FedExCup notes: Week 13

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Last year, 6,800 points was good enough for the 30th seed in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. This week, at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, 19 players have a chance to clear that milestone, and move into the top five in the current standings.

Stewart Cink, by virtue of three top-three finishes in 2008, is well ahead of his 2007 FedExCup points pace. Several other players among the top 30 in the current FedExCup standings are also well ahead of their 2007 total to this point in the season. Here are the ones in the Zurich field:

Several players are in good position to finish much higher than last year. The players listed below are currently higher in the FedExCup standings than at the end of the regular season last year but scored more than half their points prior to this week of the season last year. If they continue their good start this year through the remaining 20 weeks of the regular season, they will finish well ahead of last year's seeding.

The gap between first and second on the FedExCup points list is enormous (nearly 6,000 points), but the race to get into the top five and 15 is much tighter than a year ago. Last year at this time, 21 players could have moved into the top five with a win, whereas this year, 59 could. Here are the players in the Zurich field who could make the top five with a win.