Singh Is Part of Four-Way Tie

Vijay Singh says he thinks about winning the PGA Tour money title just about every minute that he’s not on the golf course.

When he walked off the 18th green Saturday in the Funai Classic at Disney, the goal never seemed more within his reach.

Singh was in a four-way tie for the lead.

Tiger Woods, whom he trails by $171,239, was nowhere to be found.

“You can’t ask for a better position,” said Singh, whose three-under-par 69 at Lake Buena Vista, Fla., left him tied for the lead with Scott Verplank, Stewart Cink and John Rollins at 18-under 198.

Woods stumbled on the back nine with three bogeys in four holes and shot 71, leaving him six shots behind in a tie for 14th place.

Adding to Singh’s advantage is that he plans to play next week in the $4.8-million Chrysler Championship at Tampa, Fla.; Woods is taking that week off. If everything goes well for Singh, he could clinch the money title before the season-ending Tour Championship.

The first step is to win for the fourth time this year, and there’s plenty of work left.

Adding to the drama across the street from the Magic Kingdom is that someone else atop the leaderboard has something riding on the final round.

Cink, who had a six-under 66, is No. 41 on the money list and is trying to get into the top 30 for the Tour Championship, at worst the top 40 to make it back to the Masters.

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Playing against men on the Korean tour, Se Ri Pak shot a three-under 69 to tie for 10th out of 63 entrants through three rounds of the SBS Super Tournament at Seoul.

Pak, the first woman in 58 years to make the two-round cut in a men’s golf tournament, shot a bogey-free third round and moved to one-under 215, seven strokes behind leader Chang Ik-je.

Pak is the first to make the cut since Babe Zaharias played in three PGA Tour events in 1945 and made the 36-hole cut in all.

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Jim Thorpe bogeyed the final hole but shot a two-under 70 to keep a three-stroke lead over Tom Jenkins through three rounds of the Champions Tour’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma, Calif.

Thorpe is at 16-under 200. Jenkins, who also had a 70, is at 13-under 203. Tom Watson also shot a 70 and is four strokes behind.

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Paul Casey took a four-stroke lead into the final round of the Telefonica Madrid Open after shooting an even-par 71. Casey is at 14-under 199.

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John Daly is skipping the year’s final two PGA Tour events to take care of personal issues, a top tour official said Saturday.

Chief of operations Henry Hughes and Bud Martin, Daly’s agent at SFX Sports, denied a report that Daly was barred from the tour until he seeks treatment for drinking.