Yardbarker: Vijay Singh

Couples, Singh out of Australian tournaments

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:48:04 -0500

Fred Couples is out of the Australian Open and Vijay Singh has withdrawn from the Australian PGA due to injuries, the Australasian PGA golf tour said Saturday. Couples was a late addition to the Dec. 3-6 Australian Open at New South Wales Golf Club in Sydney after tournament drawcard Greg Norman withdrew due to slower-than-expected recovery from shoulder surgery. Couples has now had to pull out with a lower back injury.

Couples, Singh withdraw from Australian tournaments

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:56:00 -0500

Fred Couples is out of the Australian Open and Vijay Singh has withdrawn from the Australian PGA due to injuries, the Australasian PGA golf tour said Saturday.

Best of the decade: The 10 best PGA players of the 2000s

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:04 -0500

With the decade of the 2000s almost over, we're running through the best of the last ten years in the world of golf. Today: the best PGA players of the last ten years. 1. Tiger Woods. You knew this. Your grandmother knew this. Tiger is in the conversation for best athletes of all time, not just best golfers of the decade. But, for the record and by the numbers, he had 56 PGA wins and 12 majors in the 2000s. Compare that with the players below for an idea of how dominant he's been. 2....

Singh will play in Australia for 1st time since 1998

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:29:21 -0500

Vijay Singh will return to Australia for the first time since the 1998 Presidents Cup when he plays in the Australian PGA from Dec. 10-13 with defending champion Geoff Ogilvy and John Daly. The Fiji-born Singh helped the International team beat the United States in the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne, but has not played in Australia since. "I have always intended to return to Australian shores and when I got the offer to play, I jumped at the chance," Singh said in a stateme...

Vijay Singh Offered to Pay $500K Toward Allen Stanford's Bail

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:10:00 -0500

by Ryan WilsonFiled under: PGAVijay Singh is currently at 3-under, T49 early in the third round at the Travelers Championship. And as has been the case since January, he's sporting a visor emblazoned with Stanford Financial, one of his sponsors. One problem: in February, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Stanford with defrauding its customers out of $7 billion, and last week chairman Allen Stanford and three of his colleagues were charged. Bail was set at $2 million and Singh...

Vijay Singh Stays Unusually Loyal

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:03:13 -0500

Allen Stanford is the financier and head of the Stanford Financial Group recently accused of bilking investors of over $7 billion in a ponzi scheme run from Antigua. How anyone did not see this coming is beyond me, but it's proof that the rich are just as stupid as the poor, just with sexier cars to crash when things go wrong. An Antiguan bank offered impossible returns? Give me 100,000 shares! Humphrey, what is that delicious smell? Natural gas? No, don't crack a window--it's del...

Golf’s Sponsorship Issues Not Limited To Singh

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:00:15 -0500

Yesterday we told you about Vijay Singh’s boneheaded refusal to remove the logos of financial fraudster and former sponsor Allen Stanford from his clothing, but Singh is not the only person having trouble finding new sponsorships in these tough economic times. (This is for you, golf.) The entire sport of golf is suffering, and nowhere is that [...]

Vijay Singh Remains Loyal To Disgraced Financier

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:30:01 -0500

Yesterday, disgraced former billionaire “Sir” Allen Stanford was arrested by the FBI in Virginia. The flamboyant financial honcho is accused of defrauding investors out of over $8 billion dollars. Before his financial house of cards collapsed, Stanford was famous in sports circles for being a major sponsor of teams and athletes, including Vijay Singh. As his [...]

Vijay Singh, skips water to make hole in one @ Masters, Video

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:43:00 -0500

Vijay Singh, skips water to make hole in one @ Masters, Video. What are going to do today? I am going to watch the Masters Tuesday practice round. I know this is a very important week, but what do you think is going to happen. Do you think Singh will skip a ball off the [...]

HHR Hugs it Out

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:32:40 -0500

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Vijay Singh's Masters Practice Round Hole-In-One

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:35:49 -0500

If you've ever washed down a pimento cheese sandwich with a cold beer on a golf course in Augusta you're probably aware of the 16th hole practice round tradition at the Masters where players skim the pond to the green. Well, yesterday Vijay Singh took that to a whole new level.

Singh to have knee surgery next week

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:26:46 -0500

Vijay Singh will miss at least the next five weeks as he is scheduled to undergo surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee next week.? As he noted in a blog post on PGATOUR.com, the reigning FedEx Cup champion had planned a three week break in his schedule after the Sony Open.? [...]

Vijay Singh Out Two Months With Forearm Injury

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:39:45 -0500

Vijay Singh, fresh off his FedEx Cup win, will be out two months with tendinitis in his forearm, an injury that will keep him out of two big Asian Tour tournaments. The 45-year-old won two of the four playoff tournaments this year, good enough to capture the $10 million prize that comes with the FedEx Cup, and now appears to have done so with an injury. I guess that all the rage in golf these days. Sure, winning tournaments is hard enough, but can you win one with an injury?

Singh wins again to take huge FedEx lead

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:04:39 -0500

Wasn’t the putter supposed to be the chink in Vijay Singh’s armor? Not Monday it wasn’t. Singh rolled in five birdie putts on TPC of Boston’s back nine, including ones of 25 and 60 feet, to take charge and dominate the PGA TOUR Deutsche Bank Championship. Singh finished with a stellar 63 and posted 22-under-par, five shots [...]