Norton, Mass. ? Vijay Singh leads the PGA Tour’s money list by an ever-widening margin. He is running away with the player of the year award.

And Sunday he moved within 18 holes of another big prize.

Singh shot 68 to widen his lead over Tiger Woods at the Deutsche Bank Championship, putting him one round from his sixth victory of the year and the No. 1 ranking in the world. At 14 under, Singh leads the top-ranked Woods by three strokes going into their head-to-head matchup today.

“I think it should be a lot of fun — a lot of fun — to go out and compete against Vijay,” Woods said. “I think it will just be a blast.”

Woods shot 69 to improve to 11 under and kept pace until Singh made birdie on 18 — after missing a 25-foot putt for eagle. Woods has eight career come-from behind wins, but none since 2001.

“It’s better to be three up than two up; that gives me even more of a cushion,” Singh said. “Every shot in front of Tiger is important.”

Singh and Woods were the only players to break 70 in every round, and just 12 players broke par on Sunday at the 7,415-yard, par-71 TPC of Boston; there were 88 rounds in the red for Rounds 1-2. That left them in the final group with daylight in front of third place Bill Haas, who fell toward the pack with bogeys on Nos. 13 and 14 that dropped him from 11 under to 9 under.

Shigeki Maruyama was 8 under after shooting par, and Jay Williamson and defending champion Adam Scott were another stroke back, seven behind Singh.

Vijay Singh drives off the second tee in the Deutsche Bank Championship. Singh shot a third-round 68 Sunday in Norton, Mass.

Singh has won the last eight tournaments he led going into the final round, including four this year.

He needs only to finish ahead of Woods to convince the computers what many humans have known for some time: He’s playing the best golf in the world. (The computers factor in performance over the past two years, taking the strength of field into account; Woods held a 12.09-11.91 lead heading into this week.)