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NORTON, Mass. _ Vijay Singh is threatening to make a runaway of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs.

After winning the first of the four-tournament series last week in New Jersey, Singh has gotten off to a flying start today in the opening round of the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC of Boston.

Singh, who won this tournmanet in 2004, just completed a round of 7-under 64 to grab the early lead. But he has plenty of competition. Ben Curtis and lefty Eric Axley are in with 65s and scores overall are extremely low. Singh came close to saying it is almost too easy.

``The golf course is in great shape, but the greens are soft,'' he said. ``They were much firmer yesterday in the pro-am than they were today, so they must have softened it up a little bit. The conditions are great. There's no wind and the pins are very fair. Besides one or two pins, the rest of them are very generous. That's why you're got a lot of guys shooting low numbers.''

The two Rhode Islanders in the field, Patrick Sheehan and Brett Quigley, both are among those off to good starts. Sheehan birdied the final hole to shoot 68. Quigley never made a bogey on the way to a 69.

Phil Mickelson is among the late starters. He has begun par, par, birdie.

 Tags  Brett Quigley Patrick Sheehan PGA Tour Vijay Singh

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