Movers and shakers: Travelers Championship

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Stewart Cink made a move last week, bulleting up from seventh to third in the FedExCup standings thanks to his victory at the Travelers Championship. Here are five more guys who made significant jumps.

Last week: Travelers Championship
This week:Buick Open
• Complete FedExCup standings

Biggest mover: Tommy Armour III
He moved: 48 spots, from 94th to 46th
Because: He tied for second at the Travelers Championship.
After posting back-to-back 65s last weekend, Armour now has two top-10 finishes in his past three starts (he tied for 10th at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial). In that third start, at Memphis, he tied for 24th. Armour is also eighth on TOUR in par-3 birdie conversion, at a shade over 15 percent.

Welcome to the top 30: Hunter Mahan
He moved: 39 spots, from 67th to 28th
Because: He tied for second at the Travelers Championship.
In his last three Travelers Championship appearances, Mahan has a win and two ties for second. That notwithstanding, this may be the beginnings of a roll for the Orange, Calif. native. Two weeks ago, Mahan tied for 18th at the U.S. Open.

Welcome to the top 100: Michael Letzig
He moved: 12 spots, from 106th to 94th
Because: He tied for 10th at the Travelers Championship.
Letzig is a PGA TOUR rookie, though sometimes that is hardly apparent. Letzig now has two top-20 finishes in his past three TOUR starts (he tied for 18th at the Stanford St. Jude Championship. He also has three top-10 finishes this season.

Welcome to the field: Kevin Streelman
He moved: 16 spots, from 140th to 124th
Because: He tied for 10th at the Travelers Championship.
Four bogeys last Sunday loomed large for Streelman. Still, his first top-10 finish of the season gets him in the 125-man FedExCup Playoffs field -- for the moment. He's currently riding a string of four consecutive cuts made. He is in the field for this week's Buick Open, a tournament he has never competed in.

Look out for: Bubba Watson
He moved: 20 spots, from 97th to 77th
Because: He tied for 10th at the Travelers Championship.
First, the good news: Watson has two top-11 finishes in his past five starts. Now the bad news: Two of the other three starts in those five were missed cuts. Of course, he's first in driving distance on TOUR, but he's also fourth on TOUR in par-5 performance with an average score of 4.61.