Singh singes field for second straight PGA victory

Singh was three strokes behind 54-hole leader Mike Weir (71) heading into the final round before blistering the par-71, 7,207-yard TPC Boston course to break by two shots the tournament record set by Adam Scott in 2003 and win for the third time in five weeks. Singh's $1.26 million first prize was enough to finally replace Woods atop the money list at over $6.4 million; Woods has not played since season-ending surgery after the U.S. Open.

After years of struggling with his putter, Singh had an epiphany while battling a short putt last month in Akron.

"I willed that ball to go in. I absolutely put all my energy into making that putt, and that's not the way to putt," he said. "You've got to just stand over a putt and feel good about it and stroke it, and I just did not feel that. It was one of the worst feelings over a putt. That's when I decided you've got to have an attitude change.

"Standing over putts this week is just night and day different. I feel just great."

A psychologist helped him change his attitude. "But it has to come from inside me, and that was the biggest thing," he said.

"I know it boils down to a great attitude change, a change in my head. My unconscious mind had a lot of stored-up bad thoughts in there, and that was the key, to get rid of all that."

Singh took the lead when Weir made double bogey on the ninth. Singh made an 8-foot birdie on the 11th to build his lead to two. The 35-footer on the 13th made it three-strokes, but then Singh pulled his 9-iron approach to the 14th, leaving him 60 feet away.

"I got on the green and just kept talking to my caddie, 'I'm the best putter in the world,' and he said, 'You're damn right you are, now go ahead and knock it in,' and I made it," Singh said. "That's just a good attitude. Instead of standing there and hoping you're going to get up-and-down in two, I was trying to make those putts."