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Sunday 12 November 2006European TourYear in Review
Yang wins HSBC Champions
Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, China (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 November 2006 · Y.E. Yang’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse US$5,000,000 USD · HSBC
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 38 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
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The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Tiger Woods USA · 276A third-round 73 in the wind left him too far back; closed with a 67 but finished two behind, ending his run of six straight stroke-play wins. Yang beats major champions and claims biggest career win - Golf Today (Asian Golf Today), 12 Nov 2006 (Wayback copy of dead page; cited by Wikipedia)
74 started, 74 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
DP World Tour event
HSBC Champions
Sheshan International Golf Club, Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, China
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Y.E. Yang
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
12 November 2006
First of all, I don't even know why I'm sitting here to be honest. It just feels so new right now.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
12 November 2006
If someone told me I was going to win this week, I just would have laughed and taken it as a joke
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
12 November 2006
Wasn't quite good enough. Yesterday killed me.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y.E. Yang | 66 · 72 · 67 · 69 | 274 | −14 |
| 2 | Tiger Woods | 72 · 64 · 73 · 67 | 276 | −12 |
| T3 | Retief Goosen | 68 · 67 · 69 · 73 | 277 | −11 |
| T3 | Michael Campbell | 66 · 70 · 77 · 64 | 277 | −11 |
| 5 | Marc Warren | 66 · 71 · 70 · 71 | 278 | |
| T6 | Robert Karlsson | 73 · 68 · 69 · 70 | 280 | |
| T6 | Padraig Harrington | 67 · 70 · 73 · 70 | 280 | −8 |
| T6 | Paul Casey | 73 · 68 · 68 · 71 | 280 | −8 |
| T9 | K.J. Choi | 68 · 72 · 71 · 70 | 281 | |
| T9 | Jim Furyk | 73 · 66 · 74 · 68 | 281 | −7 |
| T9 | Jyoti Randhawa | 65 · 69 · 72 · 75 | 281 | |
| T9 | Johan Edfors | 68 · 74 · 69 · 70 | 281 | |
| T9 | Francesco Molinari | 72 · 68 · 69 · 72 | 281 |
The golfer
born 1972-01-15, Seogwipo, Jeju-do, South Korea; KOR; turned pro 1996; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 0; world No. 77 that week (OWGR rankBefore (week 45, 2006) from OWGR player profile events table; Golf Today also calls him 'the 77th-ranked Yang'; age computed from Wikipedia birth date and event end date; majors 0 = his only major (2009 PGA) is later).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet