User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2018


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

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2018.


 * 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.)


 * 🇺🇸 Dustin Johnson* (2022) – moves to cat 10 in 2022
 * 🇺🇸 Brooks Koepka* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Jordan Spieth* (2022) – moves to cat 4 in 2021
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Thomas* (2022)
 * 🇦🇺 Jason Day* (2021) – moves to cat 2 in 2021
 * Rory McIlroy* (2021) – moves to cat 8 in 2020
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker* (2021)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner* (2020) – moves to cat 7 in 2019
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose* (2020) – moves to cat 10 in 2019
 * 🇩🇪 Martin Kaymer (2019)

Koepka extended his exemption to 2023. Thomas extended his exemption to 2023, in which season he would fall to cat 10. Johnson extended his to 2023. Rose extended his to 2023; he would fall to cat 6 in 2019 and cat 8 in 2022. Day extended his to 2023, and would fall to cat 10 in 2022. McIlroy extended his to 2022, in which season he would fall to cat 10.


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


 * 🇰🇷 Kim Si-woo* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Rickie Fowler* (2021) – moves to cat 10 in 2021
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods*

Webb Simpson was promoted to this category after his win earned an exemption through 2023. Woods moved to cat 5 in 2019 with an exemption through 2021.


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


 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García (2022)
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2021) – moves to cat 6 in 2019 and cat 10 in 2020
 * 🇺🇸 Bubba Watson* (2021) – moves to cat 10 in 2020

Danny Willett declined membership. Patrick Reed was promoted to this category after his win earned an exemption through 2023. Watson extended his exemption to 2023; he would fall to cat 6 in 2020 and cat 10 in 2023.


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


 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Stenson* (2022) – moves to cat 10 in 2022
 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson* (2020)
 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson*

Francesco Molinari was promoted to this category after his win earned an exemption through 2023. Mickelson earned an exemption through 2021 and would move to cat 6 in 2019.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Xander Schauffele* (2020)


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


 * 🇯🇵 Hideki Matsuyama* (2022) – moves to cat 10 in 2021
 * Russell Knox* (2020) – moves to cat 10 in 2019
 * 🇮🇪 Shane Lowry

Lowry finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status for 2019.


 * 7. Winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial Tournament in the last three seasons and the current season, beginning with the 2015 winners


 * 🇦🇺 Marc Leishman* (2021) – moves to cat 10 in 2021
 * 🇺🇸 William McGirt* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Every
 * 🇸🇪 David Lingmerth

Bryson DeChambeau was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2021; he subsequently extended this to 2023 and would fall to cat 10 in 2022.

Lingmerth finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status for 2019. Every finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Billy Horschel* (2019)

Horschel extended his exemption to 2020, in which season he would fall to cat 10.


 * 9. The leader in PGA TOUR official earnings in each of the last five calendar years (up to 2016)


 * 10. 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.


 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Berger* (2019)
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Blixt (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Wesley Bryan (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Chappell* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Bryson DeChambeau* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Cody Gribble (2019)
 * 🇨🇦 Adam Hadwin* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Harman* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Henley* (2019)
 * 🇨🇦 Mackenzie Hughes (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Kisner* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Grayson Murray* (2019)
 * 🇦🇺 Rod Pampling (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 D. A. Points (2019)
 * 🇪🇸 Jon Rahm* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Reed* (2019)
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Smith* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Stanley* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Brendan Steele* (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Stroud (2019)
 * 🇺🇸 Hudson Swafford (2019)
 * 🇻🇪 Jhonattan Vegas* (2019)
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Chalmers
 * 🇺🇸 Tony Finau*
 * 🇦🇷 Fabián Gómez
 * 🇿🇦 Branden Grace*
 * 🇦🇷 Emiliano Grillo*
 * 🇺🇸 James Hahn*
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Herman
 * 🇺🇸 Charley Hoffman*
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Hurley III
 * 🇺🇸 Smylie Kaufman
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Kirk*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Malnati
 * Graeme McDowell
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore*
 * 🇿🇦 Charl Schwartzel*
 * 🇺🇸 Webb Simpson*
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Snedeker*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Stuard*
 * 🇺🇸 Vaughn Taylor*

Not including Francesco Molinari, who was afterwards promoted to cat 4, eighteen players moved into this category during the season. Kizzire earned an exemption through 2021 with two wins.

