Heat Index: Canadian Open
 
Jul. 24, 2007

K.J. Choi's strong showing in the Open Championship assured him a spot atop our Heat ranking for another week:

CHOI STILL NO. 1
Average FedExCup points over the last four PGA TOUR events:
Rank Player Points
1 K.J. Choi 2,443
2 Hunter Mahan 1,668
3 Angel Cabrera 1,307
4 Jim Furyk 1,269
5 Padraig Harrington 1,252
6 Rory Sabbatini 1,192
7 Johnathan Byrd 1,188
8 Brian Bateman 1,137
9 Tim Clark 1,130
10 Tiger Woods 1,046
11 Steve Stricker 996
12 David Toms 896
13 Sergio Garcia 811
14 Troy Matteson 778
15 Scott Verplank 629

Open Championship winner Padraig Harrington moved all the way to 19th in the FedExCup point standings with his 4,950-point win at Carnoustie:

The Race for $10 million
Padraig Harrington moved over 60 spots last week:
Rank Player Last Week Change
19 Padraig Harrington 80 61
80 Mike Weir 105 25
94 Ben Curtis 116 22
25 Ernie Els 37 12
11 Sergio Garcia 22 11
223 Mark O'Meara 230 7
121 Rich Beem 127 6
186 Lee Westwood 192 6
26 Stewart Cink 32 6
116 Chris DiMarco 121 5
224 Sandy Lyle 229 5