User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2005


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

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2005.


 * 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* (2009) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇿🇦 Retief Goosen* (2009)
 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh* (2009)
 * 🇺🇸 David Toms* (2009) – moves to cat 9 in 2007
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods* (2009) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk* (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III* (2008) – moves to cat 2 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 Shaun Micheel (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Rich Beem* (2007)
 * 🇦🇺 Steve Elkington* (2007) – moves to cat 2 in 2006
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Brooks (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Jones (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Corey Pavin*

Phil Mickelson was promoted to this category after his PGA Championship win and earned an exemption through 2010.

Singh and Goosen extended their exemptions to 2010, in which year both would fall to cat 9. Woods extended his to 2010, and would move to cat 3 in 2008. Toms extended his to 2010. Furyk extended his to 2009, in which year he would fall to cat 9.


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


 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Couples* (2007) – moves to cat 9 in 2007
 * 🇳🇿 Craig Perks (2007)
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Janzen
 * 🇺🇸 Hal Sutton

Fred Funk was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2010.

Janzen and Sutton finished outside the top 150. Both used career money exemptions for 2006 (top 50 and top 25, respectively).


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


 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson* (2009)
 * 🇨🇦 Mike Weir* (2009) – moves to cat 9 in 2009
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crenshaw

Nick Faldo declined membership. Ben Crenshaw mostly retired from the PGA Tour after turning 50 in January 2002 and fell to past champion status for good in 2006.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Todd Hamilton (2009)
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Curtis (2008)
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Leonard* (2008) – moves to cat 9 in 2008
 * 🇺🇸 John Daly* (2006) – moves to cat 9 in 2006
 * 🇺🇸 David Duval (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Lehman* (2006)

Leonard extended his extension to 2010.


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


 * 🇦🇺 Greg Norman (2007)


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


 * 🇺🇸 Chad Campbell* (2007) – moves to cat 9 in 2007

Bart Bryant was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2008.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink* (2007)
 * Darren Clarke* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Craig Parry* (2006) – moves to cat 9 in 2006
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Sutherland*


 * 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.


 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García* (2007)
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Perry* (2007)
 * 🇹🇹 Stephen Ames* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Stuart Appleby* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Woody Austin* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Bart Bryant* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd* (2006)
 * 🇵🇾 Carlos Franco* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Brent Geiberger (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Flesch* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Funk* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Mark Hensby* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Kaye* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Rod Pampling* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Joey Sindelar* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Heath Slocum* (2006)
 * 🇦🇺 Andre Stolz (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Vaughn Taylor* (2006)
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Armour III*
 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi*
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crane*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Hoch
 * 🇺🇸 John Huston*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Jacobsen
 * 🇺🇸 Jerry Kelly*
 * 🇺🇸 J. L. Lewis*
 * 🇺🇸 Frank Lickliter
 * 🇯🇵 Shigeki Maruyama*
 * 🇺🇸 Len Mattiace
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini*
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Stadler
 * 🇺🇸 Kirk Triplett
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Tway*

Fourteen players moved into this category during the season. Pádraig Harrington earned an exemption through 2008 with multiple wins. Perry extended his exemption to 2009; García extended his to 2008.

Hoch received a major medical extension, and Triplett and Jacobsen minors. Stadler focused on the senior tour and fell to past champion status for good in 2006. Lickliter finished finished in the 126–150 range and was successful at Q School. Mattiace finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status (for good).


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


 * 🇺🇸 Chris DiMarco* – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Haas – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III*


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


 * 🇦🇺 Robert Allenby*
 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark*
 * 🇦🇺 Stephen Leaney*
 * 🇦🇺 Peter Lonard*
 * 🇿🇼 Nick Price*


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


 * 🇺🇸 Chris Riley – stays in cat 10 for 2006


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey (first-time member) – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald* – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington* (first-time member) – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🇫🇷 Thomas Levet – stays in cat 10 for 2006
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter* (first-time member) – stays in cat 10 for 2006

Casey played only 10 events and lost membership for 2006.


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇺🇸 John Cook
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Kite
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Mayfair*
 * 🇺🇸 Rocco Mediate*

Cook and Kite finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status (for good, in Kite's case).


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 19. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Hale Irwin
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Watson

Both focused on the senior tour.


 * 20. Top 125 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Scott Verplank*
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Herron*
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Purdy*
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt*
 * 🇸🇪 Jesper Parnevik*
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Maggert*
 * 🇺🇸 Duffy Waldorf
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Pernice Jr.*
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar*
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Ogilvie*
 * 🇸🇪 Carl Pettersson*
 * 🇺🇸 Arron Oberholser*
 * 🇩🇪 Alex Čejka
 * 🇸🇪 Freddie Jacobson*
 * 🇦🇺 Geoff Ogilvy*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Sheehan*
 * 🇺🇸 Skip Kendall
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Petrovic*
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Lowery*
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Estes*
 * 🇺🇸 Brad Faxon*
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Sluman*
 * 🇺🇸 Loren Roberts*
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Durant*
 * 🇩🇪 Bernhard Langer*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Damron*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Bateman
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na*
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Allen
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Byrum
 * 🇺🇸 Dudley Hart*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Henry*
 * 🇺🇸 Todd Fischer*
 * 🇺🇸 Brett Quigley*
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Gogel
 * 🇺🇸 Hank Kuehne*
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan
 * 🇯🇵 Hidemichi Tanaka*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott McCarron*
 * 🇦🇷 José Cóceres
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Beckman
 * 🇸🇪 Daniel Chopra*
 * 🇺🇸 John Rollins*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Gamez*
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez*
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Calcavecchia*
 * 🇺🇸 Neal Lancaster
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Smith
 * 🇺🇸 Dennis Paulson
 * 🇺🇸 Kent Jones*
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Williamson
 * 🇦🇺 Stephen Allan
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay*
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley*
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Andrade*
 * 🇺🇸 Tag Ridings*

