User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2014


 * – Denotes a player who finished in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup points list.

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2014.


 * 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.)


 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner* (2018)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose* (2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Webb Simpson* (2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Keegan Bradley* (2017) – moves to cat 9 in 2017
 * Rory McIlroy* (2017)
 * Graeme McDowell* (2016) – moves to cat 9 in 2016
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover (2015) – moves to cat 9 in 2015
 * 🇩🇪 Martin Kaymer* (2015)
 * 🇰🇷 Yang Yong-eun

Kaymer and McIlroy extended their exemptions to 2019. Rose did the same; he would fall to cat 9 in 2019. Simpson extended his exemption to 2018, in which year he would fall to cat 9.

Yang finished outside the top 150, fell short in the Finals, and dropped to past champion status in 2015 (for good).


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


 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar* (2018) – moves to cat 9 in 2018
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Stenson* (2018) – moves to cat 5 in 2015 and cat 7 in 2017
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods (2018)
 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi* (2016)
 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark* (2015)

Kuchar extended his exemption to 2019. Clark extended his to 2016, 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.)


 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson* (2018) – moves to cat 4 in 2016
 * 🇺🇸 Bubba Watson* (2017)
 * 🇿🇦 Charl Schwartzel* (2016)
 * 🇦🇷 Ángel Cabrera*

Watson extended his exemption to 2019. Scott did the same; he would fall to cat 9 in 2019.


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


 * 🇿🇦 Ernie Els* (2017)
 * Darren Clarke (2016)
 * 🇿🇦 Louis Oosthuizen* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink*


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


 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Snedeker* (2017) – moves to cat 7 in 2016
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas* (2016) – moves to cat 7 in 2015

Billy Horschel was promoted to this category after his win, and earned an exemption through 2019; he would fall to cat 7 in 2018.


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald* (2016) – moves to cat 8 in 2015
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan* (2016) – moves to cat 9 in 2016
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney* (2016) – moves to cat 9 in 2015
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter* (2015)

Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, and Jason Day were promoted to this category and earned exemptions through 2017. Mahan extended his exemption to 2017.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk* (2015)


 * 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.


 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson* (2018)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker* (2017)
 * 🇺🇸 Dustin Johnson* (2016)
 * 🇺🇸 Woody Austin (2015)
 * 🇰🇷 Bae Sang-moon* (2015)
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Blixt* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Brown* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Duke (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Harris English* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Derek Ernst (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Henley* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Horschel* (2015)
 * Martin Laird (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 John Merrick (2015)
 * 🇦🇺 Geoff Ogilvy* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 D. A. Points (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Reed* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Jordan Spieth* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Streelman* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Thompson* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Boo Weekley* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Wilson (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Woodland* (2015)
 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Beljan
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Curtis
 * 🇺🇸 Rickie Fowler*
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy Gainey
 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Henry
 * 🇺🇸 John Huh*
 * 🇦🇺 Marc Leishman*
 * 🇺🇸 George McNeill*
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore*
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Perry
 * 🇸🇪 Carl Pettersson*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Piercy
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Potter Jr.
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Stallings*
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Stanley
 * 🇺🇸 Johnson Wagner

Fifteen players moved into this category during the season. Jimmy Walker earned an exemption through 2018 with three wins; Chris Kirk earned an exemption through 2017 with two wins. Zach Johnson extended his exemption to 2019.

Beljan finished in the top 125 of the money list. Perry used a top 25 career money exemption for 2015. Piercy and Potter received medical extensions. Henry, Curtis, and Wagner finished in the 126–150 range; Henry made it through the Finals, and the others fell to conditional status in 2015. Gainey and Stanley finished outside the top 150; both fell to past champion status (for good, in Gainey's case).


 * 10a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇨🇦 Stephen Ames
 * 🇨🇦 Mike Weir
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Calcavecchia
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Funk

Weir finished in the top 125 of the money list. Ames, Calcavecchia, and Funk all finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status for good in 2015.


