Philadelphia, PA (Best E Casino) - Camilo Villegas won his second straight PGA Tour event Sunday and jumped to a career-best No. 7 in this week's Official World Golf Rankings. His moved created lots of change to the top 20, however the top five remained the same. Tiger Woods is still No. 1 and was again followed by Phil Mickelson, FedEx Cup winner Vijay Singh, Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia. At the Tour Championship on Sunday, Anthony Kim shared third place with Mickelson behind Villegas and Garcia and that helped Kim improve four places to No. 6 this week. He was one spot ahead of Villegas. Ernie Els and Henrik Stenson fell two notches apiece to eight and nine. Jim Furyk slipped one to 10, while Steve Stricker tumbled three places to 11th. Lee Westwood was a playoff loser on the European Tour and he inched up a spot to 12th. Stewart Cink and Justin Rose were down two spaces apiece to 13 and 14 respectively. Adam Scott dipped one to 15, while K.J. Choi held steady in the 16th position. Geoff Ogilvy tumbled two places to 17th and was trailed by Robert Karlsson, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Kenny Perry, who held down the final three spots in the top 20 again this week.
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