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By Tom LaMarre, The Sports XchangeThe Sports Xchange's PGA Tour rankings, selected by TSX golf staff, are based on results from 2009 and 2010 — with more emphasis on recent performance.1. Phil Mickelson, United States:Having played nine times already this season as he struggled to get his game going before winning the Shell Houston Open in his next-to-last start, Lefty apparently is taking three weeks off before playing in the Wells Fargo Championship. He has not committed to the event, which he has played each of the last seven years, but told a reporter after the Masters that he would be there after finishing second, four strokes behind Rory McIlroy at Quail Hollow last year. That's one of his five top-10 finishes in the event. He committed last week to the Players Championship the following week. … Mickelson missed yet another chance to take over the No. 1 spot in the World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career when he tied for 27th two weeks ago in the Masters. He's 40 and fighting off the effects of psoriatic arthritis, which was diagnosed last year, and some observers said he seemed worn out at times earlier this season. Lefty worked so hard to get his game in shape after a slow start to his season, so perhaps he did not have enough left in the tank at Augusta National after winning the previous week at Houston. … Mickelson was not pleased when he learned that a Krispy Kreme shop in Augusta was using pictures of him and threatened legal action through a representative before the images were taken down. He visited the shop wearing his Masters Green Jacket and bought 36 donuts on the Monday morning after his victory last year. The incident received wide media coverage. 2. Luke Donald, England:Donald said he is not superstitious, so he still does not believe that winning the Masters par-3 contest the day before the first major of the season played any role in his not wearing the Green Jacket on Sunday night. He kept alive the par-3 curse — the winner of the family-friendly event never has won the tournament. Donald was right in the thick of things until hitting his tee shot into Rae's Creek on the par-3 12th hole and wound up in a tie for fourth, his third top-10 finish in the tournament. … After a week off, he is back for the Heritage, and the narrow fairways and small greens at Harbour Town certainly seem to fit his game. After missing the cut in two of his first three appearances on Hilton Head and tying for 69th the other time, he tied for second in 2009 and tied for third last year. Two years ago, he played the weekend in 66-65 but had too much ground to make up after starting 73-70 and finished 10 strokes behind winner Brian Gay. A year ago, he started with three consecutive rounds in the 60s before a 70 on Sunday left him three shots out of a playoff in which Jim Furyk defeated Brian Davis of England. … After starting his season late and missing the cut in the Northern Trust Open on the third weekend of January, Donald has posted four consecutive finishes in the top 10 on the PGA Tour, including his victory in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He leads the circuit with a scoring average of 69.28 and with an average of 27.43 putts per round. 3. Matt Kuchar, United States:Two 75s at Augusta National kept Kooch from posting his seventh top-10 finish of the season in nine starts on the PGA Tour, but he continues to lead the circuit in that department after he had 11 a year ago to lead the pack. The Europeans are dominating the top 10 of the World Golf Rankings with six players, but Kuchar has climbed to No. 10, joining fellow Americans Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in the highest echelon. … He is playing this week the Heritage for the seventh time in eight years, having missed the event at Harbour Town only in 2006. His best finish on Hilton Head Island was a tie for seventh in 2007, when he played the weekend in 68-67. Kuchar also tied for 10th in 2007 and tied for 14th last year and has made the cut six consecutive times after missing in 2003, the first time he played at Harbour Town. … It didn't seem that he needed to change anything after claiming the PGA Tour money title last season, but Kuchar decided he still could putt better. He was giving instruction on chipping at a clinic in January when he ran into putting guru Dave Stockton, who gave him some tips. Then he went to a 45-inch putter, which seems to be working — he ranks 27th on the PGA Tour with a putting average of 28.55, slightly better than his mark last year. Kuchar has all the tools, borne out by the fact that he is second on the PGA Tour in the overall ranking, a compilation of eight major categories. He knows all he needs is to win more. 4. Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland:G-Mac has plenty of work to do in order to get his game back on track before his title defense in the U.S. Open at Congressional, but he also has plenty of time — almost two months. After a remarkable run in the last year, in which he claimed three victories, amassed several more finishes in the top 10 and scored the winning point for the Europeans in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales, he suddenly is struggling. In his last three events, McDowell tied for 42nd in the WGC-Cadillac Championship and missed the cut in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Masters. The slump came after he finished in the top 10 in his first three events of 2011 on the PGA Tour. … He will try to get things turned around this week in the Heritage even though he has not had much success on the narrow fairways and small greens in two previous appearances at Harbour Town. McDowell tied for 70th in 2005, beating only four players who made the cut, and shot 70-75—145 to miss the cut by three strokes in 2006. He has not broken 70 in any of his six rounds at Hilton Head. … His ball-striking has been good enough this season — he has hit nearly 70% of the fairways and greens — but he must get better with the putter. McDowell ranks 144th on the PGA Tour with an average of 29.69 putts per round and is 99th with a putting average of 1.786. 5. Jim Furyk, United States:The reigning PGA Tour player of the year and FedEx Cup champion has been off his game for most of this year but hopes to find it this week when he defends his title in the Heritage. He has only two finishes in the top 10 on the PGA Tour this season, ties for ninth in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but has gotten better with three consecutive finishes in the top 25 after he missed the cut in two consecutive outings and was out of the top 30 in his next three. … Furyk posted four rounds in the 60s last year and won with a par on the first playoff hole when Brian Davis called a two-stroke penalty on himself after his club ticked a reed in a marshy area near the 18th green. Furyk has played 12 times at Harbour Town and finished in the top 10 on five occasions, all since 2003. Furyk finished second in 2006, one stroke behind Aaron Baddeley, one year after he tied for second, two shots behind Peter Lonard. … Furyk announced last week that he will partner with the Children's Miracle Network in a program called "Miracle Birdies." Beginning with the Heritage, he will donate in the neighborhood of $200 for each birdie he makes the rest of the season. Last year, he made 269 birdies on the PGA Tour. Fans can pledge their support of Furyk online, donating money for each birdie at www.miraclebirdies.com. Fans' donations will benefit their local Children's Miracle Network hospital. 6. Tiger Woods, United States:Since he continues to say that the swing changes he has been working on with instructor Sean Foley are starting to kick in, you would think that Woods would want to jump back into competitive golf as soon as possible. However, there still are no future events listed on the schedule page at tigerwoods.com, and he has not committed to any of the next few tournaments. A year ago, he took three weeks off after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Masters before playing in the Wells Fargo Championship, and it's starting to look as if he will do it again after an identical result at Augusta. … Woods flew off to Asia after the first major of the year, not to play in a golf tournament, but to make a promotional tour for Nike. He conducted clinics and met with young golfers at Mission Hills Golf Complex in Shenzhen, China, at Beijing Sports University, and at Jade Palace Golf Club in Chuncheon, South Korea, near Seoul. Cindy Davis, president of Nike Golf, said it was a mob scene at each of the venues. Tiger is extremely popular in Asia since his mother, Tida, is from Thailand, and Davis added that the trip was made in part because Asia represents 40% of the global golf market. … While he was on the trip, Woods learned that a new World Golf Championships event in South Africa might conflict with the dates of his Chevron World Challenge in December. He said he would look into it upon his return to the U.S. 7. Justin Rose, England:After finishing in a tie for 11th in the Masters, a bit disappointing but continuing his solid play this season, Rose is taking two weeks off before teeing it up again next week in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the sixth time. He has finished in the top 25 in eight of his nine appearances on the PGA Tour this season, missing only when he tied for 42nd in the WGC-Cadillac Championship, and has wound up in the top 10 three times. … After being left off the European team for the Ryder Cup last year at Celtic Manor, failing to earn one of Colin Montgomerie's three Captain's Picks even though he won twice on the PGA Tour in 2010, Rose has made making next year's team a huge priority. Since the points race starts this year, he is going to play the 13 events required for European Tour membership, which he did not do last season. That will start when he plays in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, outside of London, at the end of next month. His Masters finish put him 11th on the World Points List for making the team. The top five at the finish automatically make the Euro team that will play at Medinah. … Rose leads the PGA Tour in greens in regulation (73.61 percent) this season and is fourth in the all-around ranking, but his putting has not been up to his standards. He is averaging 29.66 putts per round, more than a stroke higher than his mark for the 2010 season. 