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PGATOUR.com staff

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods climbed to the top of the inaugural FedExCup standings last Sunday with his victory at the Wachovia Championship, which was the first event of the second half of the PGA TOUR season.

Tiger Woods leads the FedExCup standings. (WireImage)

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With THE PLAYERS Championship this week, there could be even more movement with 27,500 total points available and 4,950 going to the winner. And PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem expects interest to continue to build as the season progresses.

Only the top 144 players in the standings at the end of the Wyndham Championship are eligible for the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. That number will be cut to 120 for the second playoff event, 70 for the third and 30 for THE TOUR Championship.

Players will be reseeded after the Wyndham Championship with No. 1 receiving 100,000 points, No. 2 99,000, No. 3 99,500 and so forth. All four playoff events will award 50,000 points per tournament.

Finchem said the PGA TOUR will begin a push in June to educate fans about the playoffs and the various seeding possibilities. After that, the innovative new competition that awards a $10 million bonus to the winner -- the largest in sports -- will take care of itself.

"Our assessment right now is it is an absolute plus for the TOUR and for tournaments and for sponsors and for the players, no question," he said. "How big of a plus, we'll have a better sense of after the playoffs this year, and then we'll see what happens next year. But if we get a good base late this year then I think we'll be in good shape for next year.

"I think we have to be careful to remind fans that this is in addition to everything else we've had. It's not in place of anything. It doesn't take the place of some things that the Money List stands for. It is not in competition with THE PLAYERS or the PGA Championship or any of that.

"It stands for what it is -- it's a season?long competition, and I'm delighted that the players see it that way, are supporting it, and I'm pleased that from my perspective, maybe not 100 percent, but virtually all the players that are in those top seeds going into the competition will play all four weeks, which that would be the first time that ever happened in this sport, and I think it would be pretty exciting."