Singh on song

'Other golfers want to win. Tiger expects to win. And he doesn't accept second because second (stinks),' Earl Woods, Tiger's father, once said on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

How times change!

Just after he lost the top ranking, Tiger said, 'I've had a good run and (being number two) isn't too bad, is it?'

It is certainly no disgrace to see the hottest player on the tour, over the last 14 months, take the top spot.

Vijay Singh has won six PGA Tour titles this season, the biggest haul of his career. He has won ten titles since the start of last year.

His three-shot victory in the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston lifted his 2004 earnings above the $7 million mark.

Remarkably, that eclipsed his previous best -- $7,573,907 last year -- when he ended Woods' four-year reign as the PGA Tour's leading money winner.