User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2004


 * – Denotes a player who finished in the top 125 of the money list.

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2004.


 * 1. Winners of PGA Championship or U.S. Open prior to 1970 or in the last 10 calendar years (Beginning in 1998, this is a five-year exemption.)


 * 🇿🇦 Ernie Els* (2008) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk* (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III* (2008) – moves to cat 2 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Shaun Micheel* (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 David Toms* (2008) – moves to cat 9 in 2007
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods* (2008) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Rich Beem (2007)
 * 🇦🇺 Steve Elkington (2007) – moves to cat 2 in 2006
 * 🇿🇦 Retief Goosen* (2007) – moves to cat 9 in 2007
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Brooks (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Jones (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Corey Pavin* (2005)
 * 🇿🇼 Nick Price* – to cat 10 for 2005

Vijay Singh was promoted to this category after his PGA Championship win and earned an exemption through 2009. Goosen extended his exemption to 2009 with his U.S. Open win and would stay in cat 1.

Els extended his exemption to 2009, in which year he would fall to cat 9. Toms and Woods also extended theirs to 2009.


 * 2. Winners of the THE PLAYERS Championship in the last 10 calendar years. (Beginning In 1998, this is a five-year exemption.)


 * 🇺🇸 Fred Couples* (2007) – moves to cat 9 in 2007
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Norman (2007) – moves to cat 5 in 2005
 * 🇳🇿 Craig Perks (2007)
 * 🇺🇸 David Duval (2006) – moves to cat 4 in 2005
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Janzen* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Hal Sutton (2005)

Adam Scott was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2009.


 * 3. Winners of the Masters Tournament in the last 10 calendar years. (Beginning in 1998, this is a five-year exemption.)


 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh* (2008) – moves to cat 8 in 2006
 * 🇨🇦 Mike Weir* (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crenshaw (2005)
 * 🇪🇸 José María Olazábal

Nick Faldo declined membership. Ben Crenshaw mostly retired from the PGA Tour after turning 50 in January 2002.

Phil Mickelson was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2009.

Weir extended his extension to 2009, in which year he would fall to cat 9. Olazábal finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status for 2005.


 * 4. Winners of the British Open in the last 10 calendar years (1990-present). (Beginning In 1998, this is a five-year exemption.)


 * 🇺🇸 Ben Curtis (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Leonard* (2008) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Lehman* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 John Daly* (2005)

Paul Lawrie declined membership.

Todd Hamilton was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2009.

Daly extended his extension to 2006, in which year he would fall to cat 9.


 * 5. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 calendar years. (Beginning in 1998, this is a three-year exemption.)


 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson* (2006)


 * 6. THE TOUR Championship winners in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner


 * 🇺🇸 Chad Campbell* (2006)

Campbell extended his extension to 2007, in which year he would fall to cat 9.


 * 7. Winners of World Golf Championship events, beginning in 1999 (a three-year exemption)


 * Darren Clarke* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Craig Parry* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Sutherland* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker

Stewart Cink was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2007.

Parry extended his extension to 2006, in which year he would fall to cat 9.

Stricker finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status for 2005.


 * 8. The leader in PGA TOUR official earnings in each of the last five calendar years


 * 9. Winners of PGA TOUR cosponsored or approved events (except team events) within the last two calendar years, or during the current year; winners receive an additional year of exemption for each additional win, up to five years.


 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Perry* (2007)
 * 🇦🇺 Stuart Appleby* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Armour III* (2005)
 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crane* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Flesch* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Hoch* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 John Huston* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Jacobsen (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Kaye* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Jerry Kelly* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 J. L. Lewis* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Frank Lickliter* (2005)
 * 🇯🇵 Shigeki Maruyama* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Len Mattiace (2005)
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini* (2005)
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Stadler (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Kirk Triplett* (2005)
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Tway* (2005)
 * 🇦🇺 Robert Allenby* – to cat 10 for 2005
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Burns
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd*
 * 🇦🇷 José Cóceres*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris DiMarco* – to cat 10 for 2005
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald*
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Durant*
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Estes*
 * 🇺🇸 Dan Forsman
 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García*
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Gogel*
 * 🇺🇸 J. P. Hayes
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III* – to cat 10 for 2005
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar
 * 🇨🇦 Ian Leggatt
 * 🇺🇸 Spike McRoy
 * 🇺🇸 Rocco Mediate
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Riley*
 * 🇺🇸 Loren Roberts*
 * 🇺🇸 John Rollins*
 * 🇺🇸 Gene Sauers
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Sluman*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Smith*
 * 🇳🇿 Phil Tataurangi

Not including Todd Hamilton and Stewart Cink, who subsequently moved into higher categories after more prestigious wins, fourteen players moved into this category during the season. Sergio García earned an exemption through 2007 with multiple wins.