 * 10b. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 🇦🇺 Robert Allenby*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Verplank

Verplank used his top 50 career money exemption for 2015.


 * 17. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III
 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh*
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Watson

Watson focused on the senior tour.


 * 18. Top 125 on the previous year’s FedExCup points list


 * 🇨🇦 Graham DeLaet*
 * 🇦🇺 Jason Day*
 * 🇺🇸 Roberto Castro
 * 🇿🇼 Brendon de Jonge*
 * 🇦🇺 Matt Jones*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Stadler*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Kirk*
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III*
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker*
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Summerhays*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Westwood*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Stroud*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Chappell*
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Davis*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Lynn
 * 🇨🇦 David Hearn*
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Every*
 * 🇺🇸 Nicholas Thompson
 * 🇺🇸 Charley Hoffman*
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Kokrak*
 * 🇺🇸 Bryce Molder*
 * 🇺🇸 Brendan Steele*
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer*
 * 🇸🇪 Freddie Jacobson*
 * 🇸🇪 David Lingmerth
 * 🇺🇸 Josh Teater
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Tringale*
 * 🇺🇸 John Rollins
 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas*
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Estes
 * 🇺🇸 Jerry Kelly*
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Leonard*
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Flores*
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt*
 * 🇺🇸 Luke Guthrie*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Garrigus*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Stuard*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Harman*
 * 🇦🇺 Stuart Appleby*
 * 🇺🇸 Richard H. Lee
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Chalmers
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez*
 * 🇺🇸 Erik Compton*
 * 🇺🇸 William McGirt*
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley*
 * 🇺🇸 James Driscoll
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Overton*
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden*
 * 🇺🇸 James Hahn*
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Bohn*
 * 🇺🇸 Jeff Maggert
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Hicks*
 * 🇺🇸 Morgan Hoffmann*
 * 🇺🇸 Chez Reavie
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Dong-hwan
 * 🇦🇷 Andrés Romero*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Langley*
 * 🇰🇷 Charlie Wi
 * 🇦🇺 Steven Bowditch*
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crane*

Thompson finished in the top 125 of the money list. Chalmers, Lingmerth, Castro, Richard H. Lee, Teater, and Wi finished in the 126–150 range. Lingmerth made it through the Finals; Wi received a minor medical extension, and the rest settled for conditional status in 2015.

Driscoll, Rollins, Maggert, Lynn, Lee Dong-hwan, Estes, and Reavie finished outside the top 150. Estes and Reavie received major medical extensions, and Lee Dong-hwan a minor. Rollins and Maggert fell to past champion status in 2015 (for good). Driscoll and Lynn became non-members, and have not reached the PGA Tour since.


 * 19. Top 125 from money list


 * 🇧🇪 Nicolas Colsaerts
 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington
 * 🇺🇸 David Toms*
 * 🇸🇪 Peter Hanson

Colsaerts, Harrington, and Hanson finished outside the top 150. Harrington fell to past champion status in 2015; Colsaerts and Hanson became non-members, and have not reached the PGA Tour since.


 * 20. Non-member top 125


 * 🇪🇸 Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño* (first-time member)
 * 🇯🇵 Hideki Matsuyama* (first-time member)
 * 🇩🇰 Thorbjørn Olesen (first-time member)

Olesen finished outside the top 150 and became a non-member in 2015.


 * 21. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Anthony Kim (16)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Marino (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na* (18)
 * 🇺🇸 J. B. Holmes* (19)
 * 🇿🇦 Retief Goosen* (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Arron Oberholser (10)
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Goydos (19)
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd (10)
 * 🇺🇸 Joey Snyder III (2)
 * 🇺🇸 Dudley Hart (12)
 * 🇺🇸 Blake Adams (24)
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird (14)
 * 🇺🇸 Spencer Levin (28)
 * 🇻🇪 Jhonattan Vegas* (21)
 * 🇺🇸 Hank Kuehne (1)
 * 🇺🇸 Kris Blanks (3 + 17)
 * 🇺🇸 John Mallinger (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Kelly (14)
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Herron (8)
 * 🇦🇷 José Cóceres (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar (25)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Couch (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Hoch (9)

