User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2021


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

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2021.


 * 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* (2026) – moves to cat 8 in 2024
 * 🇺🇸 Collin Morikawa* (2026)
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Thomas* (2026) – moves to cat 6 in 2024 and cat 10 in 2025
 * 🇺🇸 Brooks Koepka* (2025)
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Woodland* (2025)
 * 🇦🇺 Jason Day* (2024) – moves to cat 2 in 2022 and cat 10 in 2023
 * 🇺🇸 Jordan Spieth* (2023) – moves to cat 4 in 2022
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker (2022)

Bryson DeChambeau moved to this category after his U.S. Open win. Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm moved to this category after their wins and extended their exemptions to 2021. Johnson's Masters win meant he would move to cat 3 in 2024. Thomas's Players win meant he would move to cat 2 in 2024. Koepka extended his exemption to 2026, in which year he would move to cat 10. Spieth extended his through 2024, in which year he would move 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.)


 * Rory McIlroy* (2026) – moves to cat 10 in 2026
 * 🇺🇸 Webb Simpson* (2026) – moves to cat 10 in 2025
 * 🇺🇸 Rickie Fowler (2023) – moves to cat 10 in 2022
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Si-woo* (2023)

Kim extended his exemption to 2024, in which year he would move to cat 10.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Reed* (2026) – moves to cat 10 in 2025
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods (2026) – moves to cat 10 in 2026
 * 🇪🇸 Sergio García* (2023)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Danny Willett (2022)

Hideki Matsuyama was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2026. García extended his exemption to 2024, in which season he would fall to cat 10.


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


 * 🇮🇪 Shane Lowry* (2025)
 * 🇮🇹 Francesco Molinari (2025) – moves to cat 10 in 2025
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Stenson (2023) – moves to cat 10 in 2023
 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson*


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


 * 🇺🇸 Xander Schauffele* (2024) – moves to cat 6 in 2022 and cat 10 in 2024


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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose (2024) – moves to cat 8 in 2023
 * 🇺🇸 Bubba Watson* (2024) – moves to cat 10 in 2024
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Kisner* (2023)
 * 🇯🇵 Hideki Matsuyama* (2023) – moves to cat 10 in 2022
 * 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson* (2023) – moves to cat 10 in 2023

Billy Horschel and Abraham Ancer were promoted to this category after their wins and earned exemptions through 2024. Kisner extended his exemption to 2024, in which season he would fall to cat 10.


 * 7. Winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial Tournament, and Genesis Invitational in the last three seasons and the current season


 * 🇺🇸 Bryson DeChambeau* (2026) – moves to cat 10 in 2023
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tyrrell Hatton* (2024)
 * 🇦🇺 Marc Leishman* (2024) – moves to cat 10 in 2022
 * 🇪🇸 Jon Rahm* (2024)
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Cantlay* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner

Max Homa was promoted to this category after his Genesis win and extended his exemption to 2024. Leishman extended his exemption to 2025. Cantlay extended his to 2026 and would fall to cat 8 in 2025.

Dufner finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status in 2022.


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


 * 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.


 * 🇺🇸 Brendon Todd* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Berger* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Champ* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Tyler Duncan (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Lanto Griffin* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Herman (2023)
 * 🇳🇴 Viktor Hovland* (2023)
 * 🇰🇷 Im Sung-jae* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Landry (2023)
 * 🇨🇴 Sebastián Muñoz* (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Na* (2023)
 * 🇨🇱 Joaquín Niemann* (2023)
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Smith* (2023)
 * 🇨🇦 Nick Taylor (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Thompson (2023)
 * 🇺🇸 Richy Werenski* (2023)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Casey* (2022)
 * 🇨🇦 Corey Conners* (2022)
 * 🇿🇦 Dylan Frittelli* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 J. B. Holmes (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Max Homa* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Charles Howell III (2022)
 * 🇰🇷 Kang Sung-hoon (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Patton Kizzire* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Nate Lashley (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Long* (2022)
 * Graeme McDowell (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Keith Mitchell* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer* (2022)
 * 🇹🇼 Pan Cheng-tsung* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 J. T. Poston* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Chez Reavie* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Trainer (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Tway (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Matthew Wolff* (2022)
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Armour
 * 🇺🇸 Keegan Bradley*
 * 🇺🇸 Austin Cook
 * 🇺🇸 Brice Garnett*
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Horschel*
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Kim
 * Russell Knox*
 * 🇯🇵 Satoshi Kodaira
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Merritt*
 * 🇺🇸 Pat Perez*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Piercy*
 * 🇺🇸 Ted Potter Jr.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Poulter*
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Putnam*
 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Snedeker*
 * 🇺🇸 Brendan Steele*
 * 🇺🇸 Aaron Wise*

Nineteen players earned promotion to this category during the season. Cink, English, and Kokrak earned exemptions through 2024 with two wins. Hovland, Na, Berger, Smith, and Champ extended their exemptions to 2024.

