AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) History is one of Guan Tianlang's favorite subjects in school.
As an amateur, Guan Tianlang isn't picking up any prize money or signing endorsement deals.
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old from China, went his second straight round without a birdie and had a 77.
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old amateur from China, shot 70 in his second tournament since making the cut at the Masters.
Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old sensation at last week's Masters, tees it up again Thursday at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
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China's teenage star Guan Tianlang battled his way to five-over par 77 to leave the 14-year-old amateur nine-over par for the tournament.
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China's teenage star Tianlang Guan battled his way to five-over par 77 to leave the 14-year-old amateur nine-over par for the tournament.
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The world of golf may have glimpsed its future Thursday in the form of Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Guangzhou, China.
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Earlier this month, 14-year-old Guan Tianlang of China used a belly putter to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur, thereby qualifying for the Masters.
There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut.
Woods's violation is all the more problematic because of his comments on the decision to penalize 14-year-old Guan Tianlang Friday one stroke for slow play.
Guan Tianlang had to sweat it out, but the 14-year-old from China became the youngest to ever make a cut in a PGA Tour event.
In many ways though, the day belonged to 14-year-old Guan Tianlang.
Tournament officials were ridiculed Friday for assessing a one-stroke slow play penalty upon a 14-year-old phenom from China, Guan Tianlang, on a day in which multiple groups slogged through the course for five hour rounds.
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Tianlang, who beat the previous record held by Italy's Matteo Manassero, who was nearly 17 when he set the previous mark in 2010, bogeyed his first but responded swiftly with a birdie at the third.
Meanwhile, Guan Tianlang's bid to make this year's British Open suffered a major setback as the 14-year-old Chinese golf prodigy fell seven shots off the lead after the first round of International Final qualifying Asia Thursday.
Two days after the fact, the media, both social and traditional, continue to percolate with speculation that other players wouldn't have received the same treatment, particularly after Augusta officials on Thursday took a harder line with the 14-year-old Chinese phenom Tianlang Guan.
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