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Exhausted Yang captured on Cink camera

Forty winks: British Open champion Stewart Cink captured PGA Champion Y.E. Yang asleep in the locker room at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday, and immediately sent the image worldwide on his Twitter page. Yang flew all day and night from South Korea to make it to Bermuda, arriving at 6.30 a.m. yesterday.
Y.E. Yang, you've been framed.Not one to miss an opportunity to show golf as it really is, British Open champion Stewart Cink captured the PGA Champion asleep in the locker room at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday, and immediately sent the image worldwide on his Twitter page.The Korean took advantage of a fold-out bed and yesterday's atrocious weather to catch up on some sleep after a nightmare journey that saw him only land in Bermuda at 6.30 yesterday morning.

Y.E. Yang, you've been framed.

Not one to miss an opportunity to show golf as it really is, British Open champion Stewart Cink captured the PGA Champion asleep in the locker room at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday, and immediately sent the image worldwide on his Twitter page.

The Korean took advantage of a fold-out bed and yesterday's atrocious weather to catch up on some sleep after a nightmare journey that saw him only land in Bermuda at 6.30 yesterday morning.

The incident added some light relief to a day that was otherwise ruined by some of the worst weather that Bermuda has experienced all year, and yesterday's Grand Slam Pro-Am was reduced to a nine-hole shoot-out by the thunderstorms that battered the Island.

"We started off at South Korea at 8 a.m. Bermuda time yesterday (Sunday), which is 8 p.m. local time," said Yang, speaking through translator Ryan Park.

"It was about a 16 hour flight to JFK, uneventful, we landed at 9 p.m. New York time, and we then went to get on to a charter plane.

"We left at about 11 p.m., and we were just escaping US airspace when the flight attendant informed us that the landing gear wouldn't retract. So we loitered in the Long Island area for a bit, landing an hour later at Islip, and then we were stranded there for about four hours while they were trying to get an alternate plane and crew ready.

"So we were supposed to land in Bermuda around 1.30 a.m., and ended up landing about 6.30ish. Immigration took a little longer than usual, so we checked into the hotel around 7.40 a.m, I signed some flags, and we came out to the course.

"I played a Sunday final round (in Korea) so I have been up for around 48 hours now."

Cink would not normally invade the privacy of the locker room in such fashion, but he felt it was too good an opportunity to miss.

"I thought this was just an opportunity I just couldn't pass up," said Cink. "When you only have four in the field, and one of them takes a nap, and there is a fold-out bed in the locker room, that's pretty impressive. And he slept with all the commotion going on as well.

"When the rain would come we would all rush back into the locker room, and there would be lots of noise, and he never moved.

"It was pretty impressive, but he had a long night. I was intentionally vague about it being a long night (on my Twitter page), most people will think that he was partying."

While Yang was sleeping, and the rest of the golfers were dodging the rain, Lucas Glover was doing what he normally does at a time like that, he was reading.

The US Open champion got through four books during his win at Bethpage in February, this time he only needs two.

"Four day trip, two books, I should be all right," he said. "I brought the new James Patterson, 'Alex Cross's Trial', and Clive Cussler's got a new one, 'Spartan Gold', so that'll be for the journey home."