Armour, Cook, Kodaira finished in the 126–150 range; Cook made it through the Finals, while Armour and Kodaira fell to conditional status for 2022. Kim and Potter finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status.


 * 11a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇰🇷 K. J. Choi
 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark
 * 🇺🇸 Jerry Kelly
 * 🇺🇸 Hunter Mahan
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Stricker
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Van Pelt

Clark was granted a re-use. Van Pelt finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status for 2022. The rest fell to past champion status.


 * 11b. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk
 * 🇺🇸 David Toms

Donald used his top 50 exemption in 2022. Furyk and Toms fell to past champion status.


 * 18. Life members


 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III
 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh

Singh no longer qualified for this category in 2022 and used a career money exemption instead.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler*
 * 🇺🇸 Harris English*
 * 🇨🇦 Mackenzie Hughes*
 * 🇺🇸 Tony Finau*
 * 🇲🇽 Abraham Ancer*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Streelman*
 * 🇰🇷 An Byeong-hun
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Fitzpatrick*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Harman*
 * 🇺🇸 Joel Dahmen*
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Kokrak*
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Hubbard
 * 🇳🇿 Danny Lee
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Hoge*
 * 🇲🇽 Carlos Ortiz*
 * 🇸🇪 Alex Norén*
 * 🇨🇦 Adam Hadwin*
 * 🇺🇸 Harry Higgs*
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Henley*
 * 🇺🇸 Talor Gooch*
 * 🇿🇦 Louis Oosthuizen*
 * 🇺🇸 Robby Shelton
 * 🇺🇸 Maverick McNealy*
 * 🇺🇸 Doc Redman*
 * 🇺🇸 Denny McCarthy*
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Norlander*
 * 🇺🇸 Charley Hoffman*
 * 🇨🇳 Zhang Xinjun
 * 🇦🇹 Sepp Straka*
 * 🇺🇸 Harold Varner III*
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Tringale*
 * 🇺🇸 Bud Cauley
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Davis*
 * 🇺🇸 Vaughn Taylor
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Rodgers
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Stuard*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tommy Fleetwood
 * 🇦🇷 Emiliano Grillo*
 * 🇦🇺 Matt Jones*
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Kyoung-hoon*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Harrington
 * 🇺🇸 Matthew NeSmith*
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Ryder*
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Schenk*
 * 🇺🇸 Wyndham Clark*
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Burns*
 * 🇺🇸 Zac Blair
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Brown
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay*
 * 🇺🇸 Beau Hossler
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover*
 * 🇺🇸 Luke List*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Stallings*
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tom Lewis
 * 🇺🇸 Bo Hoag

Those finishing in the 126–150 range were Rodgers, Hoag, Sabbatini, Fleetwood, Hubbard, Moore, Hossler, and Taylor. Moore received a major medical extension, Sabbatini used a career money exemption, and Rodgers made it through the Finals; the rest fell to conditional status. Those finishing below 150th were Lewis, Brown, An, Shelton, Harrington, Zhang, Danny Lee, Cauley, and Blair. Cauley and Blair received major medical extensions, and Danny Lee a minor. Brown fell to past champion status; Lewis, An, Shelton, Harrington, and Zhang became non-members.


 * 20. Non-member top 125


 * 🇺🇸 Will Gordon (first-time member)
 * 🇿🇦 Erik van Rooyen* (first-time member)

Gordon finished outside the top 150 and became a non-member.


 * 21a. Top 125 (medical)
 * 🇿🇦 Charl Schwartzel*


 * 21b. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Chappell (20)
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Kirk* (6)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Stadler (22)
 * 🇨🇦 Graham DeLaet (24)
 * 🇺🇸 William McGirt (28)
 * 🇺🇸 James Hahn* (14)
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair (16)
 * 🇺🇸 Morgan Hoffmann (3)
 * 🇺🇸 Jamie Lovemark (16)
 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Grayson Murray (8)
 * 🇺🇸 Hudson Swafford* (3)
 * 🇺🇸 Wesley Bryan (7)
 * 🇺🇸 John Huh (15)
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Seung-yul (22)
 * 🇺🇸 Kelly Kraft (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Briny Baird (9)
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Blixt (23)
 * 🇺🇸 Harrison Frazar (3)
 * 🇦🇺 Greg Chalmers (2)
 * 🇺🇸 D. A. Points (12)

Swafford won in his second start. Kirk and Hahn met their terms in January. Chalmers's extension expired in October, Points's in May, Huh's in June, and O'Hair's and Frazar's in July; all fell to past champion status, but Huh made it through the Finals. Villegas's expired in March, but he had earned conditional status and fell to the conditional category; he finished in the 126–150 range and maintained conditional status in 2022. Murray's expired in February and he fell to the reshuffle category, eventually receiving another medical extension for 2022. Lovemark's expired in June and he became a non-member. Chappell, Stadler, DeLaet, McGirt, Hoffmann, Bryan, Noh, Kraft, Baird, and Blixt received carry-overs.


