SILVIS (Illinois), Sept 15: Vijay Singh pulled away from the field with a six-under-par 65 to win the rain-delayed John Deere Classic on Monday.

The Fijian, who began the day tied with J.L. Lewis for the lead, birdied three of four holes beginning at the 14th and finished on 16-under 268 to claim his third victory of the PGA Tour season.

Singh was four shots ahead of second-placed Americans Chris Riley, Jonathan Byrd and Lewis.

As he did in the third round, Lewis could manage only a round of even-par 71 at the TPC at Deere Run.

Final round scores

268 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 66 68 69 65

272 Chris Riley 66 69 66 71, J.L. Lewis 65 65 71 71, Jonathan Byrd 65 67 72 68

273 Hidemichi Tanaka (Japan) 70 67 67 69, Kevin Sutherland 69 67 71 66, Paul Stankowski 70 65 68 70

274 Jerry Kelly 71 70 68 65, Notah Begay III 67 71 65 71

275 Glen Day 72 65 70 68, Bernhard Langer (Germany) 71 65 70 69

276 Tom Gillis 75 65 68 68, Joe Durant 70 68 68 70, Pat Perez 69 68 71 68

277 Mathias Gronberg (Sweden) 71 69 69 68, Carl Pettersson (Sweden) 71 70 73 63

278 Brent Schwarzrock 73 67 70 68, Aaron Barber 68 70 70 70, Scott McCarron 70 68 69 71, Billy Mayfair 67 71 69 71—Reuters