User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2012


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

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2012.


 * 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.)


 * 🇺🇸 Keegan Bradley* (2016)
 * Rory McIlroy* (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover (2015) – moves to cat 9 in 2015
 * Graeme McDowell* (2015)
 * 🇦🇷 Ángel Cabrera (2014) – moves to cat 3 in 2013
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods* (2014) – moves to cat 9 in 2014
 * 🇰🇷 Yang Yong-eun (2014)
 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington* (2013)

Martin Kaymer declined membership. Webb Simpson was promoted to this category after his U.S. Open win and earned an exemption through 2017.

McIlroy and Woods extended their exemptions to 2017. Bradley did the same; he would fall to cat 9 in 2017.


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


 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi* (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson* (2016) – moves to cat 3 in 2013 and cat 9 in 2016
 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark* (2015)
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Stenson* (2014)
 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García* (2013)

Matt Kuchar was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2017. Mickelson extended his exemption to 2017. García extended his to 2014, in which year he would fall to cat 9.


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


 * 🇿🇦 Charl Schwartzel* (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson* (2015) – moves to cat 9 in 2013
 * 🇿🇦 Trevor Immelman (2013)

Bubba Watson was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2017. Johnson extended his exemption to 2017.


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


 * 🇿🇦 Louis Oosthuizen* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink (2014)

Darren Clarke declined membership. Ernie Els was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2017.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas* (2016) – moves to cat 7 in 2015
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk* (2015) – moves to cat 7 in 2014

Brandt Snedeker was promoted to this category after his win, and earned an exemption through 2017; he would fall to cat 7 in 2016.


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald* (2016) – moves to cat 8 in 2015
 * 🇦🇺 Geoff Ogilvy* (2015) – moves to cat 9 in 2013
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney* (2015) – moves to cat 9 in 2015
 * 🇿🇦 Ernie Els* (2014) – moves to cat 9 in 2014
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan* (2013)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter* (2013)

Justin Rose was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2015. Mahan extended his exemption to 2016, in which year he would fall to cat 9. Watney extended his to 2016. Poulter extended his to 2015 by winning the HSBC Champions.


 * 7. The winner of the FedEx Cup in each of the last five calendar years


 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh* (2013)


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


 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar* (2015)


 * 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.


 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker* (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Dustin Johnson* (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Perry (2014)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose* (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Webb Simpson* (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Bubba Watson* (2014)
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Wilson* (2014)
 * 🇨🇦 Stephen Ames (2013)
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Bradley (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crane* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar* (2013)
 * 🇸🇪 Freddie Jacobson* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Kirk* (2013)
 * Martin Laird* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Bryce Molder* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Piercy* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 D. A. Points* (2013)
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Snedeker* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Stallings* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Brendan Steele* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 David Toms* (2013)
 * 🇻🇪 Jhonattan Vegas* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Johnson Wagner* (2013)
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Woodland (2013)
 * 🇦🇺 Stuart Appleby
 * 🇮🇳 Arjun Atwal
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Beckman
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Bettencourt
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Bohn*
 * 🇦🇺 Jason Day*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Garrigus*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay*
 * 🇺🇸 Charley Hoffman*
 * 🇺🇸 Anthony Kim
 * 🇺🇸 Derek Lamely
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Leonard
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Lunde
 * 🇺🇸 Rocco Mediate
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer*
 * 🇸🇪 Carl Pettersson*
 * 🇺🇸 Heath Slocum
 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Westwood*

Thirteen players moved into this category during the season. Jason Dufner earned an exemption through 2015 with two wins. Stricker extended his exemption to 2017; Wilson and Johnson extended theirs to 2015.

Kim received a medical extension. Lunde, Leonard, Slocum, and Villegas finished in the 126–150 range; Leonard used a top 25 career money exemption for 2013, while the rest fell to conditional status. Appleby, Atwal, Bettencourt, Beckman, Mediate, and Lamely finished outside the top 150; Appleby used a top 50 career money exemption for 2013, while the rest fell to past champion status.


 * 10a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇺🇸 Scott Hoch

Hoch was apparently granted a re-use.


 * 10b. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 17. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Watson

Watson focused on the senior tour.


 * 18. Top 30 on the previous year’s FedExCup points list


 * 🇺🇸 Chez Reavie
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden*
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III*
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt*
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner*

Reavie finished in the 126–150 range and made it through Q School.