8. Bubba Watson, United States:Bubba is on the last half of a two-week break after his disappointing finish in the Masters, before playing in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the seventh time. He's probably been working on his putting since he hit the ball extremely well at Augusta but struggled on he greens, averaging 31.5 putts per round. … Of course, if Watson putts even average, he can be a force since he ranks third on the PGA Tour with a driving average of 308.2 and also is third in total driving (a combination of distance and accuracy) in addition to being second in greens in regulation at 73.18. His average of 30.14 putts per round ranks 174th on the circuit, and he is 87th with a putting average of 1.780. … At the Masters, 22-year-old Rickie Fowler joked that the 32-year-old Watson started playing well when they started hanging out together, but there might be some truth to that. Bubba was pretty much a sideshow for the booming drives and array of amazing shots he can pull off, but he did not do all that much until last year, when Fowler was a rookie on the PGA Tour. Watson, who joined the circuit in 2006, did not claim his first victory until the Travelers Championship last year. He also lost in a three-hole playoff to Martin Kaymer of Germany at the PGA Championship and played on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. He added his second victory in the Farmers Insurance Open this year, and there is one theory that Fowler has helped the once uptight Watson relax. 9. Steve Stricker, United States:Having barely missed his fourth top-10 finish of the season in the Masters, Stricker is taking a two-week break before playing in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans next week. Even though he was not happy with his game when he tied for 29th in the Northern Trust Open and was knocked out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship the next week by 17-year-old Matteo Manassero of Italy in the first round, Stricker has played some solid golf in 2011. His streak of having made the cut in 30 consecutive events is the longest active string on the PGA Tour, and he has placed in the top 25 in five of his seven tournaments this year. … Strick completely overhauled his swing and resurrected his career six years ago, leading to six of his nine career victories on the circuit as he became one of the best players in the world. However, he has been tinkering with that swing lately because he believes his draw became a little too pronounced, and he simply wants to take a little of the left out of it. The transition might have led to what he thought was some inconsistency this season off the tee and to the green. However, he makes up for it by averaging 28.13 putts per round, ranked 10th on the PGA Tour. … He is looking forward to getting back to New Orleans, where he played 12 consecutive years until being forced to skip the event last year because of a collarbone injury. 10. Geoff Ogilvy, Australia:After opening with a 3-under-par 69 last week in the Valero Texas Open, Ogilvy seemed to be suffering from a Masters hangover — he could not break par the rest of the week and wound up in a tie for 23rd. Until slumping on the last three days, he had broken 70 in six of his last seven rounds, including three of four while finishing in a tie for fourth at Augusta National. … Trying to make up for losing the first four weeks of the season because of a finger injury, Ogilvy has played eight times since the beginning of February and probably is due for at least a couple of weeks off. He has not committed to any of the next three tournaments on the PGA Tour although he might play at the Wells Fargo Championship for the eighth consecutive year in three weeks, a week before the Players Championship. … After playing his last 11 holes of the first round in a bogey-free 4-under last week in Texas, Ogilvy was not sharp the rest of the way after the wind picked up. He was part of a seven-way tie for the 36-hole lead at 69-72 but played the weekend in 74-73 at TPC San Antonio. The Aussie hit under 60% of the fairways and greens, surprising for a guy known as a good wind player, but kept himself in the top 25 by continuing to wield a hot putter. Ogilvy averaged 28.3 putts per round one week after averaging 27.8 to rank among the leaders at Augusta National. 11. Adam Scott, Australia:Picking up right where he left off in a tie for second in the Masters, Scott opened the Valero Texas Open with a 4-under-par 68 and was only one stroke out of the lead. However, he could not break 70 the rest of the way and slid down the leaderboard to a tie for 23rd. … After playing the last two weeks, Scott is going to take at least a two-week break before the Players Championship. He has played in this week's Heritage only once and never has been in the field for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, which will be contested next week. However, he might be back in two weeks to play in the Wells Fargo Championship for the seventh consecutive year even though he had not committed as of the weekend and it was not listed on the schedule page at adamscott.com … After carding only one bogey in the first round at TPC San Antonio last week, Scott had 12 of them the rest of the way. His last round was almost exactly the opposite of the first — he could make only a single birdie while shooting 76 after starting the day in a tie for fifth, just three strokes out of the lead. His new long putter kept him in the Masters all the way to the finish, but he was inconsistent on the greens in Texas. Scott needed only a total of 54 putts in the first and third rounds but took 31 on each of the other two days. 12. Dustin Johnson, United States:DJ is taking two weeks off following his disheartening tie for 38th in the Masters after arriving at Augusta National listed among the favorites in what was considered the most wide-open field in years at the first major of the season. He has run hot-and-cold this season; his three finishes in the top 10 include second to Nick Watney in the WGC-Cadillac Championship and a tie for third in the Farmers Insurance Open, but there also have been two missed cuts and only one other finish in the top 25 in nine events on the PGA Tour. … Instead of making the relatively short drive (about four hours) from his home in Myrtle Beach to Hilton Head for his home-state event, the Heritage, this week, Johnson is flying off to Incheon, South Korea, for the Ballantine's Championship next week. That might be because Harbour Town has not been kind to him in his two appearances. DJ shot 79-79—158 and missed the cut by a whopping 15 strokes in 2008 and followed with 71-76—147 to again miss the weekend by three shots the following year. … Johnson was hoping to at least surpass his best finish in the Masters, a tie for 30th in 2008, but instead he equaled his 2010 result. His ball-striking was very solid, and he admitted the problem simply was that he could not figure out the tricky greens at Augusta. He finished near the bottom of the field with an average of 30.25 putts per round. 13. Ernie Els, South Africa:Three top-25 finishes are the best Els has to show for eight events on the PGA Tour this season, so he apparently will be playing the next two weeks in an effort to get his game in shape for the Players Championship next month and the big summer events to follow. He committed recently to play in the Heritage and then will jet off to Incheon, South Korea, for the Ballantine's Championship. … The Heritage has been something of a spring vacation for the Els family. He has played in it 11 times previously, with seven finishes in the top 10. He might feel as if Harbour Town owes him one. He finished solo second in 2007, when he held the 36-hole lead at 65-65 but played the weekend in 71-70 to wind up one stroke back when Boo Weekley chipped in for unlikely pars on the last two holes. The Big Easy also held the lead in 2004 after posting three rounds of 68 or better but closed with a 3-over-par 71 and finished in a tie for third, two strokes out of the playoff in which Stewart Cink beat Ted Purdy. … Els was understandably popping his buttons when Louis Oosthuizen, who came out of the Ernie Els junior golf program in South Africa, captured the Open Championship at St. Andrews last July, and he felt the same when countryman Charl Schwartzel won the Masters two weeks ago. Ernie pointed out that when he edged Schwartzel to win the World Golf Championship last year, he told reporters that they would be seeing more of his countryman. 14. Ian Poulter, England:Despite some stretches of very good golf at the Masters, Poulter has not shown anything close to his best stuff since he tied for sixth in the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions. After taking a week off, he will play the next two weeks ahead of the Players Championship at the beginning of next month. After teeing it up in the Heritage this week, he will head to Incheon, South Korea, for the Ballantine's Championship, which is co-sanctioned by the European and Asian PGA tours. … Poulter will be playing at Harbour Town for the fourth time, and it won't take much for him to record his best finish in the course. He tied for 61st in 2004, finished solo 72nd ahead of only three players who made the cut in 2005, tied for 47th in 2006 and hasn't been back since. He shot 2-under-par 69 in the first round the last time he played at Hilton Head, the only time he has broken 70 in 12 rounds on the shores of Calibogue Sound. … Poulter said at Augusta that he has been frustrated watching his world ranking slide from No. 7 to No. 16 (last week) while some of his European counterparts head in the other direction. It didn't help his confidence when Ryder Cup teammate Graeme McDowell took £260 from him in one of their practice rounds before the Masters. Poulter said he's trying to figure out why he can't play the stroke-play events the way he performs in the Ryder Cup, where he has been a stalwart for the Euros the last two times.15. Nick Watney, United States:Following his worst performance in four appearances in the Masters and after he was getting support as a man who could claim the Green Jacket, Watney is taking two weeks off before playing next week in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He will be appearing for the sixth time in New