Herman received a major medical extension, and Chalmers and Kaufman minors. Baddeley and McDowell finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status in 2019. Malnati, Gómez, and Hurley finished outside the top 150; Malnati and Gómez made it through the Finals, while Hurley fell to past champion status (and has not regained better status since).


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark
 * 🇿🇦 Retief Goosen
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt

Clark and Van Pelt played no events and were granted re-uses. Goosen finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status for good in 2019.


 * 11b. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi
 * 🇿🇦 Ernie Els

Choi received a medical extension. Els used his top 50 exemption for 2019.


 * 18. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III
 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey*
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Woodland*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Cantlay*
 * 🇿🇦 Louis Oosthuizen*
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas
 * 🇮🇹 Francesco Molinari*
 * 🇺🇸 Chez Reavie*
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III*
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na*
 * 🇺🇸 Keegan Bradley*
 * 🇺🇸 Luke List*
 * 🇮🇳 Anirban Lahiri*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter*
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Brown*
 * Martin Laird*
 * 🇺🇸 Jamie Lovemark*
 * 🇰🇷 Kang Sung-hoon*
 * 🇺🇸 Ollie Schniederjans*
 * 🇪🇸 Rafa Cabrera-Bello*
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Streb
 * 🇺🇸 Bud Cauley*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Tway*
 * 🇳🇿 Danny Lee*
 * 🇺🇸 Kelly Kraft*
 * 🇨🇦 Graham DeLaet
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Kokrak*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Rodgers*
 * 🇺🇸 Morgan Hoffmann
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Campbell
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Streelman*
 * 🇹🇼 Pan Cheng-tsung*
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Meen-whee*
 * 🇺🇸 Harold Varner III*
 * 🇨🇦 Nick Taylor*
 * 🇺🇸 J. B. Holmes*
 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Spaun*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Piercy*
 * 🇺🇸 Patton Kizzire*
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Kim*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Stallings*
 * 🇰🇷 An Byeong-hun*
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Flores
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald
 * 🇺🇸 Richy Werenski*
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Blaum*
 * 🇦🇺 Geoff Ogilvy
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Garrigus
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Seung-yul
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay*
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Hagy
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker
 * 🇺🇸 Derek Fathauer
 * 🇿🇦 Tyrone van Aswegen
 * 🇺🇸 Harris English*
 * 🇺🇸 Dominic Bozzelli
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney*
 * 🇺🇸 John Huh*
 * 🇺🇸 Blayne Barber
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Martin
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Henry

Van Aswegen, Campbell, Garrigus, Glover, Fathauer, Stricker, and Martin finished in the 126–150 range. Stricker used a top 25 career money exemption. Glover and Martin received minor medical extensions; Glover also made it through the Finals. Van Aswegen, Campbell, Garrigus, and Fathauer settled for conditional status in 2019.

Haas, Henry, Flores, Barber, Bozzelli, Streb, DeLaet, Villegas, Hoffmann, Ogilvy, Donald, Hagy, and Noh finished outside the top 150. Bozzelli, DeLaet, Villegas, Hoffmann, Donald, Hagy, and Noh received major medical extensions, and Haas a minor. Streb made it through the Finals; Henry used the newly-created 300 cuts made exemption. Ogilvy fell to past champion status in 2019 and has not regained better status. Flores and Barber became non-members and have not reached the PGA Tour since.


 * 20. Non-member top 125


 * 🇧🇪 Thomas Pieters (first-time member)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tommy Fleetwood* (first-time member)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tyrrell Hatton* (first-time member)
 * 🇸🇪 Alex Norén* (first-time member)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Fisher

Lee Westwood declined membership.