Burns and Kuchar finished in the 126–150 range and, unsuccessful at Q School, settled for conditional status in 2005.

Forsman, Hayes, Leggatt, McRoy, Mediate, Sauers, and Tataurangi finished outside the top 150. Mediate used a top 50 career money exemption for 2005. Leggatt and Tataurangi received medical extensions. Hayes was successful in Q School. Forsman, McRoy, and Sauers fell to past champion status (for good).


 * 10a. Members of the last-named U.S. Presidents Cup team


 * 🇺🇸 Fred Funk* – remains in cat for 2005
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Haas* – remains in cat for 2005


 * 10b. Members of the last-named International Presidents Cup team


 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark* – remains in cat for 2005
 * 🇦🇺 Stephen Leaney* (first-time member) – remains in cat for 2005
 * 🇦🇺 Peter Lonard* – remains in cat for 2005


 * 10c. Members of the last-named U.S. Ryder Cup team


 * 🇺🇸 Paul Azinger
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Calcavecchia*
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Verplank*

Azinger finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status for 2005.


 * 10d. Members of the last-named European Ryder Cup team


 * 🇩🇪 Bernhard Langer*
 * 🇸🇪 Jesper Parnevik*


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 🇺🇸 Mark O'Meara

O'Meara received a minor medical extension.


 * 19. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Tom Watson

Watson focused on the senior tour.


 * 20. Top 125 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Brad Faxon*
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird*
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Herron*
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Petrovic*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Gamez*
 * 🇺🇸 Woody Austin*
 * 🇦🇺 Geoff Ogilvy*
 * 🇿🇦 Brenden Pappas
 * 🇺🇸 Scott McCarron*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Pernice Jr.*
 * 🇺🇸 Duffy Waldorf*
 * 🇩🇪 Alex Čejka*
 * 🇦🇺 Rod Pampling*
 * 🇯🇵 Hidemichi Tanaka*
 * 🇺🇸 Skip Kendall*
 * 🇹🇹 Stephen Ames*
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley*
 * 🇸🇪 Carl Pettersson*
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Lowery*
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Mayfair
 * 🇺🇸 Heath Slocum*
 * 🇺🇸 Glen Day
 * 🇺🇸 Brett Quigley*
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar*
 * 🇺🇸 David Gossett
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Maggert*
 * 🇺🇸 Cliff Kresge
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Goydos
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Stankowski
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Jobe
 * 🇺🇸 Joey Sindelar*
 * 🇺🇸 David Peoples
 * 🇵🇾 Carlos Franco*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Henry*
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Andrade*
 * 🇺🇸 Dean Wilson
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Brehaut
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Barlow
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Williamson*
 * 🇺🇸 Todd Fischer*
 * 🇺🇸 Arron Oberholser*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Sheehan*
 * 🇦🇺 Stephen Allan*
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Beckman*
 * 🇺🇸 Marco Dawson
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Byrum*
 * 🇺🇸 Neal Lancaster*
 * 🇺🇸 Brent Geiberger*
 * 🇿🇦 David Frost
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Damron*
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Magee
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez*
 * 🇺🇸 Notah Begay III
 * 🇸🇪 Richard S. Johnson
 * 🇺🇸 Kent Jones*
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Bates
 * 🇨🇦 Glen Hnatiuk
 * 🇲🇽 Esteban Toledo

Barlow, Begay, Wilson, Pappas, Day, Mayfair, Peoples, Johnson, Brehaut, and Stankowski finished in the 126–150 range. Mayfair used a top 50 career money exemption. Begay and Stankowski received major medical extensions, and Barlow and Peoples minors. Barlow, Wilson, and Brehaut were successful in Q School, while Pappas, Day, and Johnson fell to the conditional category for 2005.