Orleans, where he claimed his first PGA title, by three strokes over Ken Duke in 2007. Nick is skipping the Heritage this week, possibly because in his only two appearances at Harbour Town, in 2005 and 2006, he shot 7-over-par 78 in the first round each time and wound up with two missed cuts. … Watney finished in a tie for 13th in the Transitions Championship and was solo 46th in the Masters in his last two outings after winning the WGC-Cadillac Championship. His top-10 finishes in seven previous outings on the PGA Tour put him on the verge of cracking the top 10 in the World Golf Rankings for the first time. He was at No. 15 last week. … Watney quickly forgot his final-round 9-over-par 81 last August in the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, finishing in a tie for fourth the next month in the Tour Championship, and must now put his Masters performance in the rear-view mirror. His game has been sharp most of the year — he leads the PGA Tour in the all-around ranking (a compilation of eight major statistical categories), is second in scoring average at 69.56 and is eighth in putts per round at 28.08. 16. Rickie Fowler, United States:After taking a week off following his tie for 38th in his first Masters, Fowler returns to the PGA Tour this week to play in the Heritage for the third time. The 2010 PGA Tour rookie of the year is right about where he was last season at this time, with two finishes in the top 10, although this year he has two additional top-25 results that he did not have in his first three-plus months on the circuit. … He started to get things going in the Heritage a year ago when he played the weekend in 69-67 to finish in a tie for eighth and followed that up with by finishing solo sixth in the Wells Fargo Championship in his next outing. Rickie also played at Harbour Town in 2008 as an amateur, while he was still at Oklahoma State, shooting 70-76—146 to miss the cut by three strokes. He earned an exemption into the tournament that year by winning the Players Amateur the previous summer at Belfair Plantation in Bluffton, S.C., not far from Harbour Town. … Fowler's ball-striking has not been what it was last season, when he finished 24th in total driving, a combination of distance and accuracy, and was 22nd in greens in regulation at 69.90%. He is 133rd in total driving this season and 158th in greens in regulation at 61.75% but has improved his putting dramatically. Fowler ranks third with an average of 27.69 putts per round, up from 29.30, which ranked 83rd last season. 17. Paul Casey, England:Casey is taking three weeks off, according to the schedule at paulcasey.com, to regroup from his disappointing tie for 38th in the Masters. Other than his victory in the Volvo Golf Champions in Bahrain on the European PGA Tour, it's been a bit of a slow start for the No. 7 player in the World Golf Rankings although he does have four other finishes in the top 20. He plans to play next in the Wells Fargo Championship, teeing it up at Quail Hollow for the second time. … Last week, Casey was at Celtic Manor in Wales, site of the Ryder Cup, for the launch of Power Play Golf. Perhaps ironically, he is joined in the endeavor by Colin Montgomerie, who notoriously did not make Casey one of his three Captain's Picks for the European team that edged the Americans in the Ryder Cup. Power Play Golf, formatted to attract younger players, is played with two flags on each of nine holes, and each match is designed to be played in less than three hours. The white flag will be placed in a standard pin-setting, with extra points for players who go for the more difficult black flag. Seven Power Play tournaments are expected to be held in 2012. Ken Schofield, former European Tour executive director, was appointed PPG chairman. … Casey has played seven times this season on both major tours and is trying to find the groove he was in late last year, when he finished in the top six in five consecutive tournaments, including second in the BMW Championship and a tie for fourth in the Tour Championship. 18. Mark Wilson, United States:Already guaranteed a career year as the only player on the PGA Tour with two victories this season, Wilson took last week off after missing the cut in his first Masters and will return this week in the Heritage. With 10 tournaments under his belt already this year, he leads the PGA Tour money list with $2,430,825 and also is first in the FedEx Cup standings with 1,161 points. … The 36-year-old Wilson is playing at Harbour Town for the fifth time but has not had much success on the shores of Calibogue Sound. He shot 75-73—148 to miss the cut by six strokes in his first appearance on Hilton Head Island in 2003, tied for 36th in 2007, tied for 53rd in 2008 and tied for 56th the following year. … Aside from his two victories, which gave him four in his PGA Tour career, Wilson has only one other top-10 finish this year, a tie for ninth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational last month. His ball-striking has been good all season — he ranks 16th in driving accuracy at 68.87% and eighth in greens in regulation at 71.73. Wilson credited his putting for those victories in the Sony Open in Hawaii and Waste Management