Harrington is on course to make the the season-ending Tour Championship

Padraig Harrington and Ian Poulter are in the running to earn places in the Tour Championship in two weeks' time.

Five other European players have made it into this week's BMW Championship in Illinois, the third leg of the FedEx Cup play-off series.

The four-tournament play-offs see the fields cut from 125 to 100 to 70 and to 30 for the closing Tour Championship.

Harrington is seventh in the standings, but Poulter is 30th, Luke Donald 32nd, Paul Casey 36th and Brian Davis 53rd.

Fellow Europeans Sergio Garcia and Fredrik Jacobson are 55th and 56th respectively.

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Among those who dropped out after the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday were Greg Owen (77th), Justin Rose (85th), Richard S Johnson (91st) and Daniel Chopra (97th), as well as last year's FedEx Cup winner, Vijay Singh.

Steve Stricker's victory in Boston lifted him above Tiger Woods in the FedEx Cup standings, with 5,605 points to Woods's 4,696.

Stricker has also moved up to number two in the world rankings behind runaway world number one Woods, with Casey fourth.

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