PGA Forget football; course is hot spot

The battle for No. 1 is between Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods.
NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Forget college football: The best battle for No. 1 might be taking place on a golf course outside of Boston.
Vijay Singh -- the No. 2 golfer in the world -- shot 63 on Saturday to move to 11 under and take the second-round lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship. With an eagle on the first hole sparking the best round of the tournament, he took the lead from top-ranked Tiger Woods with back-to-back-birdies on Nos. 12-13 and moved into position to take Woods' No. 1 ranking, too.
No big deal
"It's not going to affect me one way or another if I overtake him," said Singh, who has already won five times this year, including the PGA Championship. "Yeah, if I win this tournament, I'll be No. 1. Fine. But what would that change for me? I'm going to go out there next week and do it all over again."
Billy Haas and John Rollins were tied with Woods at 9-under, two strokes back, with Ryan Palmer and Shigeki Maruyama at 8-under on the par-71, 7,415-yard TPC of Boston course.
Woods has held the No. 1 ranking for a record 264 consecutive weeks. Singh would take it over if he finishes higher than Woods or, if Woods finishes lower than a tie for seventh, Singh would come out of the weekend No. 1 no matter what.
Playing as the unofficial host of a tournament that benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation, Woods shot 65 on Friday to share the first-round lead with Palmer. On Saturday, Woods was plodding along at even with 10 pars on the first 12 holes before he sank a nine-foot putt for birdie on No. 13.
Falls back
On the 15th, he chipped in from the left of the green to drop to 8 under. But he fell back a stroke on the par-3 16th when he hit a 6 iron from the tee about 15 feet off the green into the first cut; he used his putter to avoid a catastrophe, but needed three tries to get it into the hole.
Woods followed that with a pair of birdies, sinking a 58-foot putt on the 17th before finishing up with a 12-footer on the 18th.
"That was a little luck, wasn't it?" he said of the 17th hole. "I was just trying to two-putt and get out of there and try to go birdie 18. That was my mindset and I just happened to throw a depth charge up there and it went in."
Singh sank his second shot of the day, a 91-yard sand wedge from the fairway to improve to minus-5. He birdied No. 2, a 553-yard dogleg par-5, after putting his approach shot eight feet from the cup, and made some more shots from the fairway on Nos. 4 and 7.
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On the par-3 eighth hole, he three-putted from 28 feet to fall back to 7 under. His second shots on the 10th and 12th left him 15 footers for another pair of birdies; on No. 13, his approach put him three feet from a birdie that move him to 10 under, passing Woods, who was in the clubhouse at minus-9.
Singh chipped in from 30 feet on No. 16 to move to 11 under. He gave the stroke back on No. 17 but picked it up again on the final hole after missing an eagle putt from 18 feet.