Yani Tseng

Yani Tseng is amongst the youngest female golfers in the world who has promising talent and she is proving it by her skills. This young gun started firing from the Kraft Nabisco championships which was held at Rancho Mirage. This was just a trigger that was pulled to announce the emergence of a young and competitive star in the golf field. The legends of golf believed that this small girl will conquer the field with her mesmerizing skills. Undoubtedly a star was born!

Yani Tseng was born on 23rd January 1989, in the city of Taiwan, where she began her golfing career at the age of 4 and was already considered the best among the amateur golfers. She was top ranked amateur golfer from 2004 to 2006 in which her best achievement was winning the US Women Amateur Public Links in 2004.

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Shawn Machel Johnson

Shawn Machel Johnson, an artistic gymnast from America, is the winner of a 2008 Olympic Gold medal, for balance beam event and also the winner of TV reality show called Dancing with the Stars in its 8th season. When she was 3 years old Shawn tried dancing, but she quickly found that dancing was not the perfect option for a person with great flexibility in movements. Shawn’s energy was immense and to match that, she gave a chance to gymnastics and joined Liang Chow’s gymnastic school in West Des Moines.

This energetic girl was born on 19th January 1992 in West Des Moines. Shawn qualified for the Junior International Elite status at the 2005 US Classic for the first time. She won the 2006 US Junior National All-Around Championships. She then went on to win the 2007 all-around World champion and also the US all-round champion in 2007 and 2008. She was a silver medalist in the 2008 Olympics for floor exercise and all-round.

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Rory McIlroy

Rory Mcllroy is one of the best golfers from Ireland, currently ranked 2th in the world. He was determined from his early ages that he wanted to become a golfer. It is said that Rory Mcllroy had hit a forty yard drive, when he was just at the age of 2 and put his very first hole at the tender age of nine.

Rory Mcllroy was born on 4th May 1989 in Hollywood, Northern Ireland. This golfer made his debut in a European Tour event when he had just completed his sixteenth birthday. He had to let the prize money go, due to his amateur status, when he won the Dubai Desert Classic in 2007.

As a teen Rory Mcllory set the European Tour alight by his par excellence. He gained his fan following in the Open Championship at Carnoustie where he finished 42nd and took the silver medal to complete the tournament, as the leading amateur. The amateur career of Rory Mcllory saw him conquer the entire Europe and Ireland making him the top ranked player in the World Amateur Rankings in 2007.

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