Speaking prior to the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon, 15-time Major champion Tiger Woods has revealed that the most crushing defeat of his playing career came in the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National, where South Korea’s Y.E Yang came from two shots behind to take the title from him by three strokes.
“The hardest loss to get over was the Y.E. Yang loss because I had the lead. I had never lost a major championship while leading. That was the first,” Woods said.
