The Tour Championship 2009

Tiger Woods has just won the BMW Championship title with a commanding 8 point lead total. This win puts him back to the #1 spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 30 players will be battling it out in two weeks for The Tour Championship title at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

Here are the top 30 players:

1. Tiger Woods

2. Steve Stricker

3. Jim Furyk

4. Zach Johnson

5. Heath Slocum

6. Padraig Harrington

7. Sean O'Hair

8. Scott Verplank

9. Kenny Perry

10. Jason Dufner

11. Dustin Johnson

12. Nick Watney

13. Geoff Ogilvy

14. Phil Mickelson

15. Retief Goosen

16. Marc Leishman

17. Brian Gay

18. Kevin Na

19. David Toms

20. Lucas Glover

21. YE Yang

22. Ernie Els

23. Hunter Mahan

24. Angel Cabrera

25. Steve Marino

26. Stewart Cink

27. Mike Weir

28. Luke Donald

29. Jerry Kelly

30. John Senden

The points are reset and these players will be given points from 2500 to 210 entering The Tour Championship.

John Senden, No. 30, got really lucky today at Cog Hill. After a double bogey on the 17th hole and a par on the 18th, he was projected to miss the cut for The Tour Championship. The only thing that could save him was a very bad 18th hole for Brandt Snedeker which Brandt delivered. Snedeker shot a triple bogey on the par-4 18th with a 4-putt. This mistake caused him to miss the cut for The Tour Championship, giving the 30th spot to John Senden.

Like Snedeker, Ian Poulter also did not have lady luck on his side today. His chances of making the cut slowly slipped away as he made bogeys after bogeys. It all boiled down to the 18th hole in which he needed to shoot a birdie to make the cut for Atlanta. Poulter was not able to deliver and shot a bogey on the 18th bringing his rank down to 31st with less than half a point behind John Senden.

The most notable move on today's FedEx Cup Playoffs rank would be Jim "The Dark Horse" Furyk. Jim Furyk played a bogey free round today at Cog Hill, and finished tied for second with Australian Marc Leishman. As a result, Furyk jumped from rank 18th to 3rd entering The Tour Championship.