Tuesday 2nd September,2008
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NORTON—Vijay Singh made three long birdie putts and closed
with an eight-under 63 at the Deutsche Bank Championship for his
second straight victory and a huge lead in the US PGA Tour play-offs
yesterday.
T&T’s Stephen Ames shot a one-over 72 in the final round of the US$7 million Deutsche Bank Championship yesterday. The 44-year-old finished with an overall score of three-under 281. Singh, who won The Barclays last week in a three-man playoff, was one shot behind Mike Weir going to the back nine of the TPC Boston when he started holing just about everything from everywhere. He made consecutive putts of 35 feet and 60 feet to build a three-shot lead, then rolled in another putt from 35 feet on the 17th. That gave him his third victory in the past five weeks, and turned the FedEx Cup into a snoozer. Singh has such a large lead that he could clinch the US$10 million prize without even playing the season-ending US Tour Championship. Weir fell to 1-9 when he has had at least a share of the 54-hole lead. Singh finished at 22-under 262 to break the tournament record by two shots in the six-year event. And the $1.26 million for winning put him atop the US PGA Tour money list over Tiger Woods. |