Movers: Immelman, Van Pelt surge in Phoenix

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The changes kept a-comin' last week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Now, the FedExCup standings feature two new players inside the top 10 (Ben Crane and Webb Simpson) and a brand new No. 1. More on him later, though.

Bo Van Pelt, who finished 23rd in last year's PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup, was the week's biggest mover after he tied for 8th in Phoenix to move up 69 spots in the standings. Van Pelt checks in at No. 59 this week.

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A pair of former TOUR winners also got their seasons on track at TPC Scottsdale. Trevor Immelman and Brendan Steele gained significant ground in the season-long race, moving up 46 and 45 spots respectively.

Immelman, who capped off his first fully-healthy season since 2006 with back-to-back top 10s in the 2011 fall series, has made two of three cuts this year and sits comfortably at No. 55 in the standings after last week's tie for 12th. Steele, fresh off a rookie campaign that featured a victory at the Valero Texas Open, tied for 5th in the desert and is now 31st in the latest standings.

The most significant move of the week, however, may belong to Kyle Stanley. Seven days after a 72nd-hole collapse and playoff bogey cost him his first PGA TOUR title, Stanley bounced back to win the Waste Management Phoenix Open and move up five spots to claim the top spot in the FedExCup standings. Stanley is the third leader of the year, following Steve Stricker and Johnson Wagner, who had his name atop the standings for the last three weeks.

Looking for a similar bounceback this week will be Spencer Levin. The 27-year-old entered Sunday's final round at TPC Scottsdale six shots clear of his nearest competitor on the leaderboard. At the end of the day, he was tied for third but moving from 54th to 11th in the FedExCup race. Levin heads to Pebble Beach, where he finished tied for fourth last year, to compete at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Below are the biggest movers -- both up and down -- after the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open.