Vijay Singh, of Fiji, celebrates his putt on the second playoff hole. Singh defeated Sergio Garcia to win The Barclays tournament on Sunday at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J.

Paramus, N.J. ? Vijay Singh ended up beating Sergio Garcia on a gopher hole.

Yes, a gopher. Or maybe a mole.

Singh won The Barclays for a record fourth time Sunday, matching Garcia’s long birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and finishing off his Spanish friend on the second extra hole after Garcia got a lucky break from the furry critter.

After Singh topped Garcia’s 27-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole – the 472-yard 18th – with a 26-footer, things got a little weird on the 577-yard, par-5 17th.

First, Garcia uncharacteristically hooked his drive into the left rough. Then, with Singh in the fairway, Garcia hit his second shot behind a huge tree in the right rough. Singh then hit a 267-yard approach onto the green, about 20 feet long and right.

“I got stymied behind the tree, and I got lucky because I got a drop because of some gopher holes or whatever it was,” Garcia said. “It wasn’t where my ball was, but like about five or six feet left. It was actually moving. You could see the grass going up and down. It was actually there, and we were trying to find it, but we couldn’t.”

Able to get a clear path to the green, Garcia advanced the ball near the front of the green about 30 feet from the hole and nearly holed his chip. Singh then rolled his 20-foot eagle putt within inches for a tap-in birdie.

“I wasn’t really concerned about him,” Singh said. “I just wanted to know why he got a drop; there was obviously a mole there, and he was burrowing at that moment, you could see him popping out.”

The 45-year-old Fijian closed with a 1-under 70 to match Garcia (70) and Kevin Sutherland (68) at 8-under 276 on the sun-baked Ridgewood Country Club course, the first-time site after 41 seasons at Westchester Country Club.