A truly dazzling closing 63 gave Tiger Woods an amazing fifth successive victory as he claimed the Deutsche Bank Championship.

Three behind Vijay Singh overnight, the world number one took the title in Boston by two from the Fijian and so continued his summer domination of the sport.

After missing the halfway cut at the US Open in his first appearance since the death of his father, Woods has followed a second place at the Western Open with wins in the Open, Buick Open, US PGA Championship, Bridgestone World Championship and now this.

The 30-year-old turned his three-shot deficit into a three-stroke lead by going to the turn in 30, grabbing eagles at the second and seventh and birdies on the third and fifth.

Singh, who had charged clear of the field with his US Tour best 61 in the third round, cut the gap back to two on the 12th and looked set to be only one behind when he almost pitched in at the 15th.

But Woods responded with a 14-footer for a matching birdie three and rolled home a 25-foot putt two holes later to kill off the challenge of the man who had taken the world number one spot off him by beating him head-to-head in this event two years ago.

It is the first time in his career Woods has won five straight tournaments, although from August 1999 to February 2000 he did capture six US Tour titles in a row. The record is the 11 of Byron Nelson in 1945.

"I just kept thinking that if Vijay shot something in the high 60s, I figured mid-60s would either get me in a play-off or win it,'' Woods said.

"And that was what I had in mind and I was able to actually go a little bit lower than that.''

Singh beat Woods in the same tournament in 2003 to interrupt Woods' reign as world number one.

Woods added: "Well, I hit it good today. I got off to a quick start. I didn't think I would get all of them back within the first three holes, but the par-five number playing downwind, with the length that Vijay and I both have - put the ball in the fairway and you can have an iron to the green.

"And he missed the fairway there and I made eagle there and just got all the momentum. I got back two shots instead of basically feeling all square.

"I made a nice putt at the third and then all of a sudden I had all the momentum on my side and just tried to continue doing what I was doing. Hitting the ball well and making some putts.''

Britain's Justin Rose, the halfway leader and joint second with Woods after 54 holes, bogeyed four of the first five holes, but rallied to finish in a tie for fourth.

Woods' next three appearances are all in Europe - the HSBC World Match Play at Wentworth next week, then the Ryder Cup and then the American Express World Championship at The Grove near Watford.

Collated final round scores and totals

(USA unless stated, par 71):

268 Tiger Woods 66 72 67 63

270 Vijay Singh (Fij) 70 71 61 68

276 Brian Bateman 69 71 70 66

277 Justin Rose (Eng) 67 69 69 72, Robert Allenby (Aus) 70 66 73 68

278 J J Henry 68 71 68 71

279 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 67 71 71 70, Steve Stricker 71 72 69 67, Shaun Micheel 69 70 68 72, Stephen Leaney (Aus) 70 71 69 69, Frank Lickliter II 71 72 69 67

280 Lucas Glover 70 73 69 68, Bubba Watson 73 67 70 70, Ryan Moore 70 71 68 71

281 Nathan Green (Aus) 67 74 70 70, Bill Haas 71 72 67 71, Joe Ogilvie 67 74 70 70

282 Matt Hansen 71 72 70 69, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 72 72 68 70, Steve Lowery 73 70 70 69, Charles Howell III 73 69 71 69

283 Billy Andrade 70 70 70 73, Kent Jones 69 76 67 71, Hunter Mahan 70 71 73 69, Paul Stankowski 70 71 72 70, Bill Glasson 70 70 71 72

284 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 71 72 73, Eric Axley 73 70 71 70, James Driscoll 69 75 71 69

285 Kenny Perry 69 71 71 74, Steve Flesch 72 73 69 71, Brandt Jobe 70 75 66 74, Olin Browne 69 69 73 74, Ian Leggatt (Can) 70 73 71 71, Briny Baird 75 69 70 71

286 Jose Coceres (Arg) 72 69 73 72, Harrison Frazar 72 71 73 70, Jonathan Byrd 72 72 70 72, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 71 72 72 71

287 John Rollins 70 73 70 74, David Branshaw 71 71 69 76, Jeff Overton 71 73 71 72, Ryan Hietala 73 70 71 73

288 Len Mattiace 70 69 71 78, Dan Forsman 76 68 70 74, Lee Janzen 71 74 73 70, Carlos Franco (Par) 72 68 75 73, Heath Slocum 74 70 72 72, Bob May 67 72 76 73

289 Tjaart Van der Walt (Rsa) 71 74 71 73, Adam Scott (Aus) 70 73 72 74, John Huston 72 71 71 75, Bo Van Pelt 70 74 72 73, Kevin Sutherland 70 73 72 74, John Riegger 73 70 73 73, Ronald Whittaker 70 75 73 71

290 Robert Garrigus 72 72 70 76, Sean O'Hair 72 71 74 73, Jeff Sluman 70 72 72 76, Jeff Brehaut 73 71 74 72

291 Michael Allen 68 73 76 74, John Senden (Aus) 73 72 70 76, Troy Matteson 70 73 72 76, Brent Geiberger 72 72 76 71, Nicholas Thompson 68 76 76 71

292 D.A. Points 71 74 70 77, Brian Gay 70 74 75 73, Camilo Villegas (Col) 72 69 76 75

293 Jonathan Kaye 70 74 72 77, Jay Delsing 72 73 77 71, Jason Bohn 72 72 73 76

294 Gabriel Hjertstedt (Swe) 72 70 79 73

295 Henrik Bjornstad (Nor) 69 75 75 76, Danny Ellis 74 70 75 76, Steve Jones 69 76 75 75

296 Ryan Palmer 69 76 79 72, Jason Schultz 71 74 74 77, Peter Lonard (Aus) 68 75 77 76, Jason Gore 68 77 78 73

297 Todd Hamilton 68 73 75 81