The changes will be finalised by the end-of-year board meeting at the Tour Championship in Madrid in early November.
This year, Garcia lost playoffs to run second place to Vijay Singh at The Barclays and to Camilo Villegas at the Tour Championship.
Twenty-six year old Camilo Villegas climbed to number seven in the world rankings this year after successive wins at the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship.
From there the field is eventually whittled down to 30 players, who compete in the grand finale, the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
He also won the U.S. PGA's premier non-major event, the Tour Championship in September, but they were the few highlights in a year in which his wife and mother were diagnosed with breast cancer.
In an interesting twist last year, Jim Furyk was disqualified from the Barclays (the first event) after missing the pro-am event, but went on to win the TOUR Championship event and the FedEx Cup anyway.
There is no cut at the tournament, the third leg of the lucrative FedExCup play offs, but only the top 30 in the rankings advance to the Tour Championship in Atlanta in two weeks time.
The top 100 players on the points list after the Barclays will compete at the Deutsche Bank Championship (4-7 Sept), with 70 going on to the BMW Championship (10-13 Sept) and the final 30 contesting the Tour Championship (24-27 Sept).
With only the top 30 on the money list earning a place at the Tour Championship, Els, who has not won on the PGA Tour for two years, is in the vulnerable position of holding the last invite at the moment.
Woods is the only player who might still have a chance to capture the Player of the Year if he were to win the Tour Championship in two weeks but that probably will not be enough as McIlroy stands to win the U.S. and European Tour money titles.
He was 30 shots behind at Firestone in 2010 at the depth of his struggles, and he was 20 shots behind in the 1996 Tour Championship at age 20.
The South African responded to the early setback by making 2007 his best year so far on the golf circuit, winning three titles on the Sunshine Tour including the Telkcom PGA championship.
Still, Rose is the only British player to advance to the 30-man Tour Championship, with Luke Donald and Ian Poulter eliminated, Donald by the smallest of margins.
The PLAYERS, which started in 1974, was the brainchild of then-Tour commissioner Deane Beman, who thought the Tour needed its own championship.
The rules official who assessed the penalty, the first in a major since the 2010 PGA Championship (the PGA Tour hasn't assessed one since 1995), said he spoke with Guan several times throughout the round before taking action.
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McGowan, whose best previous result on the Tour was fifth at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in 2007, fired seven birdies at The Vines Resort and Country Club.
He won the season-ending tour championship last year, but he has never won a major.
Scotland's Andrew Oldcorn was way down in 199th position, just five year's after winning the tour's flagship event, the PGA Championship, at Wentworth.
The last full-field tournament of the US season, the Chrysler Championship has attracted a number of big names eager to either nail down their places in the season-ending Tour Championship next week in Atlanta or find some form ahead of that event.
Last month, he made the cut at the PGA Tour's Transitions Championship.
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The 20-year-old Italian, who last week became the youngest winner of the tour's flagship PGA Championship, carded one-under 71 to be tied for third in Sweden -- four shots behind leader Mikko Illonen of Finland.
He covered Spain's 2010 World Cup victory from Madrid and has broadcast live from Wimbledon, the US Open (both tennis and golf), the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and five consecutive Champions League finals.
After a good showing at The U.S. Open, Cantlay fired a 60 Friday at the Travelers Championship, the lowest by an amateur in PGA Tour history.
The economic downturn is taking a heavy toll on the LPGA Tour with tournaments in Hawaii, South Carolina, Oklahomo and Alabama going from the 2009 schedule and the end of season Stanford Financial Tour Championship in considerable doubt.
He joined Woods has the only players to win more than once this year on tour Kuchar also won the Match Play Championship in February and his game is peaking heading into a summer of majors, the one missing piece for the 35-year-old American.
Schwartzel, the Joburg champion in 2010 and 2011, is looking for his third successive title after December victories at the Asian Tour's Thailand Open and the co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship held in Malalane near Kruger National Park.
Feng, who became the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour event and a major when she captured the LPGA Championship last year, gave credit to Webb.
His elevation to national coaching circles began in 2001 when he took charge of the England A tour to the West Indies, and Sussex's historic County Championship triumph two years later served to enhance a growing reputation.
McIlroy has struggled to repeat his dominance of last season, when he topped both the U.S. and European Tour money lists and won his second major at the PGA Championship in August.
But the U.S. PGA Championship, which comes under the auspices of the PGA Tour, would allow it.
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