VIJAY SINGH CHALKS

UP 30TH VICTORY

ON US PGA TOUR
Vijay Singh opened the US PGA Tour season by winning the Mercedes-Benz Championship and its $1,100,000 top prize by two strokes at Kapalua on Hawaii.

It was the 43-year-old Fijian's 30th win on the American tour and his 18th since he had his 40th birthday - that beats the over-40s' success record held by the late Sam Snead.
Vijay, pictured above, had rounds of 69, 69,70 and 70 for a 14-under-par total of 278 over the par-73 course.
Australian Adam Scott was runner-up on 280.
England's Luke Donald finished seventh on 285 and earned $193,000.
FINAL TOTALS (Par 292: 4 x 73)

Players from US unless stated.

278 Vijay Singh (Fij) 69 69 70 70.
280 Adam Scott (Aus) 73 69 69 69.
283 Trevor Immelman (SAf) 71 68 72 72
284 Will MacKenzie 69 70 73 72, J.B. Holmes 73 68 71 72, Davis Love III 70 71 75 68.
285 Luke Donald (Eng) 72 71 71 71.
286 J J Henry 74 73 68 71, KJ Choi (Kor) 69 77 71 69, David Toms 75 72 72 67.
287 Troy Matteson 73 70 70 74, Stephen Ames (Can) 69 74 74 70.
288 Rory Sabbatini (SAf) 71 78 68 71, Chris Couch 71 70 77 70, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 73 72 72 71.
289 Kirk Triplett 75 73 69 72, Joe Durant 73 73 72 71.
292 Jim Furyk 71 74 76 71.
293 Tim Herron 75 72 72 74, John Senden (Aus) 73 74 75 71, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 74 72 74 73.
294 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 74 80 71 69, Brett Wetterich 69 79 73 73, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 72 75 77 70.
295 John Rollins 77 74 70 74.
296 Eric Axley 78 75 74 69.
297 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 77 72 78 70.
301 Corey Pavin 75 75 74 77.
302 Dean Wilson 80 78 72 72.
303 Jeff Maggert 76 74 74 79.
305 Chad Campbell 77 75 78 75.
306 D.J. Trahan 79 77 75 75.
312 Ben Curtis 81 78 77 76.