Woods comfortable at top of world rankings

Tiger Woods enters his 10-week break from golf holding a lead of more than 14 points over Phil Mickelson in the world rankings.

Woods, who is taking time out to devote to his wife and baby daughter Sam, has now been world number one for a total of 463 weeks – 132 more than previous record holder Greg Norman.

His next appearance is the Target World Challenge, the tournament he promotes, in California on December 13-16.

6.03

Irelands' Padraig Harrington is in seventh on 5.95 points.

Latest leading positions:

1 Tiger Woods 23.69 points

2 Phil Mickelson 9.59

3 Jim Furyk 7.93

4 Steve Stricker 7.30

5 Ernie Els 7.07

6 Adam Scott 6.28

7 Padraig Harrington 5.95

8 Rory Sabbatini 5.75

9 KJ Choi 5.59

10 Sergio Garcia 5.56

11 Geoff Ogilvy 5.45

12 Vijay Singh 5.38

13 Justin Rose 5.01

14 Zach Johnson 4.84

15 Luke Donald 4.72

16 Henrik Stenson 4.65

17 Retief Goosen 4.01

18 Trevor Immelman 3.99

19 Aaron Baddeley 3.99

20 Angel Cabrera 3.95

Other leading Europeans:

21 Niclas Fasth

22 Paul Casey

27 Ian Poulter

35 Lee Westwood

45 Colin Montgomerie

46 Anders Hansen

48 Soren Hansen

49 Bradley Dredge

50 Robert Karlsson

52 Jose Maria Olazabal

53 Carl Pettersson

61 Miguel Angel Jimenez

65 Mikko Ilonen

66 Bernhard Langer

73 Raphael Jacquelin

78 Peter Hanson

82 Simon Dyson

87 Thomas Bjorn

88 Johan Edfors

95 Markus Brier

97 David Howell

100 Nick Dougherty