Phoenix Open, but he has been inconsistent on the greens. He ranks 148th with an average of 29.74 putts per round and 131st with a putting average of 1.800. If he can tighten that up, he might be in contention almost every week. 19. Charl Schwartzel:Not too many people would have criticized Schwartzel for blowing off his commitment to the Maybank Malaysian Open last week after he won the Masters, but he lived up to his word and made the trip to Kuala Lumpur. He rallied down the stretch in round two to make the cut on the number at 73-71—144 with a birdie on his last hole, No. 9. Then the seventh South African major golf champion played the weekend in 67-70 to finish in a tie for 11th, missing a top-10 finish when he carded a bogey on the 72nd hole. … Schwartzel has not committed to any future events on the PGA Tour, but he might play in two weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship for the first time. He and his countryman, Louis Oosthuizen, are traveling the U.S. circuit together this year as first-time members, and the schedule page at louis57oosthuizen.com lists the event at Quail Hollow as Louie's next tournament. They both made the trip to Malaysia, so it seems plausible that both with be in North Carolina. … Schwartzel quite understandably seemed to run out of gas late in the first round in Malaysia after the long trip last week; he was at 2-under-par through 10 holes before recording his only three bogeys down the stretch. He was under par the rest of the way and played his best golf Friday, when he had an eagle and five birdies. Charl might have challenged winner Matteo Manassero had he not averaged 31.3 putts per round and taken at least 30 every day. T20. Martin Laird, Scotland:As you might expect from a Scot who grew up playing in the wind, Laird came on strong as others fell back last week in the Valero Texas Open. He shot 69-70 on the weekend in the breezy conditions at TPC San Antonio and climbed the leaderboard to a tie for ninth. That gave him four top-10 finishes in his last five events on the PGA Tour, including his victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, with the exception a tie for 20th in the Masters. … Laird, who lives most of the year in Scottsdale, Ariz., will take a two-week break before teeing it up again in the Wells Fargo Championship, where he will be making his third appearance. He gave up his European Tour membership this season because he did not want to commit to the 13 mandatory events, but he might rejoin next year because one of his long-term goals is to make the Ryder Cup team. In the early going, he is 34th on the World Points list, with the top five at the finish making the Euro team that will be captained by Jose Maria Olazabal. … Laird got off to a slow start and made only four birdies in the first two rounds last week in Texas but carded four in each of the last two rounds. He was in danger of missing the cut for only the second time in 10 events on the PGA Tour this season until he made his only two birdies of round two at Nos. 2 and 3 on the front nine after starting at No. 10. T20. Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa:Oosthuizen made the long trip to Kuala Lumpur for the Maybank Malaysian Open last week following the Masters, and his performance was the opposite of his buddy, Masters champion Charl Schwartzel. Oosty opened with a 3-under-par 69 but went 75-76-75 to wind up 73rd, ahead of only two players who made the cut. … According to the schedule page at louis57oosthuizen.com, he will return to the PGA Tour in two weeks for the Wells Fargo Championship, but as of the weekend he had not committed to his first appearance at Quail Hollow. Louie, who also is a member of the European Tour, has committed to the BMW Championship next month at Wentworth outside of London. For the first time in its history, that event will have all four major titleholders: Oosthuizen, who won the Open Championship at St. Andrews; Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, the U.S. Open champion; Martin Kaymer of Germany, the PGA champion, and Schwartzel. … Last week at Kuala Lumpur, Oosthuizen carded only one bogey in his opening round but had 11 of them and four double bogeys over his last 54 holes. It appeared he would finish strong when he played the front nine of the final round in 3-under 33, but he took three double bogeys while playing the back in 42. After averaging 34.0 putts per round while missing the cut in the Masters, Oosty again struggled on the greens, averaging 31.7. He started fast this season with a victory in the Africa Open and seemed to be coming on with top-20 finishes in the WGC-Cadillac Championship and the Shell Houston Open before struggling the last two weeks. Others receiving consideration:Jhonattan Vegas, Venezuela; Bill Haas, United States; Aaron Baddeley, Australia; Hunter Mahan, United States; Jonathan Byrd, United States; D.A. Points, United States; Steve Marino, United States; J.B. Holmes, United States; Vijay Singh, Fiji; Y.E. Yang, South Korea; Jason Day, Australia; Rory Sabbatini, South Africa; Padraig Harrington, Ireland; Gary Woodland, United States; Brendan Steele, United States.
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