Vijay Singh Wins on PGA Tour Champions With Help From Contender's Nightmarish Five-Putt

Vijay Singh captured his first PGA Tour Champions win in five years at the Ally Challenge on Sunday, but his victory can largely be attributed to the painful collapse of another contender, Paul Goydos. 

Singh, 60, was one stroke behind Goydos when he stepped onto the 18th tee at Warwick Hills, thinking he’d need some assistance from the leader to have a serious look at the win. 

Singh ultimately got that assist—and more. 

Goydos, who was playing one hole behind Singh, hit the par-3 17th green in regulation, and lagged an 18-foot putt to about three feet. But that’s when things took a turn for the worse for the two-time PGA Tour winner: Goydos needed four more putts to hole out on No. 17. 

He finished the hole with a five-putt and triple-bogey 6, blowing his one-shot lead completely. He finished the tournament tied for third place, three strokes behind Singh.

The video of Goydos's disaster on his penultimate hole is cringe-worthy, to say the least. 

The nightmare on Goydos's 17th hole unfolded while Singh was finishing up on the 18th, so when Singh walked off the course, he looked at the leaderboard in disbelief, attempting to figure out what could have happened. 

“Yeah, I left the 18th and I looked up at the scoreboard and I said, wow, what happened? He dumped a shot on 17, but then his name wasn't on at 14 or 13 under. I was surprised, I said something must have happened there. Once I got into the clubhouse, they said he had a disaster on 17,” Singh said. 

“You don't want to see anyone having a three-putt or a five-putt. I don't know how he did it, but unfortunate.” 

The Ally Challenge was the Fijian pro’s fifth victory on the PGA Tour Champions, but his first under such shocking circumstances.