Peter Lonard's disappointment at losing the New Orleans Classic by one to Argentina's Andres Romero will be eased by confirmation that he has made it into the field for next week's US Masters.
The Australian climbs to 46th in the world rankings on the day that the top 50 earn places at Augusta National.
Romero, whose victory came in just his 12th US Tour event, is up from 40th to 21st in the world.
Padraig Harrington, who finished fourth as he steps up his Masters preparations, remains the leading Irish player in 12th while Graeme McDowell is next best at 61st.
Latest leading positions:
1 Tiger Woods 21.53, 2 Phil Mickelson 9.71, 3 Ernie Els 6.46, 4 Steve Stricker 6.26, 5 Adam Scott 5.71, 6 Justin Rose 5.68, 7 KJ Choi 5.68, 8 Jim Furyk 5.63, 9 Vijay Singh 5.57, 10 Rory Sabbatini 5.36, 11 Geoff Ogilvy 5.35, 12 Padraig Harrington5.14, 13 Henrik Stenson 4.82, 14 Sergio Garcia 4.22, 15 Stewart Cink 4.20, 16 Luke Donald 4.19, 17 Angel Cabrera 3.99, 18 Aaron Baddeley 3.65, 19 Lee Westwood 3.65, 20 Zach Johnson 3.62
Other leading Europeans:
22 Niclas Fasth, 24 Ian Poulter, 26 Martin Kaymer, 33 Paul Casey, 45 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 47 Soren Hansen, 49 Robert Karlsson, 51 Anders Hansen, 52 Nick Dougherty, 61 Graeme McDowell, 66 Daniel Chopra, 69 Bradley Dredge, 72 Soren Kjeldsen, 73 Peter Hanson, 75 Colin Montgomerie, 78 Simon Dyson, 79 Carl Pettersson, 84 Peter Hedblom, 87 Steve Webster, 88 Ross Fisher, 89 Fredrik Jacobson, 96 Mikko Ilonen, 97 Ross McGowan, 98 Joost Luiten, 99 Johan Edfors.
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