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Vijay Singh
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Vijay Singh was born in Yalalevu, Ba, Fiji and was the eldest of 14 children. He came from a prominent Arya Samaj family in Ba. He attended the local Arya Samaj school for primary education and obtained his secondary education at Marist Brothers High School in Suva. With no tertiary education available in Fiji, and not able to afford to travel overseas for further education, he took up employment in his uncle's accountancy and import business. Seeing his determination to pursue further studies, his uncle offered to finance him to study law. He began legal studies at Lincoln's Inn in London in 1951.
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Vijay Singh is a resident of Ponte Verda Beach in Florida. His father, Mohan Singh was an airplane mechanic and golf instructor. He was a great admirer of Tom Weiskofp’s swing and grew up modeling his own swing after him. Singh is well known for his preparations and the meticulous details that he adheres to. He often comes to the range early and leaves it late to work on his game. Singh is a family man with wife, Ardena Seth and their son Qass Seth.
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Vijay Singh—his first name means “victory” in the Hindi language—was born in the Fiji Islands to Indian parents. He grew up in the town of Nadi and was taught to play golf by his father, an airplane mechanic and part-time golf instructor. In 1982, at the age of 18, Singh became a professional player. He won his first tournament two years later. In 1985 Singh was barred from the Asian Tour after he allegedly altered his scorecard at the Indonesian Open, a charge he denied.
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Vijay Singh enjoyed a quite phenomenal year in 2004, winning nine times and collecting a third major title at the USPGA at Whistling Straits. The Fijian has shown no signs of taking his foot off the gas either after securing another three titles in the first half of the year and displaying a quite amazing amount of consistency week-in and week-out. By his standards, his recent record in the US Open is no more than fair but a return to the venue of his best finish in the event could see a sudden upturn in his fortunes.
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Vijay Singh was first elected into the Legislative Council as an independent candidate in 1959. In 1965, together with Ratu Kamisese Mara, and other organisations opposed to the Federation Party, he was involved in the formation of Fiji's first multi-racial political party, the Alliance Party. He joined the Alliance Party independently of Ayodhya Prasad's National Congress of Fiji and worked himself to a position of influence within the Party by taking up the posts of Treasurer and Publicity Manager. When the Congress was wound up in 1967, its members joined the Indian division of the Alliance Party, the Indian Alliance, with Vijay R. Singh as President. In the 1966 election, he was elected to the Legislative Council from the East-Central cross-voting seat which covered Vanua Levu and Lau. The Federation Party had no hope of winning the seat and to confuse voters selected another Vijay Singh.
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While in Labasa, Vijay Singh became involved in cane farmers unions and was the President of the Labasa Kisan Sangh. He was ... a key player in the formation of the Federation of Cane Growers (an umbrella organisation of various sugar cane unions to negotiate with the CSR) and the subsequent negotiations that took place with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company regarding the 1960 sugar cane contract. He, together with Ayodhya Prasad, of the Viti Levu-based Kisan Sangh, signed the 1960 cane contract in defiance of the majority of the Federation of Cane Growers. He later became the President of a united Kisan Sangh and held this office until the mid 1990s. He was an active leader of the joint committee of all sugar cane growers associations, established to restructure the sugar industry and when the Sugar Cane Growers Council was established in 1985, he was selected as its first Chief Executive. He alo became a director of the Fiji Sugar Marketing Company, thus providing sugar cane farmers a direct say in how Fiji's sugar was marketed.
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