Baird, Allen, Mahan, Lancaster, Čejka, and Bateman finished in the 126–150 range. Allen, Mahan, Čejka, and Bateman were successful in Q School, while Baird and Lancaster fell to the conditional category for 2006.

Beckman, Waldorf, Smith, Allan, Williamson, Gogel, Byrum, Cóceres, Paulson, and Kendall finished outside the top 150. Williamson received a medical extension. Byrum was successful in Q School. Beckman, Waldorf, Smith, Gogel, Cóceres, Paulson, and Kendall fell to past champion status (for good, in the cases of Smith, Gogel, Paulson, and Kendall), while Allan became a non-member.


 * 21. Non-member top 125


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Westwood

Westwood finished in the 125–150 range and fell to the conditional category for 2006.


 * 22. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Chris Perry (22)
 * 🇺🇸 Notah Begay III (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Stankowski (15)
 * 🇳🇿 Phil Tataurangi (21)
 * 🇺🇸 David Berganio Jr. (12)
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Magee (29)
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Jobe* (20)
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Goydos (27)
 * 🇨🇦 Ian Leggatt (24)
 * 🇨🇦 Glen Hnatiuk (20)
 * 🇺🇸 John Riegger (12)
 * 🇺🇸 Marco Dawson (23)
 * 🇿🇦 Fulton Allem (1)

Begay's extension expired in August and he fell to the conditional category. Magee's extension expired in October apparently; he theoretically should've fallen to the non-exempt medical category, but did not enter the only remaining full-field event. He finished in the 126–150 range and had conditional status for 2006. Jobe met his terms in April. Hnatiuk's expired in September and he became a non-member, never to regain membership. Dawson used his last start at the final full-field event of the season, finished in the 126–150 range, and made it through Q School. Allem's extension expired in April and he fell to past champion status (for good). Perry, Stankowski, Tataurangi, Berganio, Goydos, Leggatt, and Riegger received carry-overs; Leggatt also made it through Q School.

Craig Barlow and Tom Gillis were promoted to this category after meeting their terms in January; Barlow finished in the top 125, but Gillis finished outside the top 150, fell short at Q School, and became a non-member in 2006. Mark O'Meara was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in May, but ultimately finished outside the top 150 and used a top 50 career money exemption for 2006. Tjaart van der Walt was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in August; he finished in the 126–150 range, fell short at Q School, and ended up in the conditional category for 2006.


 * 23. Nationwide Tour leading money-winner


 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker (rookie)

Walker received a medical extension for 2006.


 * Medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Moore (12)

Moore received a carry-over.


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Davis* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 D. A. Points (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Rob Rashell (rookie)
 * 🇯🇵 Ryuji Imada* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Danny Briggs
 * 🇺🇸 Franklin Langham
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Claxton
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Brendan Jones (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Glasson
 * 🇺🇸 James Driscoll* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 John Elliott
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Warren*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greg Owen* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Bolli (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Bohn*
 * 🇺🇸 Brett Wetterich
 * 🇺🇸 Roland Thatcher
 * 🇦🇺 Paul Gow
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. Trahan* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Bradley Hughes
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Davidson (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Stadler (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. Brigman
 * 🇦🇺 Euan Walters (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Allred (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Darron Stiles
 * 🇺🇸 Joey Snyder III* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Haas
 * 🇺🇸 Dean Wilson*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Gutschewski (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Carter
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Anderson
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Phillip Price (rookie)
 * 🇳🇿 Michael Long
 * 🇺🇸 Carl Paulson
 * 🇦🇺 Gavin Coles
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Brehaut*
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Heintz
 * 🇯🇵 Hideto Tanihara (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Mario Tiziani (rookie)
 * 🇨🇦 David Hearn (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Omar Uresti
 * 🇺🇸 J. P. Hayes
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Wilson
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Barlow*
 * 🇺🇸 Doug Barron*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Gillis
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover*
 * 🇰🇷 Charlie Wi (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Scott Hend
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Hart
 * 🇺🇸 Will MacKenzie (rookie)

Barlow and Gillis met the terms of their medicals in January and were promoted to the major medical category; Barlow finished in the top 125, but Gillis finished outside the top 150, fell short at Q School, and became a non-member in 2006.

