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Post by cjeagle on Aug 22, 2015 5:11:09 GMT 8
Just wanted to give my congratulations to Fil Australian Jason Day for winning his first major, the US PGA Championship last weekend in record breaking fashion at 20 under par. The guy had a tough luck story with his Australian father dying when he was 12 y/o and his Filipina mother had to mortgage their house, borrow money and took multiple jobs so he can send him to an Australian boarding school to hone his golf skills. All the hard work finally paid off with some touting him as the next Tiger Woods. He is a rare commodity in golf as most elite golfers come from upper or middle class backgrounds while he came from the lower class.
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Post by cjeagle on Sept 21, 2015 12:33:07 GMT 8
Congratulations again to Filipino Australian Jason Day for winning his 7th US PGA tour victory and for taking over the world #1 Golf ranking. Nice to see him live while he was winning the BMW championship earlier today here in the Chicago suburbs. www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/other-sports/106577-jason-day-top-rankingFil-Aussie golfer Jason Day earns world number one ranking Jason Day claimed his seventh USPGA Tour victory on Sunday to take over the world number one ranking
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Post by cjeagle on Jun 13, 2021 3:20:56 GMT 8
Philippine teenager Yuka Saso birdied the third playoff hole to beat Japan's Nasa Hataoka and win the 76th US Women's Open at Olympic Club on Sunday (Jun 6).
Saso matched South Korean Park In-bee as the youngest winners in the championship's history at 19 years, 11 months and 17 days, and earned her LPGA tour membership.
Saso is the first Filipino player to win a major golf tournament.
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Post by cjeagle on Jun 13, 2021 3:35:48 GMT 8
Double Asian Games gold medallist in 2018 now expected to be at Tokyo 2020 Olympics this summer
Saso won double gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, taking the individual gold – a first for the Philippines – and then another in the team event with Bianca Pagdanganan and Lois Kaye Go.
“My dream was to be World No 1 and win a US Women’s Open,” she said. “But I wasn’t thinking that I would really hold this trophy this week.”
In winning, Saso became the first male or female from the Philippines to win a major championship on either the PGA or LPGA Tours.
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