 * 19. Top 125 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Spencer Levin*
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Gainey*
 * 🇺🇸 Rickie Fowler*
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Marino
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore*
 * 🇸🇪 Robert Karlsson
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Jobe
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Stanley*
 * 🇺🇸 George McNeill*
 * 🇦🇺 Robert Allenby*
 * 🇺🇸 Jerry Kelly
 * 🇺🇸 J. B. Holmes*
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Goydos
 * 🇺🇸 John Rollins*
 * 🇺🇸 Kris Blanks
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Chappell*
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker*
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Tringale*
 * 🇦🇷 Andrés Romero*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Davis*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Streelman*
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez*
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Overton*
 * 🇿🇼 Brendon de Jonge*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Verplank
 * 🇰🇷 Charlie Wi*
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Campbell*
 * 🇺🇸 Blake Adams*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Stroud*
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Haas
 * 🇯🇵 Ryuji Imada
 * 🇺🇸 Ricky Barnes*
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Matteson*
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird
 * 🇦🇺 Nick O'Hern
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Thompson*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Couch
 * 🇦🇺 Marc Leishman*
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Herron*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Henry*
 * 🇨🇦 David Hearn*
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Chalmers*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Gillis*
 * 🇿🇦 Retief Goosen
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Mayfair
 * 🇺🇸 Josh Teater*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Stadler*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris DiMarco
 * 🇺🇸 James Driscoll*
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Ogilvie
 * 🇺🇸 David Mathis*
 * 🇺🇸 John Merrick*
 * 🇰🇷 Kang Sung-hoon
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Pernice Jr.
 * 🇦🇺 Rod Pampling
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. Trahan

Kelly, Pampling, Mayfair, Trahan, Goosen, and O'Hern finished in the 126–150 range. Kelly used a top 25 career money exemption; Goosen received a medical extension. Pampling, Mayfair, Trahan, and O'Hern fell to the conditional category for 2013.

DiMarco, Haas, Karlsson, Blanks, Jobe, Couch, Imada, Pernice, Kang, Baird, Ogilvie, Marino, Goydos, and Verplank finished outside the top 150. Haas, Blanks, Jobe, Baird, Ogilvie, Marino, Goydos, and Verplank received major medical extensions and Couch a minor; Blanks also made it through Q School, as did Karlsson. DiMarco, Imada, and Pernice fell to past champion status in 2013 (for good). Kang became a non-member.


 * 20. Non-member top 125


 * 🇺🇸 Bud Cauley* (first-time member)

Anders Hansen and Francesco Molinari declined membership.


 * 21. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Bart Bryant (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Arron Oberholser (14)
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Klauk (8)
 * 🇺🇸 Joey Snyder III (25)
 * 🇺🇸 Dudley Hart (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Sutherland (15)
 * 🇪🇸 José María Olazábal (14)
 * 🇸🇪 Jesper Parnevik (15)
 * 🇨🇦 Graham DeLaet* (26)
 * 🇺🇸 Hank Kuehne (18)
 * 🇩🇪 Alex Čejka (5)
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Maggert* (9)
 * 🇦🇷 José Cóceres (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Marc Turnesa (1)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Collins (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Funk (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Wes Short Jr. (12)

DeLaet met his terms in July. Maggert's extension expired in April; he fell to the reshuffle category but finished in the top 125. Čejka's expired in May, but he had secured conditional status; he fell to the non-exempt medical category, finished outside the top 150, and settled for past champion status in 2013. Olazábal's, Turnesa's, and Funk's expired in July, January, and April, respectively, and all three fell to past champion status (for good). Collins's expired in April and he became a non-member. Bryant, Oberholser, Klauk, Snyder, Hart, Sutherland, Parnevik, Kuehne, Cóceres, and Short received carry-overs.

Bob Estes was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in February; he finished in the top 125.


 * 22. Nationwide Tour leading money-winner


 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Killeen (rookie)

Killeen finished outside the top 150 and fell short at Q School; he became a non-member in 2013 and has never regained status.


 * 23. Medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Jamie Lovemark (16)
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Moore (4)

Lovemark's extension expired in July and he became a non-member. Moore received a carry-over.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Brendon Todd
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Potter Jr.* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Stephen Gangluff
 * 🇦🇺 Mathew Goggin
 * 🇺🇸 Bobby Gates
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Kokrak* (rookie)
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Seung-yul* (rookie)
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Blixt* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Biershenk (rookie)
 * 🇳🇿 Danny Lee (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Jarrod Lyle
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Duke*
 * 🇺🇸 Vaughn Taylor
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Brown (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Estes*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Christian (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Harman* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇷 Miguel Ángel Carballo (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Marco Dawson
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Kelly*
 * 🇰🇷 Bae Sang-moon* (rookie)
 * Russell Knox (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Kisner
 * 🇺🇸 Erik Compton (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 John Mallinger*
 * 🇺🇸 Roberto Castro* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Thompson
 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Beljan* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Reifers
 * 🇺🇸 William McGirt*
 * 🇦🇺 Gavin Coles
 * 🇺🇸 Harris English* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Every*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Sheehan
 * 🇸🇪 Daniel Chopra
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greg Owen*
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Wheatcroft
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Dunlap
 * 🇿🇦 Garth Mulroy
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Summerhays*
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Anderson (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Edward Loar (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Will Claxton* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Flores*
 * 🇺🇸 Richard H. Lee (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Hurley III (rookie)
 * 🇧🇷 Alexandre Rocha
 * 🇺🇸 John Huh* (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Nathan Green
 * 🇺🇸 Colt Knost*

Those who finished in the 126–150 range were Christian, Rocha, Richard H. Lee, Taylor, Gates, Knox, Brown, and Todd. Richard H. Lee and Gates were successful at Q School; Christian, Rocha, Taylor, Knox, Brown, and Todd settled for conditional status.

