From farmer's son to Asian golfing icon

JEJU, South Korea: Baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball. YE Yang played them all as a child.

Everything but golf, considered a sport of the elite, with green fees costing several hundred dollars a round.

So it wasn't until he was 19 that Yang, the son of vegetable farmers, picked up an iron at the country club where he took a low-paying job scooping up golf balls. Practising late into the night after patrons had gone, he soon became good enough to turn pro.