Singh eyes world number one spot

World number two Vijay Singh leads Tiger Woods by three shots at the end of the third round of the USPGA Tour Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC of Boston.

A victory for Singh could have him overtake Tiger Woods and become the new world number one.

Collated third round scores (USA unless stated, par 71):

199 Vijay Singh (Fij) 68 63 68

202 Tiger Woods 65 68 69

204 Bill null Haas 69 64 71

205 Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 68 66 71

206 Jay Williamson 68 68 70, Adam Scott (Aus) 69 67 70

207 Hank Kuehne 68 68 71, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 68 69 70

208 John Rollins 67 66 75, Ryan Palmer 65 69 74

209 Camilo Villegas (Col) 69 68 72, Tim Petrovic 70 68 71, Jonathan Byrd 66 71 72, Skip Kendall 69 69 71, Brad Faxon 72 69 68, Dan Forsman 68 72 69, Deane Pappas (Rsa) 67 70 72

210 Dennis Paulson 69 70 71, Dean Wilson 71 71 68, Arron Oberholser 70 69 71

211 Frank Lickliter II 68 67 76, Charles Howell III 67 68 76, Zach null Johnson 68 72 71, Neal Lancaster 72 69 70

212 David Peoples 73 66 73, Brent Geiberger 72 70 70, David Duval 72 70 70, Richard S Johnson (Swe) 70 69 73, Mark Hensby (Aus) 69 70 73, Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 68 70 74, Tim Clark 70 67 75, Hunter Mahan 72 69 71, Craig Perks (Nzl) 67 71 74, Matt Kuchar 69 73 70, Robert Damron 69 72 71, Todd Fischer 72 67 73

213 David Toms 69 71 73, Kent Jones 71 68 74, Cameron Beckman 66 71 76, Lee Janzen 70 69 74

214 Bob Burns 71 66 77, John Daly 71 70 73, Dan Briggs 68 73 73, Steve Pate 71 71 72, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 70 71 73, Hidemichi Tanaka (Jpn) 70 72 72, Mark Wilson 73 68 73, Ken Green 72 68 74, Danny Ellis 72 68 74

215 Joey Sindelar 72 69 74, Jason Bohn 72 70 73, Jason Dufner 71 69 75, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 70 74, Jeff Sluman 70 68 77, Harrison Frazar 70 71 74

216 Robert Gamez 71 71 74, Jim Furyk 69 70 77, Justin Rose (Eng) 72 70 74, Ben Crane 69 72 75, J J Henry 70 71 75, Billy Mayfair 67 72 77, Mike Heinen 72 70 74, Guy Boros 72 70 74, Brian Kortan 72 70 74

217 Briny Baird 72 69 76, Jeff Brehaut 71 68 78

218 Michael Allen (Irl) 72 69 77

219 John Senden (Aus) 71 69 79

220 Pat Bates 70 72 78

222 Mark O’Meara 66 74 82