Orlando, Oct 13: World number one Tiger Woods will not add any events to his schedule in the final month of the US PGA tour season in his bid to hold off Fiji's Vijay Singh for the 2003 money crown.
Woods, speaking at an event for a corporate auto sponsor here yesterday, said he will not try to match Singh's closing run of playing in three of the final four tournaments of the season.
Seeking a fifth consecutive money crown, Woods has won 6,278,746 dollars in 16 events to lead Singh by 171,239 dollars.
Singh has committed to play here in next week's Walt Disney World Classic and in two weeks near Tampa. He will finish with 27 appearances after next month's tour championship, a showdown of the 30 top money winners in Houston.
Woods will play only here at Disney, where he is a two-time champion, and at the tour championship, giving him just 18 US PGA money events for 2003.



"He's had a lot more at-bats period than I have," said Woods, using a baseball analogy. "That's fine if he wants to do it that way. I just go ahead and try to play well and win events, so it should take care of itself."



Woods decided to skip the Palm Harbor event, sponsored by a car company that is a rival of his auto sponsor, where Singh will play starting October 23.


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