Sorry, Raymond Floyd. Since building his house in Southampton after winning the 1986 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Floyd had the distinction of being the most famous professional golfer living in the Hamptons. He might have to step aside, at least for a younger generation, because now we can count three-time major winner Vijay Singh as a Hamptons resident. And what, you may ask, is his connection to Jerry Seinfeld?

Our newest East Hampton neighbor - Vijay Singh.

Well, now they are neighbors. Singh just bought a house on the section of Further Lane in East Hampton that includes not only Seinfeld but also the fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and Terry Semel, who is the chairman of Yahoo.

The house is a six-bedroom dwelling on just over two acres off a private lane. The 7,000 square-foot house backs up to Semel's eight and one-half acres spread, which so far remains vacant. The property has a pool and pool house, but incredibly no putting green (though I suspect that will change). The total tab for the Singh manse and grounds was a cool $9.5 million. Vijay should have had no problem "putting" that together: He was third on the money list of the just-concluded PGA Tour season with over $4.7 million, and with corporate outings and endorsements he made three or four times that.

Seinfeld created an entire baseball field in his back yard when he bought his East Hampton home from Billy Joel several years ago. Singh doesn't have enough room for a golf course, so we can assume he will join at least one of the clubs on the South Fork. It is unlikely that the ultra-exclusive Maidstone Club down the street would offer an invitation, and that is probably true also for National Golf Links in Southampton. My guess is he will go for the East Hampton Golf Club, which was designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, but if he doesn't mind the extra travel he might plunk down $500,000 for the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak.

As Vijay and his family - Ardena, his wife, and Qass, his son - gaze out at the ocean during the rest of 2007, no doubt he will reflect on two things. One is how far he has come - Singh was born and raised in Fiji and his father eked out a living as an airplane technician. Now the Singh family is living on one of the most expensive per-square-foot pieces of real estate in the world.

Singh will also reflect on this past season and what it foretells for the 2008 season. He could retire tomorrow and be considered one of the best players ever. He has 55 wins around the globe, 31 of them on the PGA Tour. His breakthrough in the majors was winning the PGA Championship in 1998. He won it again in 2004, and in between he won the Masters in 2000. He is the only player other than Tiger Woods in the last decade to lead the annual PGA Tour money list (okay, he did it just once). Include all his golf-related income and Singh has earned over $100 million in his career.

But Singh is not going to retire tomorrow. Instead, his goal continues to be to topple Tiger again as the #1 player in the world, a title he held for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. Being third on the money list would indicate that 2007 was a great year. It would be for anyone else, but not necessarily for Singh.

What has to be causing some concern is that he started off the year very well, winning two tourneys quickly, including the first one in Hawaii, but as the season went on he wasn't contending as often as he wanted to, and all four majors eluded him. No one questions his work ethic, of course, but it is very unusual for a player on the PGA Tour to be in the top 10 or even the top 20 when he hits age 45 (Mark Calcavecchia is an exception) - and that is the age Singh will turn in February.

Vijay - whose name means "victorious lion" - may well have another major victory in him, but it will be a truly inspirational scenario in 2008 if he manages a top-10 finish, let alone earnings right behind Woods and Phil Mickelson.

Well, sad to say, the '07 PGA Tour season ended two weeks ago at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, a very family-friendly event in Orlando that is sponsored by Disney. I was in Orlando that weekend. It was for a Marine Corps reunion and not the tournament, but I can tell you that the weather was gorgeous. Steven Ames took home the trophy and the $828,000 first-place check.

For all practical purposes, the season ended with Tiger Woods winning the FedEx Cup over a month ago and most of the top players went home. The tourneys in Oct. were not high-profile events, and the PGA Tour may want to consider how to fix the problem of a rather limp season-ending series.

The good news is that some players did well enough during the last five weeks to make some cash they couldn't make when Tiger, Phil, Vijay and others were dominating and kept a firm grasp on their tour cards for 2008. In the Children's Miracle event, big paychecks were earned by such popular players as Robert Gamez and Scott Verplank, who tied for second, Justin Leonard (tied for third), Stewart Cink (tied for sixth), and young Sean O'Hair, who tied for seventh.

Now the "silly season" begins, which has been an entire second career for Fred Couples. It's a pleasant distraction, especially for sports fans whose football teams are already not playoff-bound.