Those who finished in the 126–150 range were Watney, Wetterich, Mark Wilson, Uresti, Hayes, Stiles, Jones, and Gutschewski. Watney and Wetterich were successful at Q School; Mark Wilson, Uresti, Hayes, Stiles, Jones, and Gutschewski had to settle for conditional status.

Price, Points, Langham, Haas, Stadler, Coles, Hend, Heintz, Thatcher, Gow, Brigman, MacKenzie, Anderson, Claxton, Wi, Bolli, Paulson, Hearn, Tiziani, Long, Allred, Briggs, Hart, Glasson, Carter, Davidson, Rashell, Hughes, Elliott, Tanihara, and Walters finished outside the top 150. Paulson received a major medical extension, and Coles a minor. Points, MacKenzie, and Glasson were successful in Q School. Carter settled for past champion status (for good). The other 25 became non-members; Price, Langham, Hend, Anderson, Tiziani, Long, Briggs, Hart, Davidson, Rashell, Hughes, Elliott, Tanihara, and Walters have not reached the PGA Tour again.


 * Reshuffle medical


 * 🇿🇦 Tjaart van der Walt (17)
 * 🇺🇸 Wes Short Jr.* (17)
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Green (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Brad Lardon (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Boyd Summerhays (21)
 * 🇺🇸 John Maginnes (17)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Watts (7)

Short's win came in his 14th start. Van der Walt was promoted to the major medical category after meeting his terms in August; he finished in the 126–150 range, fell short at Q School, and ended up in the conditional category for 2006. Green's extension expired in July and he fell to past champion status (for good). Lardon and Maginnes both used their last start in the final full-field event of the season; both finished outside the top 150, became non-members for 2006, and would not reach the PGA Tour again. Watts's extension expired in August; he became a non-member and would not reach the PGA Tour again. Summerhays received a carry-over.


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

One player achieved this:


 * 🇺🇸 Jason Gore*


 * 27. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 David Peoples (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Mark O'Meara (8)
 * 🇺🇸 Tripp Isenhour (7)
 * 🇦🇺 James McLean (9)

Peoples's extension expired in May and he fell to the conditional category; he finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status in 2006 (for good). O'Meara met his terms in May and moved to the major medical category, but ultimately finished outside the top 150 and used a top 50 career money exemption for 2006. Isenhour used his last start at the final full-field event of the season; he finished outside the top 150, fell short at Q School, and became a non-member in 2006. McLean received a carry-over.


 * 28. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Paul Azinger
 * 🇺🇸 Olin Browne*
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Burns
 * 🇸🇪 Mathias Grönberg
 * 🇿🇦 Brenden Pappas
 * 🇺🇸 Glen Day
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar
 * 🇪🇸 José María Olazábal*
 * 🇺🇸 Craig Bowden
 * 🇺🇸 Danny Ellis
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John E. Morgan
 * 🇮🇳 Arjun Atwal*
 * 🇸🇪 Richard S. Johnson*

Four players finished inside the top 125, including one winner. The remaining players all finished outside the top 150. Azinger used a top 50 career money exemption for 2006. Grönberg and Ellis made it through Q School. Begay (who fell to this category after his medical extension expired), Burns, Day, and Kuchar fell to past champion status in 2006 (for good, in Burns's case). Pappas, Bowden, and Morgan became non-members; Morgan would never regain status.


 * 29. Non-exempt medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Bob May (15)
 * 🇳🇿 Frank Nobilo (22)
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Tryba (2)
 * 🇸🇪 Per-Ulrik Johansson (7)

Tryba's extension expired in September and he fell to past champion status (for good). Johansson's also expired in September; he became a non-member and would not reach the PGA Tour again. May and Nobilo received carry-overs.

The following past champions finished in the top 200 of the money list:
 * Notable past champions


 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker
 * 🇺🇸 Jay Delsing
 * 🇺🇸 Dan Forsman
 * 🇺🇸 Larry Mize

Greg Kraft made it through Q School. Of those listed above, only Stricker 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 2006):
 * Notable non-members


 * 🇳🇿 Michael Campbell^
 * Colin Montgomerie^
 * Graeme McDowell^
 * 🇦🇺 Nick O'Hern^
 * 🇩🇰 Thomas Bjørn^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Howell^
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore^
 * 🇿🇦 Trevor Immelman^
 * 🇮🇪 Paul McGinley
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Stenson
 * 🇦🇷 Ángel Cabrera
 * 🇦🇺 Richard Green
 * 🇪🇸 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Putnam
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Dunlap
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nick Faldo^

Campbell did not accept membership after his win, nor at the start of 2006; Montgomerie, Bjørn, and Faldo also declined membership. McDowell, O'Hern, Howell, Moore, and Immelman accepted membership for 2006. McDowell accepted STM in March, O'Hern in June, Immelman in August, and Moore in September.

None listed above made it through Q School; only Putnam and Dunlap tried.

Twenty-six players not listed made it from the Nationwide Tour to the PGA Tour for 2006 (20 via the money list, 6 via Q School). Besides Price, nine players with no PGA Tour or Nationwide Tour status in 2005 made it through Q School (including Japan Golf Tour winner Daisuke Maruyama).
 * Other notes