Vijay Singh Out Two Months With Tendinitis in His Forearm

Vijay Singh will miss the next two months of golf with tendinitis in his left forearm. The 45-year-old recent winner of the FedEx Cup and three time winner on tour this year will be missing two big events in Asia that he usually plays, so that kinda sucks.

"I am very disappointed to miss the Iskandar Johor Open and the HSBC event as I was looking forward to returning to Asia," the 45-year-old Singh said in a news release issued by the Asian Tour on Tuesday.

I guess it would be a big deal to miss these, but the dude just made $10 million from winning the FedEx. Not like money is ever an option to guys like Vijay anymore, but I think it's a perfect time to just hang out and rest a little. If he wants, I'll take his invitations to those Asian tournaments. I heard Malaysia is beautiful this time of year.

One Tournament, Two Trophies, Ladies and Gents, the FedEx Cup!

The FedEx Cup concluded today and shockingly (!) Vijay Singh took home the crown while Camilo Villegas actually won the tournament that was going on.

Of the four playoff tournaments, Singh won two and Villegas won two but because Singh had more points heading into the playoffs he won the whole thing. Or something like that. Lets be honest, nobody really gets the point of the FedEx Cup and it hasn't really caught on like the PGA had hoped. I'm sure the players love the $10 million prize but the point of the playoffs is to get people excited for the end of the season and it hasn't exactly done such a thing.

Nonetheless, Villegas fired a sharp four-under 66 to get in a playoff with Sergio Garcia, defeating Serg with a par on the first playoff hole for his second win in a row.

Good job Camilo, nice job Vijay, boring job FedEx Cup. We're ready for a change!

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Vijay Outlasts Sergio at the Barclays

The up and down year continues for Vijay Singh, who birdied both playoff holes to take down Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland at the first even of the FedEx Cup playoffs today.

This is Singh's second victory in August, coming after two consecutive missed cuts at the PGA Championship and Wyndham Championship. Also, Vijay is now atop the FedEx Point list, nearly 5,000 points above Sergio after week one of the playoffs.

After covering Sergio's bananas 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole with a 25-footer of his own, Singh played the par-5 17th hole next about as textbook as you could, with a solid drive down the middle of the fairway and a second shot that appeared, from his expression, to be terrible but ended up 15-feet away for eagle. It was almost as if he was trying to trick us into believing he messed up.

Garcia snapped his drive into the trees, pushed his second shot behind the trunk of the tree and then after getting relief from what appeared to be a hole the devil comes in and out of, Sergio couldn't find the putting surface and just missed a chip-in for birdie.

Singh, who at 116th on tour this year in putting has had obvious problems with the flat-stick, rolled the eagle putt to the lip and tapped in for a nice, tidy birdie and the trophy.

When the parents are away the kids will play and it appears Singh likes Tiger not being in the picture. Stay tuned, this FedEx Cup might be worth it after all.

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Sergio's Putter Is Really Awesome

A bad putter will be a bad putter at the worst possible times, and that is what you just saw with Sergio Garcia.

He just keeps striping golf shots left and right around Oakland Hills, but that flat-stick is continuing to be his least favorite fan (And that is saying a lot).

On the 17th hole, sitting at even-par for the tournament and a shot back of J.B. Holmes, El Nino four-putted for a double-bogey. Sure, it wasn't as bad as Mr. Yips, Vijay Singh, five-putting his last hole today to miss the cut, but it was ugly.

This is why I might be in the group that says Garcia could never win a major. Sure he has a lot of talent, and sure he hits the ball as good as anyone on tour, but that four-putt right there will be in his cabeza for the rest of the week. I guess only time will let us know how he bounces back.

Vijay Singh's Putting Stroke Sure is Pure

If you didn't catch the Bridgestone Invitational yesterday at Firestone, you actually missed watching some of the top professional golfers on the planet choking harder than an infant throwing back a 20-ounce porterhouse.

Phil Mickelson was right in the mix, driving that car to the winner's circle until he bogeyed three of his last four holes, all sloppy, all ill-timed, all Mickelson-y.

Everyone's favorite Fijian golfer, Vijay Singh, decided that what Mickelson was doing looked fun, and after making four birdies in his six holes, bogeyed three coming in with a putter that looked shakier than an extra on "Turbulence" with Tourettes (sorry, I'm honing in on my inner-Rick Reilly this morning for some reason).

You know when athletes have quotes that are so deep, so meaningful you realize why they're pros and you're not? Well, this isn't one of those times.

"I was wondering if I tried to hit it as close as possible so I didn't leave myself a putt," Singh said.

Does any of that sentence make sense to you? I'm fairly confused at the point he was making, but I think he is saying that he thought he might wonder if he hit it close to the hole the putt would be as long?

Here, I'll make it a formula.

(Hitting ball far from hole) ~ + (hitting it close to the hole) * (pin) - (wind direction at the time) / (hitting ball and not ground) = birdie

Got it? Anyway, it was Singh's first WGC title of his career but I still can't consider him a favorite this week at Oakland Hills with that putter. It wasn't pretty, and that's saying a lot when talking about Veej.

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No More Michelle, Mickelson Making Mighty Moves

There are positives and negatives to being one of the top golfers in the world, and even though the bonuses obviously outweigh anything you or I could ever imagine, the one thing is you need to win to be successful.

Unlike Rocco Mediate at the U.S. Open or Michelle Wie trying to make the cut, guys like Vijay Singh need to win or the year is considered a failure. It's like trying to buy a drink for a girl only to realize not only does she not drink, but she's friends with your ex. Yikes.

Singh and Phil Mickelson are atop the leaderboard today at the Bridgestone Invitational after both shot four-under 66 on Friday.

Not like in an event with all these big names you'd have an unexpected winner take the trophy, but it's nice to see the only two golfers to ever challenge He Who Should Not Be Named in the last eight years are both going to play together today in hopes of securing a win and taking title of "Favorite at the PGA Championship" to Oakland Hills.

Oh, and Wie shot 80 yesterday. Sorry, had to get that in there somewhere. That is all about young Wie. I'll try to avoid posting about her for at least a week, like when you vow not to drink after a long weekend in Vegas.

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