Vijay the Victorious

Vijay Singh (-8), a winner a couple weeks ago at the World Golf Championships, defeated Sergio Garcia (-8) and Kevin Suthlerland (-8) in a playoff to take down the Barclays Championship for the fourth time in his career. With this win in the first round of the Fedex "playoffs," Singh has vaulted himself into first place in the Fedex Cup standings with Garcia and Sutherland behind him respectively.

On the first playoff hole Vijay and Garcia exchanged birdies, kicking Sutherland out of the playoff. Then on the second hole Garcia found trouble with his drive, while Vijay found the fairway and subsequently found the green on his next shot at the 577 par 5 seventeenth. Singh easily birdied the hole, and Garcia almost nearly holed a chip to tie, but it was not to be.

With this tournament out of the way, here is the new top 10 in the Fedex standings:

1. Vijay Singh
2. Sergio Garcia
3. Kevin Sutherland
4. Phil Mickelson
5. Justin Leonard
6. Anthony Kim
7. Kenny Perry
8. Ben Curtis
9. Stewart Cink
10.Jim Furyk

Not many big changes there beside Sutherland basically jumping into third from pure obscurity. Perry was second last week, and after a average effort is now down to seventh. Padraig Harrington, who has won the last two majors and one of my picks to win the Fedex Cup, decided he was mad cool this week and missed the cut dropping him to 23rd. And Tiger Woods, without taking one swing, is now in 15th.

We are now down to 120 players, and after this weeks tournament be down to 70. This week folks the greatest players in the world are coming up to Massachusetts, specifically Norton, Mass, to play in the Deutsche Bank Championship. Past winners include Vijay and Phil Mickelson, so expect them to play well.

In other news, eighteen year old Danny Lee won the prestigious United States Amateur Championship by beating Drew Kittleson 5 & 4 in 36 hole match play competition.


Lee also made the record books by being the youngest ever to win the event. The previous youngest? Tiger Woods.



So that is pretty awesome for Danny. Now Tiger won the event three times in a row, and I wonder if Danny is eager to match that or turn pro early to GET PAID. Time will tell, but winning the US Amateur is a big deal so look out for that name in the future.

On the Nationwide Tour Scott Piercy took down the pretty much irrelevant Northeast Pennsylvania Classic. Last week's winner Brendon de Jonge came in second two shots back. Piercy, along with the glamor of being champion, won $94,500. Vijay Singh for his victory? How about $1,260,000.

-The Diesel