Carrie
09-07-2004, 10:59 AM
source:yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
Tue Sep 7, 8:57 AM ET
By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer
NORTON, Mass. - Vijay Singh has been playing the best golf in the world for a long time. Now he has Tiger Woods' No. 1 ranking to prove it. Singh finished his long climb to the top of golf's ultimate leaderboard by beating Woods in a head-to-head matchup, shooting a 69 on Monday to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by three strokes and claim Woods' spot as the top-ranked player in the world.
It was Singh's sixth victory of the year, enough to convince the computers that crunch the numbers what many have known for months.
"Finally it's turned into my favor," said Singh, who birdied three of the last four holes to win the $900,000 first prize. "I've worked pretty hard for this. I finally achieved what I wanted to do starting at the beginning of the year.
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Tue Sep 7, 8:57 AM ET
By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer
NORTON, Mass. - Vijay Singh has been playing the best golf in the world for a long time. Now he has Tiger Woods' No. 1 ranking to prove it. Singh finished his long climb to the top of golf's ultimate leaderboard by beating Woods in a head-to-head matchup, shooting a 69 on Monday to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by three strokes and claim Woods' spot as the top-ranked player in the world.
It was Singh's sixth victory of the year, enough to convince the computers that crunch the numbers what many have known for months.
"Finally it's turned into my favor," said Singh, who birdied three of the last four holes to win the $900,000 first prize. "I've worked pretty hard for this. I finally achieved what I wanted to do starting at the beginning of the year.
Full Story (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=552&ncid=755&e=13&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_sp_go_su/glf_deutsche_bank)