Frost, Bates, Kresge, Jobe, Toledo, Hnatiuk, Dawson, Gossett, Goydos, and Magee finished outside the top 150. Jobe, Hnatiuk, Dawson, Goydos, and Magee received medical extensions. The others all fell short at Q School; Frost and Gossett fell to past champion status (for good), while Bates, Kresge, and Toledo became non-members (only Kresge would reach the PGA Tour again).


 * 21. Non-member top 125


 * 🇺🇸 Hank Kuehne* (first-time member)
 * 🇸🇪 Freddie Jacobson* (first-time member)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose* (first-time member)
 * 🇩🇰 Thomas Bjørn* (first-time member)
 * 🇸🇪 Niclas Fasth

Pádraig Harrington declined membership.

Bjørn played only 12 tournaments and lost his membership. Fasth finished outside the top 150 and became a non-member; he would not reach the PGA Tour again.


 * 22. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Chris Perry (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Dudley Hart* (7)
 * 🇺🇸 John Cook (19)
 * 🇺🇸 Joel Edwards (6)
 * 🇺🇸 David Berganio Jr. (14)
 * 🇿🇦 Fulton Allem (14)

Hart met his terms in April. Cook's extension expired in October and he fell to past champion status; he elected to use a top 50 career money exemption for 2005. Edwards's expired in July and he fell to past champion status (for good). Perry, Berganio, and Allem received carry-overs.

John Riegger was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in January, but would end up needing another medical extension for 2005. Tag Ridings was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in October and finished in the top 125.


 * 23. Nationwide Tour leading money-winner


 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Carter (rookie)

Carter finished outside the top 150, came up short at Q School, and became a non-member in 2005 (never to regain membership).


 * Medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Moore (26)

Moore received a carry-over.


 * 25. Q School top 30, Nationwide Tour 2-20


 * 🇸🇪 Mathias Grönberg (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Ogilvie*
 * 🇺🇸 Danny Ellis
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Allen*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Couch
 * 🇺🇸 David Branshaw (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt*
 * 🇺🇸 John Riegger
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer* (rookie)
 * 🇸🇪 Daniel Chopra* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Mark Hensby*
 * 🇺🇸 Omar Uresti
 * 🇺🇸 Tripp Isenhour
 * 🇺🇸 John Maginnes
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Bohn (rookie)
 * 🇮🇳 Arjun Atwal (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Wes Short Jr. (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Vaughn Taylor* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kris Cox (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Blaine McCallister
 * 🇿🇦 Tjaart van der Walt (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Andre Stolz* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Bateman*
 * 🇺🇸 Guy Boros
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Duke (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Purdy*
 * 🇺🇸 Dan Olsen (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. Brigman (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Muncrief (rookie)
 * 🇨🇦 David Morland IV
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Kortan (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Bowden
 * 🇺🇸 Russ Cochran
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Tolles
 * 🇺🇸 Todd Hamilton* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Pate
 * 🇺🇸 Rich Barcelo (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Roger Tambellini (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Scott Hend (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Boyd Summerhays (rookie)
 * 🇳🇦 Trevor Dodds
 * 🇯🇵 Hirofumi Miyase (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Roland Thatcher (rookie)
 * 🇿🇦 Deane Pappas
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Delsing
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay*
 * 🇳🇿 Grant Waite
 * 🇺🇸 Danny Briggs

Riegger met the terms of his medical extension in January and was promoted to the major medical category, but would end up needing another medical extension for 2005.

Those who finished in the 126–150 range were Bohn, Grönberg, Glover, Hend, Bowden, Ellis, and Atwal. Bohn, Glover, and Hend were successful at Q School, Grönberg, Bowden, Ellis, and Atwal had to settle for conditional status.

