updated 4:40 p.m. ET Sept. 5, 2006

NORTON, Mass. - Tiger Woods needed only three holes to make it a fair fight.

Before long, it was no contest.

Woods made two eagles in his first seven holes to turn a rally into a rout, matching the best final round of his career with an 8-under 63 to win the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday and stretch his PGA Tour winning streak to five tournaments.

It was the first time Woods has won five straight times in one season, and his two-shot victory over Vijay Singh gave him seven titles in only 14 tournaments this year, a staggering victory rate of 50 percent.

About the only thing capable of stopping him right now is the schedule.

Woods is taking next week off.

“It’s nice when you get on a roll like this where things are just happening,” Woods said.

It all happened so quickly on Labor Day, where thousands of fans crammed behind the ropes to witness what was supposed to be a duel between Woods and Singh, who started the final round with a three-shot lead.

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Woods hit a towering 6-iron from 210 yards that carried a swamp and plopped down 10 feet away from the hole for eagle on the par-5 second. Then came a tee shot to 15 feet for birdie on the next hole to give him a share of the lead.

“I just had to run him down as fast as possible, try to at least get him by the time the front nine was over,” Woods said. “But I was able to do it within three holes.”

Two holes later, he raised the putter in his left hand toward the sunny skies as a 25-foot birdie fell to give him the lead. And his best golf was yet to come.

Singh was helpless, a feeling that is spreading quickly on the PGA Tour.

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He didn’t do himself any favors by missing four of the first six greens and settling for pars. But even after Singh made a spectacular play of his own, an 87-yard bunker shot on the par-5 seventh that spun back to 2 feet, Woods made a 10-foot eagle for a two-shot lead.

And after two more birdie putts on the back nine that crushed Singh’s spirits, Woods was hoisting yet another trophy.

“Tiger played unbelievable,” Singh said. “He made two eagles and just took it away.”

The streak started in July at the British Open, when Woods won for the first time since his father died in May. The tears flowed freely that afternoon in Hoylake as he coped with the realization that Earl Woods would never see him win another tournament.

The victories haven’t stopped.

There were four rounds of 66 at the Buick Open, followed by a putting exhibition at Medinah that carried him to a five-shot victory in the PGA Championship for his 12th career major. Then came his 11th title in the World Golf Championships at Firestone, winning a four-hole playoff against Stewart Cink.

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Trophies are coming in all shapes and sizes, and they are piling up quickly.

Byron Nelson won 11 straight tournaments in 1945, a streak regarded as one of the most untouchable in sports. Woods won four straight at the end of 1999 and his first two in 2000 for six in a row, tied with Ben Hogan in 1948 for the second-longest winning streak.

His next PGA Tour event will be the American Express Championship outside London the last week of September.

“You’ve got to have so many things go right,” Woods said. “In this day and age, with this competition, to win 11 in a row would be almost unheard of. What Byron accomplished, that goes down as one of the great years in the history of our sport. You’ve got to have one bad week somewhere. I guess his bad week was a win.”

Can the record be reached?

“If a lot of guys pull out,” Woods said with a laugh.

Woods now takes a week off before heading to England for the HSBC World Match Play Championship, followed by the Ryder Cup and the American Express, where he is the defending champion.

He still isn’t even halfway home to Nelson’s hallowed mark, but he surpassed Lord Byron in one category.

Woods won for the 53rd time in his career, moving into fifth place alone on the career list. He finished at 16-under 268 and earned $990,000, pushing his season total to over $8.6 million.

Brian Bateman closed with a 66 to finish third at 8-under 276, eight shots behind Woods.

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