CLARIFICATION: The Tuesday, Nov. 2 edition of The Wire ran a release from the organizers of the LPGA Safeway Classic that stated it was the longest running event on the LPGA Tour. The Kraft Nabisco Championship actually is the longest running LPGA Tour event, having started in April, 1972.

The Golf Channel will air a 30-minute highlight special on the Turning Point Invitational held in August on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 11 p.m. ET. The event showcased Arnold Palmer's 1954 U.S. Amateur title and reunited numerous former U.S. Amateur champions.

Burton Golf introduces a new golf club and bag theft prevention system called Club-Lok.

Canadian designer Linda Hipp announces that her company has been recognized as one of British Columbia's 50 Fastest Growing Companies by Business in Vancouver.

On Wednesday, the PGA of America will announce the captain of the 2006 U. S. Ryder Cup team during a news and teleconference at 3 p.m. ET. Various news reports are tabbing Tom Lehman as the captain for the 36th matches.

Trilogy Golf Club in La Quinta, Calif., has been overseeded and manicured, and is ready to host the Merrill Lynch Skins Game on Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 27-28.

University of North Carolina head women¹s golf coach Sally Austin receives the LPGA Coach of the Year award for 2004.

The fact that Vijay Singh has become the PGA Tour's first $10 million man has sparked interest in where Singh's nine-victory season might rank compared to some other dominant seasons - particularly the 2000 season of Tiger Woods.

Why anyone would go there defies logic or demonstrates our unequivocally short attention spans.

Singh certainly has had a tremendous year, one that includes his third major title, the PGA Championship, his second straight money title, and his first Vardon Trophy for lowest adjusted stroke average. He also supplanted Woods as the No. 1 player in the Official World Golf Ranking. All this he's accomplished at the age of 41.

But even with a victory in this week's Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, which would give him just the fifth double-digit victory total in a season and the most since Sam Snead won 11 in 1950, Singh's grand season still doesn't surpass the 2000 campaign Woods assembled. Do not misconstrue; Singh has had a magnificent season. But when the question turns to comparisons, there's a clear delineation between Singh's 2004 record and the 2000 season of Woods.

First of all, throw out cash as a meaningful gauge. Singh with his appearance in Atlanta will have made 29 starts this year - nine more than Woods did in 2000. What's more inflation renders all monetary comparisons irrelevant anyway. Instead, focus on the quality of the wins and consistency of performance.

Singh won a major this year, his second PGA title, plus the Canadian Open and the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, but his other victories have come against fields void of many of the top-ranked players. In just three of his nine wins did Woods populate the same field.

Woods, meanwhile, won three majors in 2000, the most since Ben Hogan in 1953. Included were record margins of victory at the U.S. Open (by 15 strokes) and the British Open (by eight) and he posted record aggregate scores in the pair also. Later that year he added the Canadian Open for the so-called "Triple Crown" of golf. Of course, he did not miss a cut in 20 starts (Singh missed one this year), and he never finished outside the top 25. Most impressive of all, in each of those starts Woods completed 72 holes with an under par total.

Such consistency resulted in the other true measure that separates Woods from Singh. Woods finished the season with a 67.79 stroke average, an all-time record. That's more than a stroke lower than Singh's 68.83 average of '04.

Finally, Woods brought about a sea change in championship golf. In 2000 he not only redefined what was possible, but also what was necessary in terms of fitness, work ethic and mental toughness to compete at the high level at which he operates - the so-called raising of the bar.

Singh is to be congratulated for meeting that level. But he hasn't raised the bar higher - not yet anyway. But he's only 41; he has time.