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By Brent Kelley, About.com Guide to Golf since 2002

This Week: Deutsche Bank Championship

Tuesday August 26, 2008
The PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs move to Round 2 this week, with the Top 120 players in the standings gaining entry into the Deutsche Bank Championship. This is where Phil Mickelson outdueled Tiger Woods head-to-head in 2007. Woods, of course, isn't there this year, although he still ranks 15th in points after the first week of the playoffs.

The PGA Tour tweaked the playoff points formula this year hoping to generate more up-and-down movement from week to week. How much movement was there after The Barclays? Here's a comparison of the Top 10 and the players in spots 111-120 (120 being the cutoff to get into the Deutsche Bank):

Top 10 Before Barclays
1. Tiger Woods
2. Kenny Perry
3. Phil Mickelson
4. Padraig Harrington
5. Anthony Kim
6. Stewart Cink
7. Vijay Singh
8. Justin Leonard
9. Ryuji Imada
10. Geoff Ogilvy

111-120 Before Barclays
111. Nick Watney
112. Zach Johnson
113. Vaughn Taylor
114. Rich Beem
115. Charles Warren
116. Bo Van Pelt
117. Dustin Johnson
118. Brett Quigley
119. Bob Tway
120. Patrick Sheehan

Top 10 After Barclays
1. Vijay Singh
2. Sergio Garcia
3. Kevin Sutherland
4. Phil Mickelson
5. Justin Leonard
6. Anthony Kim
7. Kenny Perry
8. Ben Curtis
9. Stewart Cink
10. Jim Furyk

111-120 After Barclays
111. Glen Day
112. Frank Lickliter II
113. Steve Flesch
114. Corey Pavin
115. Jeff Overton
116. Justin Bolli
117. Michael Letzig
118. Fred Couples
119. Lee Janzen
120. Alex Cejka

That's quite a bit of movement - a little bit inside the Top 10, certainly more than there would have been in 2007; and a lot at the other end. Every player from 111-120 is different after The Barclays.

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