As the U.S. economy fattened on the strength of an illusory real-estate boom, Woods was ascendant on the golf course and seemingly off of it too a fourth Masters in 2005, wins at the PGA Championship and the British Open in 2006, a fourth PGA Championship in 2007 and a third U.S. Open in 2008, plus a beautiful wife and a baby girl.
But Zhang is not the youngest golfer ever to play in one of the golf majors (the Masters, the U.S. and British Opens and the PGA Championship).
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The BMW International Open kicks off a series of lucrative events that includes the British Open, the PGA Championship and runs through the Ryder Cup 19-21 September.
However, Oosthuizen's stop-start career continued as he failed to play in a major after missing the cuts for the Masters, the British Open and the PGA Championship in 2009.
Padraig Harrington, who won two British Opens and a PGA Championship in 2007 and 2008 but was then given up for dead by many, seems to have found his form again.
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Joel Edwards shot a superb 65 to take his first PGA title at the Air Canada Championship in British Columbia, Canada.
The 2011 PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, his fellow American Jason Dufner and 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen are tied on level par.
He pulled out of the Honda Classic in March with pneumonia, but was ninth at the British Open and then claimed third place in this month's U.S. PGA Championship to move back up to 26th in the rankings.
British star Casey, who won the Matchplay in 2006, goes into the final round of the BMW PGA Championship with a three-shot lead over Dane Soren Kjeldsen.
The 2014 British Open will be played at Royal Liverpool (Hoylake), where Tiger won in 2006, and the 2014 PGA Championship will be played at Valhalla, where Tiger won in 2000.
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