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Yang stuns Woods to win USPGA

Author: Lynda Collins
Date: 18/08/2009
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Yang Yong-Eun is Asia's first winner of a Major championship after he did what no man in history has managed and overhauled Tiger Woods to win the USPGA Championship.

There had been an air of inevitability about the expected result all week, with online betting favourite Woods leading after round one, holding a four-shot lead at the halfway stage and going into the final round two clear.

But Yang had other ideas and playing with Woods in the day's final pairing, he stunned the Hazeltine crowd by outscoring his illustrious rival by five shots to win moving away at eight-under-par.

The result ends Woods' remarkable record of having never been beaten in a Major when leading after 54 holes.

British duo Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy tied for third place at three-under-par.

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In the Premier League, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez launched a stinging attack on the match officials after seeing his side lose their opening game of the season 2-1 to Tottenham.

Benitez was outraged after referee Phil Dowd turned down two penalty appeals with his side trailing to goals from Benoit Assou-Ekotto and debutant Sebastien Bassong.

Assou-Ekotto appeared to block off Andriy Voronin and then handle the ball in the penalty area, but each time Dowd turned down the Reds' appeals.

Meanwhile, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted he has major defensive injury problems to contend with ahead of Wednesday's trip to Burnley.

United won Sunday's Premier League season opener 1-0 over Birmingham City despite being unable to call upon the services of Rio Ferdinand (thigh), Nemanja Vidic (calf), Gary Neville (groin) and Rafael (shoulder).

Jonny Evans limped off midway through the second half with a recurrence of an ankle problem and is doubtful for the champions' midweek trip to Turf Moor in a further concern for Ferguson.

United are already without first-choice goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar following summer hand surgery.

England have named uncapped batsman Joe Denly in their squad for the forthcoming limited-overs games against Australia and the ICC Champions Trophy.

The Kent opener is the only new face in the 15-man squad which has been named for seven NatWest ODIs against Australia and two Twenty20 internationals before the Champions Trophy in South Africa in September.

Essex batsman Ravi Bopara has been included in the squad despite his recent axing from the Test side for the fifth and final Ashes Test.

Elsewhere, Andrew Flintoff has also been included despite his struggles with a knee injury throughout the summer.

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