He won the season-ending tour championship last year, but he has never won a major.
At this year's Tour Championship in late September, a third of the field was international.
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.
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.
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.
The Englishman needed to finish an first or second to secure a place in next week's prestigious Tour Championship but is highly unlikely to achieve his goal now.
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.
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.
An eagle at the 14th did repair some of the damage, however, and his one-over 72 was still good enough for a share of sixth place and a berth in next week's season-ending Tour Championship.
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 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 also secured his place at next week's World Tour Championship in Dubai after closing the tournament on 17-under, despite a blip half way through his round when he fell back to level pegging with his South African challenger.
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.
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.
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.
Lance Armstrong, the all-American cancer survivor who set the record in cycling for most Tour De France championship admitted in an Oprah Winfrey interview that he achieved his victories by doping.
The PLAYERS, which started in 1974, was the brainchild of then-Tour commissioner Deane Beman, who thought the Tour needed its own championship.
Last month, he made the cut at the PGA Tour's Transitions Championship.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
"No, not really, " McIlroy said Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Championship, scene of his first PGA Tour title in 2010.
He will make his choice next Tuesday after this week's Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup series.
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