Friday August 28, 2009
Yong-eun wins cheers and chat with ex-president Bush
JERSEY CITY (New Jersey): Yang Yong-eun has enjoyed a whirlwind week since his epic victory over Tiger Woods in the PGA Championship including a meeting with former president George W. Bush.
“It’s been a lot of international travel for a week. I can’t compare it to being up in cloud nine, but it feels like I’ve been jet-lagged for a week now,” Yong-eun told reporters on Wednesday after practising at Liberty National for the Barclays Classic which launches the FedExCup playoffs.
As well as the adulation and interview requests back home in South Korea, Yong-eun said a lot of people in Dallas, where he lives in the United States, had begun to recognise him.
Yong-eun, who was ranked 110th entering the PGA Championship, said he stopped by his clubmakers, TaylorMade, and was given a tour of the headquarters. When he went over to the production line, workers recognised him and started chanting, “Y.E., Y.E”.
“I felt like a rock star. And I thought that was a very eerie feeling, and it was great. But to top that off, they had a golf course right adjacent to that place, and I went over there and actually met George W. Bush,” he said.
“He came up to me very casually, like a next door neighbour, started talking with me. He talked about how he actually had a speech two weeks before that occasion where he went over to Jeju Island, my (South Korea) hometown, and gave a speech.
“So he talked about that, talked about what a coincidence it was, and he talked about how good friends and buddies that he was with Korea’s current president, Mr. Lee (Lee Myung-bak) and he talked about Mr. Lee’s humble past, etc.
“He introduced myself to a lot of his friends over there, including his golf coach, and took a lot of pictures. He asked me whether it was really nerve-racking to play with Tiger for 18 holes, especially on the 18th hole. He said it must have been less nerve-racking than his eight years in office.” — Reuters
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