Briggs, Brigman, Pappas, Uresti, Dufner, Duke, Branshaw, Thatcher, Waite, Tambellini, Barcelo, Cox, Pate, Delsing, Cochran, Morland, McCallister, Miyase, Kortan, Tolles, van der Walt, Olsen, Boros, Couch, Isenhour, Short, Dodds, Summerhays, Maginnes, and Muncrief finished outside the top 150. Van der Walt, Short, Summerhays, and Maginnes received major medical extensions, and Isenhour a minor. Briggs, Brigman, Uresti, and Thatcher were successful in Q School. Waite, Pate, Delsing, Cochran, McCallister, Boros, and Dodds settled for past champion status (for good). The other 14 became non-members; Pappas, Morland, Miyase, Kortan, Tolles, Olsen, and Muncrief would not reach the PGA Tour again.


 * Reshuffle medical


 * 🇺🇸 Brian Watts (16)
 * 🇺🇸 Bart Bryant* (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Green (22)
 * 🇺🇸 Joel Kribel (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Tag Ridings* (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Brad Lardon (21)

Bryant's win came in his 18th start. Ridings met his terms in October and was promoted to the major medical category. Kribel's extension expired in August and he became a non-member, and would not reach the PGA Tour again. Watts, Green, and Lardon received carry-overs.


 * 26. Three-time Nationwide Tour winners in the current year


 * 27. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Tom Gillis (1)
 * 🇦🇺 James McLean (10)

Gillis had conditional status as a backup, but made no starts and received a carry-over (and also made it through Q School). McLean also received a carry-over.


 * 28. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇸🇪 Per-Ulrik Johansson
 * 🇺🇸 Dicky Pride
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Wilson
 * 🇺🇸 Olin Browne
 * 🇫🇷 Thomas Levet
 * 🇺🇸 Garrett Willis
 * 🇺🇸 Dennis Paulson*
 * 🇺🇸 David Sutherland
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Heinen
 * 🇺🇸 Aaron Barber
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John E. Morgan
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Chalmers
 * 🇺🇸 Carl Paulson
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Grob

One player finished inside the top 125. Browne and Morgan finished in the 126–150 range and, unsuccessful at Q School, remained in the conditional category for 2005.

The remaining players all finished outside the top 150. Levet made the Ryder Cup team and was eligible for category 10 status in 2005. Johansson received a medical extension. Wilson and Carl Paulson made it through Q School. Pride, Heinen, and Willis fell to past champion status in 2005 (for good, in Heinen's case). Sutherland, Barber, Chalmers, and Grob became non-members; only Chalmers would ever regain status.


 * 29. Non-exempt medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Bob May (15)
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Tryba (11)
 * 🇳🇿 Frank Nobilo (22)

All three received carry-overs.

Only two past champions finished in the top 200 of the money list:
 * Notable past champions


 * 🇺🇸 Bill Glasson
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Simpson

Glasson and Jim Carter made it through Q School. Simpson would never regain better status.

The following non-members finished the equivalent of top 200 on the money list, including earnings in WGCs (^ denotes those eligible for full PGA Tour membership in 2005):
 * Notable non-members


 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Westwood^
 * 🇦🇷 Ángel Cabrera
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter^
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas
 * 🇮🇪 Paul McGinley
 * 🇿🇦 Trevor Immelman
 * Colin Montgomerie
 * 🇪🇸 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Phillip Price
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Barry Lane

Harrington, Westwood, Casey, and Poulter accepted membership for 2005. Harrington and Casey accepted STM in May, and Poulter in August. Signs point towards the Ryder and Presidents Cup exemptions only applying to players who were already PGA Tour members or STMs at the time of selection, which would be why Casey and Poulter (neither of whom cracked the non-member top 125) and Harrington were eligible for that category, while Westwood did not accept STM in 2005 and landed in the non-member top 125 category rather than the Ryder Cup category. In the brief lifespan of the Ryder and Presidents Cup exemptions, Casey and Poulter were the only non-members to land in that category without also cracking the non-member top 125.

Price made it through Q School, while Haas and Villegas did not.

Twenty-seven players not listed made it from the Nationwide Tour to the PGA Tour for 2005 (including Japan Golf Tour winner Brendan Jones; 20 via the money list, 7 via Q School). Besides Price, eleven players with no PGA Tour or Nationwide Tour status in 2004 made it through Q School (including European Tour players Brian Davis, Greg Owen, and Rob Rashell, Japan Golf Tour winner Hideto Tanihara, and Asian Tour winner Charlie Wi).
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