Singh tops Garcia in playoff for Barclays title
Vijay Singh won The Barclays for a record fourth time Sunday, matching Sergio Garcia with a long birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and finishing off the Spaniard with another birdie on the second extra hole.
The 45-year-old Fijian closed with a 1-under 70 to match Garcia (70) and Kevin Sutherland (68) at 8-under 276 on the sun-baked Ridgewood Country Club course in Paramus, N.J., the first-time site after 41 seasons at Westchester Country Club.
Singh, the 1993, 1995 and 2006 winner at Westchester, earned 11,000 FedEx Cup points in the playoff opener to take the lead with 109,500 points - 5,125 ahead of second-place Garcia. The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner three weeks ago at Firestone, Singh also earned $1.26 million for his 33rd PGA Tour victory.
"He's a good friend of mine," Singh said. "It's hard to see your friend not win, especially if he's playing against you, but somebody has to win."
Garcia and Singh made long birdie putts on the first extra hole, the 472-yard 18th framed by a canyon of trees, with Garcia rolling a 27-footer and Singh matching him moments later from 26 feet. After driving into the right rough, Sutherland was on the back fringe in three when Garcia and Singh made their birdie putts.
Garcia and Singh then moved to the 577-yard, par-5 17th, where Singh rolled a 20-foot eagle putt within inches for a tap-in birdie.
Third-round leader Kevin Streelman (72), Ben Curtis (68) and Mathew Goggin (67) tied for fourth at 7 under.
Safeway Classic: Cristie Kerr sank a 15-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole, defeating Helen Alfredsson and Sophie Gustafson to win the Safeway Classic at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Ore. Kerr, Alfredsson and Gustafson finished 54 regulation holes at 13-under par 203. Alfredsson and Gustafson missed slightly longer birdie putts during the playoff before Kerr made hers.
Boeing Classic: Tom Kite surged past Scott Simpson with 3 birdies in four holes on the back nine and finished at 14-under to win his second Boeing Classic title at Snoqualmie, Wash. It's the first victory for Kite since winning the 2006 Boeing Classic in a playoff over Keith Fergus, and the 10th Champions Tour title in his career. Kite was able to avoid a playoff this time by sinking 3 birdies inside 10 feet on the backside, then capped his 6-under round of 66 with a birdie on the 18th, finishing 2 shots ahead of playing partner Simpson.
U.S. Amateur: Danny Lee became the U.S. Amateur's youngest champion, supplanting Tiger Woods by holding off Drew Kittleson 5 and 4 at Pinehurst, N.C. The 18-year, 1-month-old Lee frittered away most of a six-hole lead before regaining control with consecutive birdies midway through his second trip around Pinehurst's No. 2 course. Lee is six months and 29 days younger than Woods was when he won the first of his three Amateurs in 1994.
KLM Open: Darren Clarke claimed his second victory of the season, shooting a 4-under 66 to win the European Tour's KLM Open by 4 strokes over Paul McGinley at Zandvoort, Netherlands. Clarke finished at 16-under 264. McGinley shot a 64.