By Greg Robertson
ESPN Golf Online
Sunday, October 1

	Top 30 (Tour Championship)
	Rank	Player	Earnings
	26	Chris Perry	$1,293,849
	27	Rocco Mediate	$1,290,741
	28	Bob May	$1,271,742
	29	Rory Sabbatini	$1,247,900
	30	David Toms	$1,240,795
	31	Scott Hoch	$1,215,062
	32	Shigeki Maruyama	$1,179,354
	33	John Huston	$1,107,063
	34	Tom Scherrer	$1,105,898
	35	Greg Chalmers	$1,054,276

Nick Price came up short at the Buick Challenge, losing by two strokes to David Duval. But Price did win a trip to the Tour Championship in a month.

Price, who entered the week as the player on the bubble at No. 30 on the money list, sealed his position in the top 30 with his tie for second, jumping eight spots to No. 22 with just three tournaments remaining to qualify for the $5 million tournament.

Price was the only player to make a significant move within the top 30 during a week in which nobody cracked the list. Duval moved from No. 11 to No. 6 and became the seventh player to crack $2 million in earnings for the season, but he was already secure in his Tour Championship position.

David Toms becomes the new player on the bubble this week, having dropped from No. 28. Even though he was the defending champion at the Buick Classic, Toms missed the cut this year and finds himself about $25,000 ahead of Scott Hoch for the final spot in the Tour Championship field.

Hoch could have been even closer. Although he tied for fifth at the Buick, Hoch bogeyed the final hole, a mistake which cost him fifth place all to himself and approximately $15,000 in prize money. That could prove to be a costly bogey in three weeks.

	Top 125 (Exempt for 2001)
	Rank	Player	Earnings
	121	Scott McCarron	$336,194
	122	John Cook	$333,923
	123	Kevin Wentworth	$327,205
	124	Brandt Jobe	$324,177
	125	Tom Byrum	$322,951
	126	Bradley Hughes	$321,109
	127	Rick Fehr	$313,701
	128	Shaun Micheel	$313,517
	129	Joey Sindelar	$313,390
	130	Bob Tway	$309,487
	131	x-Gabriel Hjertstedt	$296,189
	132	K.J. Choi	$292,058
	133	Dave Stockton Jr.	$283,371
	134	Barry Cheesman	$277,918
	135	x-Nick Faldo	$271,687

Greg Chalmers, Jeff Maggert and Grant Waite all had good weeks at the Buick and all cracked the $1 million mark for the season, but at Nos. 35, 36 and 38 on the money list respectively, each of them is still about $200,000 shy of Toms.

Meanwhile, the chase for the top 125 and the right to play again in 2001 saw nobody make the jump this week. Tom Byrum, who began the week on the bubble, remains there for another week with $322,951. Byrum missed the cut at the Buick by six shots, the same fate as many of the players around him on the money list.

Two winners this week were Paul Goydos and Doug Dunakey, who locked up their playing cards for 2001. Goydos tied for 10th at Callaway Gardens and jumped from No. 118 to No. 106 on the money list, while Dunakey moved from No. 117 to No. 110.

Among those who probably lost a little sleep as a result of the Buick were Kevin Wentworth, Joey Sindelar and Bob Tway.

Wentworth shot an opening-round 69, then ballooned to a 75 on Friday to miss the cut by one shot. That left him at No. 123 on the money list. Tway, the former PGA champion at No. 130 on the list, suffered a similar fate. Some late bogeys on Friday left him missing the cut by one shot.

Sindelar moved up just one place from No. 130, but he was in second place during the second round. But he lost five shots over the back nine, then shot 71-73 on the weekend to finish well back in the pack.