Holmes met his terms in April and won the following week. Baird met his in November, Na in January, Byrd in March, Goosen in April, and Vegas in July; Baird ultimately needed another medical extension, while Byrd finished in the 126–150 range and landed in the conditional category for 2015. Herron and Marino secured conditional status and fell to the non-exempt medical category when their extensions expired in May and July, respectively. Both finished outside the top 150; Herron fell to past champion status for good in 2015, while Marino became a non-member. Blanks's first extension expired in February, and he fell to the reshuffle medical category (in which he received a carry-over). Cóceres's expired in March and Goydos's in July; both fell to past champion status (for good). Mallinger's expired in June; he became a non-member and has never regained membership. Kim, Oberholser, Hart, Adams, Levin, Kelly, Frazar, Couch, and Hoch received carry-overs; Snyder and Kuehne did not.

Shawn Stefani was promoted to this category after meeting his terms in April; he finished in the top 125.

Scott McCarron was abruptly promoted to this category in March; his extension expired in July and he fell to past champion status for good.


 * 22. Web.com Tour and Finals leading money-winners


 * 🇺🇸 Michael Putnam*
 * 🇺🇸 John Peterson (first-time member)

Peterson finished outside the top 150 but made it through the Finals.


 * 23. Medical extension


 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Moore (4)

Moore did not receive a carry-over.


 * 25. Web.com Tour 2-25 and Finals 2-25


 * 🇺🇸 Chesson Hadley* (rookie)
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Seung-yul*
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Svoboda*
 * 🇿🇦 Trevor Immelman
 * 🇺🇸 Will MacKenzie*
 * 🇦🇺 Scott Gardiner
 * 🇺🇸 Edward Loar
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Martin*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Cantlay (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brendon Todd*
 * 🇯🇵 Ryo Ishikawa*
 * 🇨🇦 Brad Fritsch
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Kisner*
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Matteson
 * 🇺🇸 Bud Cauley
 * 🇺🇸 Heath Slocum
 * Russell Knox*
 * 🇺🇸 Hudson Swafford (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Will Claxton
 * 🇺🇸 Brice Garnett* (rookie)
 * 🇿🇦 Tyrone van Aswegen (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Collins
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Hurley III*
 * 🇳🇿 Danny Lee*
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Herman
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Durant
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Merritt*
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Williams
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Loupe (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Ricky Barnes*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Malnati (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Bobby Gates
 * 🇦🇺 Bronson La'Cassie (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Alex Aragon
 * 🇳🇿 Tim Wilkinson*
 * 🇺🇸 Jamie Lovemark
 * 🇺🇸 Wes Roach (rookie)
 * 🇸🇪 Daniel Chopra
 * 🇺🇸 Alex Prugh
 * 🇦🇷 Miguel Ángel Carballo
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Renner
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Anderson
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Tway (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Foley (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Bettencourt
 * 🇺🇸 Will Wilcox (rookie)
 * 🇨🇱 Benjamín Alvarado (rookie)

Renner finished in the top 125 of the money list. Those who finished in the 126–150 range were Slocum, Loupe, Wilcox, Cauley, van Aswegen, Immelman, and Swafford. Cauley received a minor medical extension, and also made it through the Finals, as did Slocum, van Aswegen, and Swafford. Loupe, Wilcox, and Immelman settled for conditional status.

Fritsch, Roach, Collins, O'Hair, Matteson, Durant, Lovemark, Tway, Malnati, Herman, La'Cassie, Gardiner, Carballo, Foley, Williams, Prugh, Bettencourt, Anderson, Claxton, Cantlay, Loar, Alvarado, Chopra, Aragon, and Gates finished outside the top 150. Williams, Anderson, Claxton, Cantlay, Alvarado, and Gates received major medical extensions and Fritsch and Gardiner minors. Collins, O'Hair, Herman, and Prugh made it through the Finals. Matteson, Durant, Bettencourt, and Chopra fell to past champion status in 2015 (for good). The other 9 became non-members; La'Cassie, Foley, Loar, and Aragon have not reached the PGA Tour again.


