Vijay's on top

of the world

Vijay Singh of Fiji holds up the winner’s trophy after his victory in the 80th PGA Championship at the Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Washington, on August 16.

Singh won with a 9-under-par 271, two strokes better that Steve Strieker, his co leader going into the final round. The win is Vijay Singh’s first major title victory and has drawn positive reactions from various people who described it as the best sport ing achievement by any Fiji Islander in sport. Fiji’s prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka said it was Fiji’s “proudest sporting achievement ever”. He said Singh had con quered the world and in doing so, had made all of Fiji proud. ■