Palm Harbor, Nov 05: The world number two Singh could have clinched the PGA Tour money title over Tiger Woods by winning this title but with earnings of $7,345,907, the Fijian has made it very difficult for the world number one to overtake him. In the upcoming Tour Championship, Woods must win and Singh finish fourth or worse. If Singh places no lower than a tie for third, the earnings title belongs to him no matter what Woods does. The Fijian has 17 top-10 finishes for the season, the most since Woods had the same number in 2000. In addition, Singh has placed either first or second in his last four tournaments and has finished no worse than eighth in 10 of his last 11 events. The 40-year-old Singh said he was looking forward to battling Woods for the money title, and possibly player of the year honours, on Thursday.
Baird, 35th in money when this tournament began, moved into the top-30 money winners with his $326,400 payday and earned a trip to Houston for the Tour Championship. Rocco Mediate dropped back to number 31.


Leading final round scores from the Chrysler Championship at the par-71, 7,230-yard Westin Innisbrook Golf Resort Copperhead Course on Sunday (U.S. unless stated): 272 Retief Goosen (South Africa) 69 66 67 70 275 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 70 70 65 70 276 Briny Baird 72 66 66 72 278 Chad Campbell 68 69 72 69, Tim Petrovic 71 69 66 72 279 Davis Love III 69 72 72 66, Dan Forsman 67 75 69 68, Thomas Levet (France) 71 67 71 70 280 Stephen Ames (Trinidad & Tobago) 74 67 72 67, Peter Lonard (Australia) 71 71 70 68, Brad Faxon 72 71 68 69, Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 71 71 68 70 281 Mike Weir (Canada) 71 73 70 67, Jonathan Byrd 72 67 72 70, Justin Leonard 74 71 66 70, Jeff Sluman 71 70 68 72 283 Duffy Waldorf 69 73 70 71, Tom Byrum 70 71 71 71, Robert Gamez 68 71 74 69, Kenny Perry 73 69 70 71, Pat Perez 70 70 70 73, Loren Roberts 71 69 68 75, Jose Coceres (Argentina) 68 68 72 75


Other international players: 284 Jesper Parnevik (Sweden) 74 69 70 71, Kenichi Kuboya (Japan) 73 69 69 73 285 Ernie Els (South Africa) 70 74 70 71 286 Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 71 71 70 74, K.J. Choi (South Korea) 71 74 71 70 288 Glen Hnatiuk (Canada) 74 68 72 74 290 Luke Donald (Britain) 76 69 72 73 291 Brenden Pappas (South Africa) 73 72 73 73 292 Bernhard Langer (Germany) 71 74 73 74 299 Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 74 71 79 75


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