 * 26. Reshuffle medical


 * 🇦🇺 Jarrod Lyle (20)
 * 🇺🇸 Neal Lancaster (8)
 * 🇺🇸 David Berganio Jr. (7)
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Affrunti (8)

All four received carry-overs.

Kris Blanks fell to this category after his first medical extension expired in February; he received a carry-over.


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

One player achieved this:


 * 🇲🇽 Carlos Ortiz


 * 28. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Shawn Stefani* (2)

Stefani met his terms in April and was promoted to the medical category.


 * 29. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Robert Streb*
 * 🇦🇷 Fabián Gómez
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greg Owen
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Campbell
 * 🇺🇸 Tag Ridings
 * 🇺🇸 Dicky Pride
 * 🇺🇸 Doug LaBelle II
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Kohles
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Jobe
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Bolli

One player finished in the top 125. The remaining players all finished outside the top 150. Jobe and Ridings received medical extensions; Campbell used a top 50 career money exemption for 2015. Owen made it through the Finals; Gómez finished in the top 25 of the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Pride fell to past champion status in 2015. LaBelle, Kohles, and Bolli became non-members, and only Kohles has ever regained status.


 * 30. Non-exempt medical extension


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Christian (3)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott McCarron (11)
 * 🇺🇸 John Daly (1)

Christian used his last start at the final regular-season; he finished outside the top 150, became a non-member in 2015, and has never regained membership. McCarron was abruptly promoted to the major medical category in March; his extension expired in July and he fell to past champion status for good. Daly's extension expired in January. and he fell to past champion status for good.

Tim Herron and Steve Marino fell to this category when their extensions expired in May and July, respectively. Both finished outside the top 150; Herron fell to past champion status for good in 2015, while Marino became a non-member.

The following past champions finished in the top 200 of the FedEx Cup points list:
 * Notable past champions


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey*
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Gore
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Axley
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Petrovic
 * 🇯🇵 Ryuji Imada
 * 🇩🇪 Bernhard Langer

One player finished in the top 125. Gore, Alex Čejka, and Bill Lunde finished in the top 25 of the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Axley made it through the Finals. None of the others have ever regained better status.

The following non-members (plus John Mallinger) finished the equivalent of top 200 on the FedEx Cup points list (^ denotes those eligible for full PGA Tour membership in 2015):
 * Notable non-members


 * 🇫🇷 Victor Dubuisson^
 * 🇺🇸 Brooks Koepka^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jamie Donaldson^
 * 🇮🇹 Francesco Molinari^
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Allred
 * 🇩🇰 Thomas Bjørn
 * 🇮🇹 Matteo Manassero
 * 🇸🇪 Robert Karlsson
 * 🇪🇸 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
 * 🇿🇦 Richard Sterne
 * Stephen Gallacher
 * 🇹🇭 Thongchai Jaidee
 * 🇹🇭 Kiradech Aphibarnrat
 * 🇿🇦 George Coetzee
 * 🇳🇱 Joost Luiten
 * 🇿🇦 Branden Grace
 * 🇫🇮 Mikko Ilonen
 * 🇺🇸 Max Homa
 * 🇦🇺 Scott Hend
 * 🇮🇹 Edoardo Molinari
 * 🇮🇪 Shane Lowry
 * 🇮🇳 Shiv Kapur
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Wood
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Thomas
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Rodgers
 * Marc Warren

Dubuisson, Koepka, Donaldson, and Francesco Molinari accepted membership for 2015. Dubuisson and Donaldson accepted STM in March, Koepka in April, Francesco Molinari in June, and Manassero in July.

Thomas finished in the top 25 of the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Sterne was successful in the Finals; Allred, Grace, Hend, and Rodgers were not.

Thirty-one players not mentioned above made it from the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour for 2015 (including Japan Golf Tour winner Park Sung-joon; 20 via the regular-season money list, 11 via the Finals).
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