After the PGA Championship two weeks ago, Woods was ranked 108th in the FedEx Cup standings.
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The FedEx Cup had fans interested in golf in September for the first time (excluding Ryder Cup competitions).
Two-time FedEx Cup winner Woods has committed to the first three playoff tournaments.
The tournament is the first leg of the four-event FedEx Cup play-off series.
Over the last five years it's been successful in luring many of the global elite to the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
FedEx Cup champion Brandt Snedeker was on the practice range and told of an 8-iron that only went about 50 yards.
He will make his choice next Tuesday after this week's Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup series.
He is tied on six-under with 2012 FedEx Cup winner Brandt Snedeker.
McIlroy won the PGA Championship, and then won consecutive FedEx Cup playoff events and ended the year with another big win in Dubai.
Wilson's first win since the Phoenix Open in February 2011 moved him up to second place in the early-season FedEx Cup standings behind Wagner.
Stricker and Woods are second and third respectively on the new FedEx Cup points list, behind leader Phil Mickelson, who has taken the week off.
The newly crowned PGA champion had predicted a low total to win the second round of the FedEX Cup playoffs and so it has proved.
Watson and Fowler make up half of golf's only boy band, the Golf Boys, along with Ben Crane and FedEx Cup leader Hunter Mahan.
The FedEx Cup is a four-tournament playoff system in which players accumulate points (similar to NASCAR) that go toward determining the winner of the FedEx Cup.
Major champions Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Webb Simpson, Lucas Glover and Trevor Immelman all missed the halfway cut along with FedEx Cup series leader Brandt Snedeker.
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Casey, who eight days ago lost his lead on the European "Race to Dubai" money list to German Martin Kaymer, lies 18th in the FedEx Cup standings.
With the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs starting next week', Westwood has moved quickly to put a new support team in place for the opening event -- the Barclays.
"I don't want to be dictated to by having to go to America to play FedEx Cup when it doesn't really mean that much to me, " said the 37-year-old.
Woods is expected to play at the The Barclays golf tournament, the first leg of the FedEx Cup, which kicks off Thursday at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.
The FedEx Cup, being No. 1 is a great position to be in, but we're maybe a little more than halfway through, so we have a long haul on that.
McIlroy, who would have taken the FedEx Cup title with victory, carded a four-over 74 to finish in a five-way tie for 10th, but he took the time to congratulate Snedeker.
And he says his resurgence to the top of the sport has ensured he can make his own choices, including skipping the FedEx Cup - a requirement of the US Tour.
The 28-year-old beat fellow American Troy Kelly with a four-foot birdie putt at the third extra hole to earn a place at the British Open, the FedEx Cup playoffs and next year's Masters.
For one day, his mind appeared to be back on the fairways and greens as he shot a six-under 65 Thursday in the first round of the Barclays in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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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.
Woods, who has won five times this season but was pipped by Yang to the USPGA title, leads the FedEx Cup standings with points accrued during the regular season counting for the first three play-off events.
Golf's FedEx Cup is going to be a huge success for the PGA. The inaugural edition in 2007 was slammed for a convoluted points system, players missing events and paydays that players couldn't touch for 20 years.
The current top five in the FedEx Cup standings, Woods, world No. 1 Rory McIroy, Phil Mickelson, Nick Watney and Brandt Snedeker, will all win the top prize with victory at the East Lake Golf Club -- regardless of how their rivals fare.
The side is decided at Gleneagles in two weeks, although many of those still trying to grab a guaranteed place - Montgomerie has three wild cards - are staying in America for the start of the FedEx Cup play-offs, which do not count for points.
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