Bubble Watch: PGA Championship

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Pressure is mounting on the FedExCup bubble with the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup getting under way just two weeks from Thursday. It's now or never for players hovering around or outside the 125-man Playoffs cut line with The Barclays field being finalized on Aug. 21, at the conclusion of the Wyndham Championship.

Movement on the cut line slowed down last week with just two players crossing into the Playoffs picture. Scott Piercy, who won in Reno and was the week's biggest mover, and Steve Flesch moved inside the top 125. Being pushed out were William McGirt and Dean Wilson, who check in this week at Nos. 127 and 128 respectively.

That movement could be multiplied this week, however. Just three players between 115th and 125th in the FedExCup standings are competing at Atlanta Athletic Club, leaving plenty of opportunity for players like Ernie Els (126th), Tiger Woods (129th), Padraig Harrington (130th) and 10 others currently on the outside to move inside the top 125.

Els, Woods and Harrington could each move back inside the top 125 with a top-60 finish at the PGA Championship.

Camilo Villegas, who won two Playoffs events in 2008 en route to a second-place finish in the race for the FedExCup, slipped from 120th to 125th, placing him squarely on the FedExCup bubble. He's one nine players in this week's field outside the top 100 in the standings but currently inside the Playoffs cut line.

Below is a look at the players in the PGA Championship field outside the top 100 in FedExCup points entering the week. It's important to note that only the top 100 in the FedExCup standings after The Barclays advance to the second Playoffs event -- the Deutsche Bank Championship.