when he won his first major. His father Yang Han-joon, a poor farmer from Jeju, far from encouraging him to play (as Tiger's late father Earl did), actively discouraged him. Han-joon said that "golf was a rich man's game played for fun, and that he had no business playing it because it couldn't help him earn a living", Yang recalled in an interview earlier this year. (See pictures of the worst fashions in golf...
...Yang was doing much more than that. He started practicing on his own during the evenings, and the game took hold of him. Even after his father forced him to quit and take a higher-paying construction job, Yang's interest in golf persisted, and he would practice without his father's knowledge. ("Who knows," Han-joon says now with a laugh, "maybe if I had encouraged him, he wouldn't have played.) Incredibly, he effectively taught himself how to master the notoriously difficult sport on Jeju's double-decked driving ranges, not taking formal lessons until he turned...
...critical stepping stone to the victory on Sunday. "He beat Tiger once. He knew he could beat Tiger again," Han-joon tells TIME. "But more importantly, he thought he had nothing to lose in a match against the world-famous Woods." (Watch a video of Tiger Woods playing Wii Golf...
...success is no fluke. Going head to head against the mighty Woods is "something I sort of visualized quite a few times, playing with him in the final round of a major championship," Yang said after his earth-shattering victory. "I always sort of dreamed about this." As golf fans around the world watched in disbelief as Yang hoisted his golf bag over his head in triumph, they could be forgiven for harboring similar dreams...