Hurley, Reifers, Anderson, Green, Lyle, Compton, Danny Lee, Kisner, Mulroy, Carballo, Goggin, Coles, Dunlap, Chopra, Wheatcroft, Sheehan, Biershenk, Loar, Dawson, Gangluff, and Thompson finished outside the top 150. Lyle received a medical extension; Compton made it through Q School. Green, Chopra, and Dawson settled for past champion status (for good, in Green and Dawson's cases). The other 16 became non-members; Mulroy, Goggin, Coles, Dunlap, Sheehan, Biershenk, and Gangluff have not reached the PGA Tour again.


 * 26. Reshuffle medical


 * 🇺🇸 Duffy Waldorf (5)
 * 🇺🇸 Shane Bertsch (1)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Putnam (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Neal Lancaster (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Tomasulo (12)
 * 🇺🇸 Carl Paulson (2)
 * 🇺🇸 David Berganio Jr. (7)
 * 🇺🇸 Fran Quinn (5)
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Affrunti (13)

Bertsch's extension expired in January and he fell to conditional status; he finished outside the top 150 and became a non-member in 2013. Paulson used his last start at the final event of the season; he finished outside the top 150, became a non-member in 2013, and would not reach the PGA Tour again. Waldorf's extension expired in April and he fell to past champion status (for good). Putnam's and Quinn's extensions expired in June and July, respectively; both became non-members, and Quinn would never regain status. Lancaster, Tomasulo, Berganio, and Affrunti received carry-overs.


 * 27. Three-time Web.com Tour winners in the current year


 * 28. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Dean Wilson (4)

Wilson used his last start at the final event of the season; he finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status for good in 2013.


 * 29. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Roland Thatcher
 * 🇦🇺 Steven Bowditch
 * 🇦🇺 Matt Jones
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Flesch
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey
 * 🇨🇦 Matt McQuillan
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Horschel
 * 🇺🇸 Garrett Willis
 * 🇺🇸 Scott McCarron
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Petrovic
 * 🇺🇸 Zack Miller
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Curtis*

One player won. Petrovic and Horschel finished in the 126–150 range; Horschel succeeded at Q School, while Petrovic remained in this category for 2013. The remaining players all finished outside the top 150. Flesch and McCarron received medical extensions, while Jones and Bowditch made it through Q School. Willis and Casey fell to past champion status in 2013 (for good, in Willis's case). Thatcher, Miller, and McQuillan became non-members, and have never regained status.

Shane Bertsch fell to this category after his medical extension expired in January; he finished outside the top 150 and became a non-member in 2013.


 * 30. Non-exempt medical extension


 * 🇨🇦 Mike Weir (3)

Weir's extension expired in March, and he fell to past champion status; he used a top 25 career money exemption in 2013.

Alex Čejka fell to this category after his medical extension expired in May; he finished outside the top 150 and settled for past champion status in 2013.

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


 * 🇺🇸 Dicky Pride*
 * 🇺🇸 Boo Weekley*
 * 🇺🇸 John Daly
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Durant
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Janzen
 * 🇺🇸 Todd Hamilton
 * 🇺🇸 Rich Beem
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Couples
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Riley

Two players finished in the top 125. Daly finished in the 126–150 range and rose to the conditional category in 2013. Of the others listed, only Durant would ever 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 2013):
 * Notable non-members


 * 🇸🇪 Peter Hanson^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Lynn^
 * 🇯🇵 Ryo Ishikawa^
 * 🇧🇪 Nicolas Colsaerts^
 * 🇩🇪 Martin Kaymer^
 * 🇮🇹 Francesco Molinari
 * 🇪🇸 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
 * Paul Lawrie
 * 🇺🇸 John Peterson
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jamie Donaldson
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Reed
 * 🇺🇸 Luke Guthrie
 * 🇩🇰 Thomas Bjørn
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Simon Dyson
 * 🇿🇦 Thomas Aiken
 * 🇩🇰 Anders Hansen
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Kyung-tae
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Robert Rock
 * 🇿🇦 Branden Grace
 * 🇪🇸 Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño
 * 🇪🇸 Álvaro Quirós
 * 🇸🇪 Alex Norén
 * 🇩🇰 Thorbjørn Olesen
 * 🇪🇸 Rafa Cabrera-Bello
 * 🇺🇸 Casey Wittenberg
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Slattery
 * 🇳🇱 Joost Luiten
 * 🇪🇸 Alejandro Cañizares

Hanson, Lynn, Ishikawa, Colsaerts, and Kaymer accepted membership for 2013. Ishikawa and Hanson accepted STM in March, and Colsaerts in September.

Guthrie and Wittenberg finished in the top 25 of the Web.com Tour money list. Reed was successful in Q School; Peterson, Donaldson, Kim, Fernández-Castaño, Norén, Cabrera-Bello, and Cañizares were not.

Thirty-two players made it from the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour for 2013 (25 via the money list, 7 via Q School). Besides Reed, eight players with no PGA Tour or Web.com Tour status in 2012 made it through Q School (including European Tour winner Ross Fisher and Japan Golf Tour winner Lee Dong-hwan).
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