Pieters and Fisher finished outside the top 150 and became non-members in 2019; neither has made it back to the PGA Tour since.


 * 21. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer* (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Stadler (26)
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden (13)
 * 🇰🇷 Bae Sang-moon (27)
 * 🇸🇪 Freddie Jacobson (18)
 * 🇺🇸 Jon Curran (18)
 * 🇺🇸 Bob Estes (8)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Couch (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Colt Knost (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Marino (10)
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar (3)
 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Beljan (4)
 * 🇺🇸 John Peterson (8)
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Loupe (6)

Palmer met his terms in January. Beljan's extension expired in February, and Estes and Couch's in July; all three fell to past champion status and have not earned better status since. Loupe and Peterson became non-members when their extensions expired in April and July, respectively, and have not regained membership since. Stadler, Senden, Bae, Jacobson, Curran, Baird, Knost, Marino, and Frazar received carry-overs; Bae also made it through the Finals.

Michael Thompson was promoted to this category in April after meeting his terms; he finished in the 126–150 range and made it through the Finals.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Chesson Hadley*


 * 23. Medical extension


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


 * 🇺🇸 Brice Garnett*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Uihlein* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Landry*
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd
 * 🇲🇽 Abraham Ancer*
 * 🇺🇸 Nicholas Lindheim
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Ryder* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Rob Oppenheim
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Potter Jr.*
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Armour*
 * 🇩🇪 Stephan Jäger (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Saunders*
 * 🇺🇸 Talor Gooch (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Shawn Stefani
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Putnam*
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Randolph
 * 🇨🇦 Ben Silverman (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Bronson Burgoon*
 * 🇺🇸 Austin Cook* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Keith Mitchell* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Nate Lashley (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tyler Duncan* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Thompson
 * 🇺🇸 Denny McCarthy (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Schenk (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Merritt*
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Atkins (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Lovelady (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Conrad Shindler (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Piller
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Yun (rookie)
 * 🇩🇪 Alex Čejka*
 * 🇺🇸 Lanto Griffin (rookie)
 * 🇦🇺 Matt Jones
 * 🇺🇸 Aaron Wise* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Tringale
 * 🇨🇳 Dou Zecheng (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brett Stegmaier
 * 🇺🇸 Ethan Tracy (rookie)
 * 🇨🇦 Corey Conners (rookie)
 * 🇨🇳 Zhang Xinjun (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Wheatcroft
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Harkins* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Collins
 * 🇲🇽 Roberto Díaz (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Hoge*
 * 🇺🇸 Beau Hossler* (first-time member)
 * 🇺🇸 Joel Dahmen*
 * 🇮🇪 Séamus Power*

Those who finished in the 126–150 range were Piller, Conners, Lovelady, Silverman, Gooch, Lindheim, Stefani, and McCarthy. Silverman, Lindheim, Stefani, and McCarthy made it through the Finals. Piller, Conners, Lovelady, and Gooch settled for conditional status.

Jones, Schenk, Jäger, Zhang, Griffin, Lashley, Randolph, Tracy, Stegmaier, Oppenheim, Byrd, Wheatcroft, Díaz, Shindler, Tringale, Atkins, Dou, Yun, Thompson, and Collins finished outside the top 150. Collins received a major medical extension, and Lashley and Randolph minors. Jones, Schenk, Jäger, Díaz, and Tringale made it through the Finals. Byrd fell to past champion status in 2019 and has not earned better status since. The other 11 became non-members; Tracy, Stegmaier, Wheatcroft, Shindler, Atkins, Dou, Yun, and Thompson have not reached the PGA Tour since.


 * 26. Reshuffle medical


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Davis (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Kris Blanks (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Will Claxton (12)
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Williams (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Shane Bertsch (2)
 * 🇺🇸 Zack Sucher (6)
 * 🇺🇸 David Berganio Jr. (7)

Davis's extension expired in November and he fell to past champion status; he has not regained better status since. Bertsch used his last start at the regular-season finale; he became a non-member and has not reached the PGA Tour since. Blanks, Claxton, Williams, Sucher, and Berganio received carry-overs.

