5. 2009 PGA Championship
Hazeltine Golf Club
Chaska, Minnesota
South Korea’s Y.E. Yang pulled off one of the biggest upsets in sports.
Woods held a two-stroke lead going into the final round of the PGA at Hazeltine. He was 14-for-14 in majors and 36-1 overall when leading after 54 holes. He was The Terminator. He was more of a sure thing than New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera.
Yang had one PGA Tour title to his credit while Woods entered having won back-to-back tournaments, and led wire-to-wire through the first three rounds. But Yang chipped in for eagle at 14 and delivered the knockout punch with a 3-hybrid over a tree from 206 yards at 18. Woods would have to wait nearly another decade to eventually win his 15th major as Yang captured his one and only major.
“Everyone calls him the Buster Douglas of the PGA Tour because we took down Mike Tyson,” said A.J. Montecinos, Yang’s caddie. “It gave everyone else confidence that it could be done.”