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Tiger pulls further clear

Tiger Woods' lead at the top of the world rankings is now bigger than it has been for the past 12 months.

Woods won for the sixth time this year by a massive eight shots at the BMW Championship in Chicago.

South African James Kingston is up from 140th to 74th thanks to his play-off victory over Dane Anders Hansen at the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Cologne.

Latest leading positions:

1 Tiger Woods 16.04 points, 2 Steve Stricker 7.94, 3 Phil Mickelson 7.54, 4 Paul Casey 6.48, 5 Henrik Stenson 5.93, 6 Kenny Perry 5.90, 7 Sergio Garcia 5.84, 8 Padraig Harrington 5.72, 9 Jim Furyk

5.63, 10 Geoff Ogilvy 5.52, 11 Lee Westwood 5.19, 12 Stewart Cink 5.10, 13 Martin Kaymer 4.94, 14 Vijay Singh 4.62, 15 Sean O'Hair 4.42, 16 Camilo Villegas 4.42, 17 Lucas Glover 4.37, 18 Zach Johnson 4.29, 19 Retief Goosen 4.18, 20 Anthony Kim 4.10.

Other leading Europeans:

21 Ian Poulter, 22 Robert Karlsson, 24 Rory McIlroy, 26 Ross Fisher, 28 Luke Donald, 32 Soren Kjeldsen, 38 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 42 Soren Hansen, 43 Alvaro Quiros, 44 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, 45 Oliver Wilson, 46 Graeme McDowell, 50 Anders Hansen, 57 Justin Rose, 61 Chris Wood, 64 Peter Hanson, 66 Francesco Molinari, 75 Alexander Noren, 86 Nick Dougherty, 90 Simon Dyson, 95 Anthony Wall, 96 Thomas Levet.