South Korean Golfer Y.E. Yang

Steve Sailor notes that he beat a man "who is a quarter Chinese and a quarter Thai" — First full-blooded East Asian to win a major golf championship.

Mr. Sailor writes, "South Korean women, like Swedish women, have done very well in ladies' golf, but that's mostly because those two countries invested a lot in training girl golfers." I'm not sure about the money; my hypothesis was that Korean women have more free time to dabble in things like golf, given the twin facts that their fertility rates and workforce participation rates are the lowest in the world.

Mr. Sailer, suggests that "there's no particular pattern of any race being better or worse at golf." Rather, he says, "Success largely depends upon starting intensive practice at a young age."

Gi Korea explains that Yang was "[j]ust an average son of a farmer from the city of Seogwipo on Korea’s Cheju Island until he picked up a golf club at age 19" — Who Is Y.E. Yang? In fact, "he first picked up an iron at the country club where he had a low-wage job shagging golf balls" and "practiced late into the night after the paying customers had gone until he became good enough to turn pro."