Michael Yim, son of a Korean diplomat, was pondering the possibility that he might need to use the tools of his father’s profession to talk his suddenly very famous client out of an idea he’s in love with.

“I want to open an indoor driving range in Dallas, where I just moved with my family,” Y.E. Yang told me as we sat for an interview after he’d won the PGA Championship. “It would be like the ones we have back in Korea. Dallas gets so hot so this would be a good place.”

“Will you name the range, Y.E. Yang’s Indoor Driving Range, with small lettering underneath that reads, the Man Who Beat Tiger?” I asked.

His interpreter relayed the thought, and Yang broke into that big smile of his.

“I don’t think so,” Yang said politely. “I was thinking about a Korean word that means harmony.”

Yim, Yang’s agent, has other ideas but concedes that it is Yang’s money and naturally he can do what he wants with it.

Yang instantly becomes Asia’s biggest golf star with his triumph at Hazeltine National. Yim said the victory was one of the greatest achievements in Korean sports history. Others include: wrestler Jung-Mo Yeng winning the nation’s first gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal; Se Ri Pak taking the U.S. Women’s Open and the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in 1998; and South Korea beating Cuba to win the World Baseball Classic last year.

I inquired about the size of the windfall that should come to Yang.

“It’s so unfortunate. He won at such a bad time for the economy. The value of his win is way up here,” Yim said, holding his hand as high as he could above his head. “But the market is down here,” and now he bent over and put a hand near the ground. “The challenge for me is going to be to bring that market up to meet this incredible win.”

Yang is scheduled to take this coming week off. “It won’t really be a week off,” Yim said with a laugh. There will be a flood of media requests and possibly a trip to Carlsbad, Calif., for the TaylorMade National Sales Conference.

Yang will then play The Barclays outside New York, which like Los Angeles, has a large Korean population.

There’s also a verbal agreement between Yang’s camp and a Korean bank sponsoring a tournament in October back in his homeland.

“We may have some leverage,” Yim said with a wry grin.

Rich Lerner from the Golf Channel