FedExCup Movers: DeLaet gets biggest standings boost

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Apr. 5, 2010
By Anne Szeker, PGATOUR.COM Producer

After opening his PGA TOUR season with two top 25 finishes, Canada's Graham DeLaet hit a slump, which included five-straight missed cuts. He started to find his game again with a T24 in Puerto Rico, and earned the honor of biggest FedExCup mover of the week with a T3 at last week's Shell Houston Open. DeLaet vaulted up the standings 75 places to 52nd.

Vaughn Taylor may have just missed making the Masters, but his second place finish moved him 52 spots up the FedExCup standings to break into the top 25 at 22nd. Top 10 finishes also significantly boosted Shaun Micheel, Kevin Stadler and Jeff Maggert's points totals. And Anthony Kim's win bumped Steve Stricker out of the No. 2 spot.

Steve Elkington and Kris Blanks were the biggest downward movers, falling 12 places each. Blanks has struggled since his second place finish at the Puerto Rico Open, which had moved him up 109 places in the FedExCup standings. He was T52 at Bay Hill and missed the cut in Houston to drop to 83rd this week.

The following are the biggest movers -- up and down -- after the 2010 Shell Houston Open.

Biggest Movers
Rising
Rank Player Last Week Change Most recent finish
52 Graham DeLaet 127 +75 T3 at the Shell Houston Open
109 Shaun Micheel 177 +68 Fifth at the Shell Houston Open
22 Vaughn Taylor 74 +52 Second at the Shell Houston Open
161 Roland Thatcher 207 +46 T22 at the Shell Houston Open
50 Kevin Stadler 87 +37 T6 at the Shell Houston Open
53 Jeff Maggert 90 +37 T6 at the Shell Houston Open
134 James Driscoll 164 +30 T14 at the Shell Houston Open
144 J.J. Henry 174 +30 T25 at the Shell Houston Open
100 Blake Adams 124 +24 T14 at the Shell Houston Open
2 Anthony Kim 26 +24 Won the Shell Houston Open
89 Ben Curtis 113 +24 T14 at the Shell Houston Open
Falling
87 Steve Elkington 75 -12 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
83 Kris Blanks 71 -12 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
80 Jason Dufner 69 -11 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
78 Briny Baird 68 -10 W/D at the Shell Houston Open
88 Heath Slocum 78 -10 T66 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational
66 George McNeill 56 -10 T40 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational
90 Jonathan Byrd 80 -10 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
94 Jeff Quinney 84 -10 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
64 Chad Collins 54 -10 Missed cut at Arnold Palmer Invitational
91 Matt Jones 81 -10 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
61 Cameron Beckman 52 -9 Missed cut at the Shell Houston Open
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