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No sale. They are soft. #1 in the world is Vigay Signh (?sp). He's flabby.
Flabby is not a word that comes to mind with Vijay Singh. True, we probably won't be seeing him in an IM anytime soon but he isn't flabby. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=1761241 1. Always at work
Just because Vijay Singh has taken two weeks off, don't get the idea he is slacking off. Singh recently completed an addition to his home in Ponte Vedra Beach. It's a two-story workout facility, with a weight room downstairs and a cardiovascular area upstairs. "Pretty much all the equipment to carry me through until I'm 50,'' he said. Along with all the optional extras in exercise, Singh gives much of the credit to his trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, who is with him every step of the way -- and then some. "He the backbone. He's pushed me so hard the last two years,'' Singh said recently. "He's in the gym with me in the mornings and in the evenings, every day, two times a day, five or six days a week. When I go home, he's there at home doing the same thing.''
2. No. 1 but trying harder You won't find Vijay Singh resting on his new-found laurels -- this week or any week Thursday, September 23, 2004
By Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
FARMINGTON, Pa. -- At 6:40 a.m., Vijay Singh already was hard at work, swinging and sweating and going through the routine that has made him, at age 40, the No. 1 player in the world.
Singh was in the workout room early yesterday morning at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa, pumping free weights, gaining swing resistance from elastic bands and using his powerful frame to swing a 12-pound weighted bar as though it were a 60-degree sand wedge. He was doing this under the supervision of his trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, who periodically travels with Singh and, for this week, also will serve as his caddie.
Singh will repeat the same process today, right before he tees off as the most glamorous addition -- the new $66 million Falling Rock clubhouse and lodge notwithstanding -- to the 84 Lumber Classic of Pennsylvania. The player acknowledged among his peers as the hardest worker
at the golf course has now become one of the hardest workers
away from the golf course.
It's all part of the preparation that has allowed Singh to post the most spectacular year on the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods won nine times and more than $9.1 million in 2000.
"I probably do a lot more different work for golf in the gym now," Singh said. "I do more work in the gym to improve my golf swing -- let's put it this way, to strengthen my golf swing -- so I'm prepared when I come to a golf tournament. I don't want to come to a golf tournament and find out if I'm going to play well or not. I come here ready. That's what I do."
For the past two years, nobody has done it better.
Singh has won seven tournaments this season, including four of the past five he has entered, a Tiger-esque streak that has propelled him past Woods as the top-ranked player in the world. He is No. 1 on the money list with $8,699,566 and needs $488,756 to surpass Woods' record-setting earnings of $9,188,321 in 2000, something Singh could do with a victory at Mystic Rock.
What's more, he has won 11 times in the past two seasons, the most since Woods won 17 times in 1999 and 2000. Before that, the previous player to win more tournaments than Singh in a two-year period was Tom Watson, who won 12 times in 1979 and 1980.
"I'm enjoying the ride right now," Singh said. "I'm feeling really confident in my game. I'm really looking forward to going out there and performing well again."
Singh hasn't exactly been beating weak fields, either. In his past four victories, he beat John Daly by a stroke to win the Buick Open, won a three-hole playoff at the PGA Championship for his third major title, beat Woods in a head-to-head duel at the Deutsche Bank Championship and survived a playoff against Mike Weir to win the Canadian Open.
His victory in the Deutsche Bank Championship ended Woods' 256-week rein as the world's No. 1 player. Now Singh, a native of Fiji, wants to see how long he can stay there.
"I think it's hard to stay on top," Singh said. "It's not easy, but it's easier to get on top and the hardest thing is to stay up there. If I don't win golf tournaments, I'm going to get kicked off that spot. My wife asked me the other day -- what is your goal for next year? My goal is to go out there and win golf tournaments.
"It's a difficult task and I'm all up for it. I'm playing well and feeling good and I think I can win every time I tee it up. So if you have that kind of feeling, you should just go ahead and ride it."
The people who run the 84 Lumber Classic were salivating at the possibility of a showdown for No. 1 between Singh and Woods, something that appeared to be reality just two days ago. But Woods withdrew from the event, citing mental exhaustion, leaving Singh as the marquee player in an event that features 19 of the top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour.
Singh's participation in the tournament was ensured for at least the next couple of years after he signed a sponsorship deal yesterday with 84 Lumber Co. As part of the arrangement, he will wear the company's logo on the side of his visor and make personal appearances for the lumber retailer.
"I'm not really focusing on individual players," Singh said. "My goal is to go out there and try to play the best I can and see if I can win the golf tournament. I think that's everybody's goal. It doesn't matter who it is. I think once you move the focus away, you really just are dealing with something difficult. You're not going to focus on what you really want to do."
And nobody's been doing than better than Singh.