Lake Buena Vista (Florida), Oct 28: Fiji's Vijay Singh won the Disney Classic by four strokes here Sunday, seizing the US PGA tour money lead from Tiger Woods and putting himself in position to clinch the crown next weekend.
Woods has won the money title the past four years and five of his six full tour seasons, but Singh has taken advantage of eight more starts than Woods to be in position to dethrone the world's top-ranked player.
Singh, who began the final round in a four-way share of the lead, fired a five-under par 67 to finish the four million-dollar event at 23-under 265. His 15th career victory and fourth of the year brought 720,000 dollars.
Woods charged back after an opening bogey with six birdies and an eagle to fire a 65 but settled for a share of second with fellow Americans Stewart Cink and Scott Verplank, who shared the lead but each mustered only a 71.
Singh has won 6,827,507 dollars this year to 6,577,413 dollars for Woods, who will sit out next week's 4.5 million-dollar event at Palm Harbor, Florida, to concentrate on the season-ending tour championship in two weeks at Houston.



By skipping next week, Woods gives Singh a chance to take the money crown by capturing the 864,000-dollar top prize. That way, even the tour championship's biggest paycheck, 1.08 million dollars, would leave Woods shy of Singh.



"I'm in the best position to win the money title," Singh said. "I'm playing one extra tournament. If I win next week, he can win the week after, he ain't going to beat me."


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