Singh back on top of world rankings

Vijay Singh took back the world number one spot from Tiger Woods by coming joint second with Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell in the Bay Hill Invitational in Florida.

American Ryder Cup player Kenny Perry won the event after Singh, having cancelled a three-stroke deficit with four holes to play, double-bogeyed the last.

But with Woods down in 23rd spot it is all change at the top of the rankings again only two weeks after Singh’s six-month reign was ended.

Perry won by two with a closing 70 for a 12-under-par total of 276.

Fijian Singh was round in 69, while just a week after Padraig Harrington’s first US Tour victory – after a play-off with Singh – McDowell gave his best-ever performance on the circuit thanks to a superb best-of-the-day 66.

And that should lift McDowell into the world’s top 50 and put him on course for a debut in the Masters at Augusta next month.

Compatriot Darren Clarke and Sergio Garcia shared eighth, while Ernie Els, winner of back-to-back titles on the European tour prior to the event, was alongside Woods on one under par.