Players all set to sing Vijay's praises

TWELVE months ago, Vijay Singh controversially lost out to Tiger Woods in the battle for the 2003 PGA Tour players’ player-of-the-year award.

Woods clinched the Jack Nicklaus trophy for an unprecedented fifth consecutive season, despite failing to capture a major for the first time since 1998.

Singh, the game’s hottest player over the previous three months with two wins and nothing worse than a tie for sixth in his last eight PGA Tour starts, had to settle for ending 2003 atop the US money list.