MacKenzie and Thompson were both upgraded from the minor medical category in November. Thompson met his terms in April, finished in the 126–150 range, and made it through the Finals. MacKenzie received a carry-over.


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


 * 28. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Ben Crane (1)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Thompson (6)
 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Will MacKenzie (6)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Johnston (3)

MacKenzie and Thompson were both upgraded to majors in the reshuffle category in November. Thompson met his terms in April, finished in the 126–150 range, and made it through the Finals. MacKenzie received a carry-over.

Crane fell to the conditional category after his extension expired in October; he finished in the 126–150 and maintained conditional status in 2019. Harrington fell to past champion status after his extension expired in May; he finished outside the top 150 and used a top 50 career money exemption for 2019. Johnston played two events and did not receive a carry-over; he became a non-member in 2019 and has not regained membership.


 * 29. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Zac Blair
 * 🇨🇦 David Hearn
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Summerhays
 * 🇺🇸 J. T. Poston*
 * 🇺🇸 Trey Mullinax*
 * 🇺🇸 Ricky Barnes
 * 🇺🇸 Johnson Wagner
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greg Owen
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Percy
 * 🇩🇰 Søren Kjeldsen
 * 🇺🇸 Rick Lamb

Two players finished in the top 125. Hearn and Wagner finished in the 126–150 range and remained in this category in 2019. The remaining players all finished outside the top 150. Owen received a medical extension. Barnes fell to past champion status in 2019 and has not regained better status since. Blair, Summerhays, Percy, Kjeldsen, and Lamb became non-members for 2019; Summerhays, Kjeldsen, and Lamb have never regained membership.

Ben Crane fell to this category after his medical extension expired in October; he finished in the 126–150 and maintained conditional status in 2019.


 * 30. Non-exempt medical extension

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


 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan
 * 🇦🇷 Andrés Romero
 * 🇺🇸 Parker McLachlin
 * 🇺🇸 Tim Herron
 * 🇦🇺 Stuart Appleby
 * 🇺🇸 John Merrick

Furyk finished in the 126–150 range and rose to conditional status in 2019. Mahan made it through the Finals. The others listed have not regained better status since.

One non-member won in 2018 and accepted membership:
 * Notable non-members


 * 🇯🇵 Satoshi Kodaira*

The following non-members (plus John Peterson) finished the equivalent of top 200 on the FedEx Cup points list (^ denotes those eligible for full PGA Tour membership in 2019):


 * 🇨🇱 Joaquín Niemann^
 * 🇹🇭 Kiradech Aphibarnrat^
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Fitzpatrick
 * 🇩🇰 Thorbjørn Olesen
 * 🇺🇸 John Oda
 * 🇺🇸 Julian Suri
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Burns
 * 🇿🇦 Dylan Frittelli
 * 🇦🇹 Bernd Wiesberger
 * 🇮🇪 Paul Dunne
 * 🇨🇳 Li Haotong
 * 🇮🇳 Shubhankar Sharma
 * 🇺🇸 Dylan Meyer
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eddie Pepperell
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Paisley
 * 🇯🇵 Daisuke Kataoka
 * 🇿🇦 Brandon Stone
 * 🇳🇿 Ryan Fox
 * 🇺🇸 Chase Seiffert

Niemann and Aphibarnrat accepted membership for 2019. Aphibarnrat accepted STM in March, and Niemann and Fitzpatrick in May.

Burns finished in the top 25 of the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Frittelli was successful in the Finals; Oda, Suri, Meyer, Paisley, Kataoka, and Seiffert were not.

Thirty-two players not listed made it from the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour for 2019 (including Japan Golf Tour winner Lee Kyoung-hoon; 24 via the regular-season money list, 8 via the Finals).
 * Other notes