American Justin Leonard is up from 38th to 25th in the world after beating Masters champion Trevor Immelman and Australian Robert Allenby in the play-off for the Stanford St Jude Classic in Memphis on Sunday.
Sergio Garcia tied for fourth with Padraig Harrington and is back in the world's top 10 at number seven, just behind leading European Justin Rose.
Latest leading positions:
1 Tiger Woods 19.44pts
2 Phil Mickelson 10.21
3 Adam Scott 5.86
4 Ernie Els 5.72
5 Geoff Ogilvy 5.62
6 Justin Rose 5.44
7 Sergio Garcia 5.22
8 Steve Stricker 5.21
9 Vijay Singh 5.14
10 Jim Furyk 5.09
11 KJ Choi 5.07
12 Padraig Harrington 4.83
13 Stewart Cink 4.78
14 Rory Sabbatini 4.73
15 Henrik Stenson 4.67
16 Trevor Immelman 4.66
17 Luke Donald 4.11
18 Aaron Baddeley 3.83
19 Anthony Kim 3.82
20 Lee Westwood 3.60
Other leading Europeans:
21 Miguel Angel Jimenez
28 Robert Karlsson
33 Ian Poulter
36 Niclas Fasth
40 Martin Kaymer
44 Paul Casey
47 Oliver Wilson
51 Soren Hansen
52 Nick Dougherty
67 Anders Hansen
68 Graeme McDowell
79 Carl Pettersson
80 Daniel Chopra
81 Soren Kjeldsen
83 Steve Webster
86 Peter Hanson
89 Bradley Dredge
89 Fredrik Jacobson
94 Alastair Forsyth
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