PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Ian Poulter is back among the top 100 in the world. He has gone over $1.25 million for the year. He doesn’t have to worry about keeping his PGA Tour card next year.

Poulter never imagined all this two weeks ago.

He was playing on a major medical extension from a foot injury last year and had 10 tournaments to earn enough money or FedEx Cup points to keep full status. Poulter fell short when he missed the cut in his 10th start at the Texas Open, and he figured he would be stuck asking for exemptions the rest of the year.

That’s when a clerical oversight — discovered by Brian Gay — saved him.

The PGA Tour changed its FedEx Cup points distribution that mainly affected the middle of the leaderboard, but players on medical extensions are supposed to play under the same set of rules as when injury sidelined them. Poulter not only got his card back, but the extra points put him in The Players Championship.