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Mar. 20, 2008

The FedExCup points leader is secure this week, but the rest of the top 30 is likely to see some changes. Fifteen of the top 16 players in the FedExCup points standings are in the field, and there are only about 1,600 points separating Justin Leonard in fourth and Luke Donald in 16th. Getting into the top five would be significant, since everyone in the top five at this point last year made it through to THE TOUR Championship.

CA Player FEC Rank Pts. thru 11 With a win Poss Rank
Tiger Woods 1 13,725 18,450 1
Phil Mickelson 2 8,553 13,278 2
K.J. Choi 3 6,637 11,362 2
Justin Leonard 4 6,016 10,741 2
Sean O'Hair 5 5,981 10,706 2
J.B. Holmes 6 5,904 10,629 2
Stewart Cink 7 5,867 10,592 2
Vijay Singh 8 5,847 10,572 2
Ryuji Imada 9 5,448 10,173 2
Steve Stricker 10 5,222 9,947 2
D.J. Trahan 11 5,003 9,728 2
Daniel Chopra 12 4,911 9,636 2
Rory Sabbatini 13 4,839 9,564 2
Ernie Els 15 4,586 9,311 2
Luke Donald 16 4,412 9,137 2

Led by Tiger Woods, several players who had good seasons last year are doing even better this year. Here are the players in the field who were top 50 seeds last year and so far this year, and are at least 1,000 points ahead of last year's pace:

CA Player FEC Rank Pts thru 11 '07 Seed '07 Points '07 Pts thru 11 (%) Diff at 11
Tiger Woods 1 13,725 1 30,574 5,319 17% 8,406
Stewart Cink 7 5,867 28 7,080 1,383 20% 4,484
K.J. Choi 3 6,637 5 15,485 3,115 20% 3,522
Rory Sabbatini 13 4,839 6 13,548 1,571 12% 3,268
Steve Stricker 10 5,222 12 10,621 2,052 19% 3,170
Stuart Appleby 19 3,608 30 6,799 687 10% 2,921
Ernie Els 15 4,586 19 8,980 1,723 19% 2,863
Hunter Mahan 29 2,561 15 10,185 573 6% 1,988
Woody Austin 45 1,960 14 10,483 395 4% 1,565

Several players in the field who were top-70 seeds last year scored more than 25 percent of their 2007 Regular Season points in World Golf Championships events. Geoff Ogilvy, the 24 seed, scored nearly half of his total Regular Season points with a second, a T3 and a T6 in Accenture, CA and Bridgestone, respectively. Justin Rose had more than 1/3 of his points from a T5 at Accenture and a T2 at Bridgestone last year. He did not play in the CA Championship in 2007.

CA Player FEC Rank Pts thru 11 '07 Seed '07 Points % at WGCs
Tiger Woods 1 13,725 1 30,574 33%
Justin Rose 96 861 22 8,698 37%
Geoff Ogilvy 79 1,136 24 8,623 49%
Trevor Immelman 140 377 37 6,309 32%
Brett Wetterich 177 159 50 5,430 57%
Nick O'Hern 100 778 57 4,980 37%
Stephen Ames 32 2,434 64 4,787 28%
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