SportsNovember 4, 2002

ATLANTA -- Vijay Singh pulled away from the field with three straight birdies and closing with a 3-under 67 Sunday to win the season-ending Tour Championship. Singh finished at 12-under 268 for a two-stroke victory over Charles Howell III, who closed with a 66. Singh earned $900,000...

ATLANTA -- Vijay Singh pulled away from the field with three straight birdies and closing with a 3-under 67 Sunday to win the season-ending Tour Championship.

Singh finished at 12-under 268 for a two-stroke victory over Charles Howell III, who closed with a 66. Singh earned $900,000.

David Toms had a 67 to finish third at 273. The former PGA champion failed to win a tournament for the first time since 1998, although he still finished fourth on the money list.

World Ladies Match Play: Grace Park won the World Ladies Match Play Championship in Narita, Japan, beating Japan's Midori Yoneyama with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 22nd hole. Park earned $153,000.

Yoneyama, ranked 15th among the 16 Japan LPGA players who began play in the 32-woman field, blew a chance to end the match on the 20th hole when her 2-foot par slid by the hole.

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Southern Farm Bureau Classic: The final round of the Southern Farm Bureau Classic in Madison, Miss., was postponed because of rain and wind, with England's Luke Donald leading by a stroke. Play was to resume this morning.

Fifty-four players were on the soggy course when play was stopped after about an hour. Tournament officials waited about four hours before calling it a day.

Twenty-seven players, including the leaders, had yet to tee off on a day when temperatures dipped into the 40s.

Donald was at 15-under-par 201.

-- From wire reports

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