{"id":792,"date":"2004-12-07T02:19:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=792"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:16:25","slug":"singh_caps_stel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/singh_caps_stel\/","title":{"rendered":"Singh caps stellar year with tour&rsquo;s top honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.golfserv.com\/gdc\/news\/article.asp?id=29417\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/singhWoods235x250.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Vijay Singh won his first PGA Tour Player of the Year award on Monday, icing\na season that saw the 41-year-old golfer capture nine titles and a record-breaking\n$10.9 million in prize money.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Fijian national ends Tiger Woods&rsquo; five-year reign over the title, and is\n the first non-American to win the award in nearly a decade. Singh came ever-so-close\nto winning it last year, and felt he was more deserving of the honor,\nwhich is voted on by fellow tour players.<\/p>\n\n<p>He rededicated himself to surpassing Woods atop the world rankings, and accomplished\nthe goal in roughly half the expected time. The new focus supplemented a near-legendary\nwork ethic and training regimen that once included hitting 1,000 balls a day.<\/p>\n\n<p>So will winning the award invite complacency? Not a chance.<\/p>\n\n<p>Singh told the Associated Press that he already has started a new workout\nprogram, &#8220;to take it a little higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>AP\/Yahoo!: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.golfserv.com\/gdc\/news\/article.asp?id=29417\" target=\"new\">Singh wins PGA Tour Player of the Year award<\/a><br>\nSepia Mutiny: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000351.html\">Asians remain dominant in golf<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Singh won his first PGA Tour Player of the Year award on Monday, icing a season that saw the 41-year-old golfer capture nine titles and a record-breaking $10.9 million in prize money. The Fijian national ends Tiger Woods&rsquo; five-year &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/singh_caps_stel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}