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Vijay's day? Determined Singh still searching for first win of '01
DULUTH, Ga. (Reuters) -- Vijay Singh is second in the race for the Vardon Trophy for low scoring average and has won more than $3 million on the 2001 U.S. Tour, but the Fijian is tired of falling just short of the winner's circle. Singh has posted eight top-five finishes and 12 top-10s but has yet to win on U.S. soil this year. The 1998 PGA champion, known for putting in prodigious amounts of practice time, said on Tuesday that he has worked even harder than usual to prepare for this year's U.S. PGA Championship, which starts Thursday at the Atlanta Athletic Club. "I would like to start my winning streak this year here, and I've prepared intensely for this," said Singh, who won the 1998 PGA at Sahalee and added another major title by winning the 1999 Masters. The fifth-ranked Singh, who won early this season on the European Tour in Malaysia and Singapore, said he played a round on the Highlands Course last Tuesday to get a feel for the layout, which he said should definitely favor the longer hitters such as himself. "I like the way I have been playing the last few weeks, but I don't like the way I have been finishing," he said. "I worked pretty hard last week. I saw the golf course and went back home and practiced what I needed to and came in here prepared. "This is a golf course where you cannot stray with anything, drivers or irons or even putting; you've got to be on the correct side of the hole. "I feel I'm coming here as an underdog, but I feel like the way I've been playing, I have a very, very good chance." Singh, 38, said he paid particular attention to his iron play. "It's not so much of a short-iron golf course anymore. It's more middle irons. The seven, six, five irons. All of the par-threes, unlike other tournaments, are pretty long here. Those are the clubs that I have really worked on." Singh added that he might need to make a mental adjustment in order to break through. "I went back and thought about what I needed to do to finish," Singh said about overcoming his recent penchant for near-misses. "Just don't make any mistakes coming down the stretch and be a bit more aggressive on the last day," said Singh in describing how he might author a perfect finish to add another PGA title.
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