SINGAPORE - Historic news is sometimes met in the most mundane of surroundings.
For Feng Shanshan, waiting in a US airport for her connecting flight to Florida on a Monday in November 2017, the flurry of messages on her phone was how she discovered she had achieved the impossible - the first Chinese golfer to become world No. 1.
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