 * 22. Korn Ferry Tour and Finals leading money-winners


 * 23. Medical extension


 * 25. Players from cats 19–26 who finished outside the top 125


 * 🇦🇷 Fabián Gómez
 * 🇪🇸 Rafa Cabrera-Bello
 * 🇺🇸 Bronson Burgoon
 * 🇺🇸 Chase Seiffert
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Stanley*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Wallace*
 * 🇺🇸 Chesson Hadley*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Malnati*
 * 🇺🇸 Rob Oppenheim
 * 🇻🇪 Jhonattan Vegas*
 * 🇺🇸 Hank Lebioda*
 * 🇺🇸 Joseph Bramlett
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Percy
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Streb*
 * 🇳🇿 Tim Wilkinson
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Hagy*
 * 🇺🇸 D. J. Trahan
 * 🇳🇴 Kristoffer Ventura
 * 🇩🇰 Sebastian Cappelen
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Anderson
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley
 * 🇨🇦 David Hearn
 * 🇺🇸 Tyler McCumber*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Baker
 * 🇿🇦 Branden Grace*
 * 🇨🇦 Michael Gligic
 * 🇨🇦 Roger Sloan*
 * 🇺🇸 Kramer Hickok*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Stroud
 * Martin Laird*
 * 🇺🇸 Vincent Whaley
 * 🇺🇸 Doug Ghim*
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Spaun
 * 🇹🇭 Kiradech Aphibarnrat
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Every
 * 🇦🇺 Rhein Gibson
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Brehm
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Gellerman
 * 🇵🇷 Rafael Campos (holdover rookie)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Taylor
 * 🇦🇷 Nelson Ledesma
 * 🇮🇳 Anirban Lahiri*
 * 🇩🇰 Lucas Bjerregaard
 * 🇦🇺 John Senden
 * 🇺🇸 Vince Covello

Those finishing in the 126–150 range were Percy, Seiffert, Whaley, Gligic, and Bramlett. Whaley, Gligic, and Bramlett made it through the Finals; Percy received a minor medical extension, and Seiffert fell to conditional status. Those finishing below 150th were Campos, Burgoon, Oppenheim, Hearn, Ventura, Cabrera-Bello, Spaun, Anderson, Brehm, Ben Taylor, Gómez, Trahan, Ledesma, Gibson, Aphibarnrat, Cappelen, Baker, Baddeley, Gellerman, Watney, Wilkinson, Senden, Stroud, Bjerregaard, Every, and Covello. Watney used a career money exemption for 2022; Burgoon, Spaun, and Aphibarnrat made it through the Finals; Wilkinson, Stroud, and Covello received major medical extensions and Hearn, Cappelen, Brehm, and Trahan minors. Baddeley, Senden, and Every fell to past champion status, while the other 12 became non-members.

Grayson Murray fell to this category in February after his medical extension expired; he received another medical extension for 2022.


 * 26. 300 career cuts made


 * 27. Reshuffle medical


 * 🇺🇸 Chad Collins (4)
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Knous (6)

Both received carry-overs.

One player achieved this:
 * 28. Three-time Korn Ferry Tour winners in the current year


 * 🇨🇱 Mito Pereira


 * 29. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington (11)

Harrington fell to past champion status after his extension expired in May.


 * 30. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Josh Teater
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink*
 * 🇮🇪 Séamus Power*
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Martin
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Uihlein
 * 🇺🇸 Wes Roach
 * 🇺🇸 Zack Sucher
 * 🇺🇸 Dominic Bozzelli
 * 🇺🇸 Shawn Stefani
 * 🇺🇸 Roberto Castro
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas
 * 🇺🇸 Johnson Wagner
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Blaum
 * 🇩🇪 Martin Kaymer

Haas used a career money exemption for 2022; Uihlein made it through the finals, and Blaum received a medical extension. Martin, Wagner, and Kaymer fell to past champion status, while the other six became non-members.


 * 31. Non-exempt medical extension

Camilo Villegas fell to conditional status in March after his medical extension expired; he finished in the 126–150 range and maintained conditional status for 2022.

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


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Westwood*
 * 🇸🇪 David Lingmerth

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


 * 🇿🇦 Garrick Higgo*

The following non-members finished the equivalent of top 200 on the FedEx Cup points list (^ denotes those eligible for full PGA Tour membership in 2022):


 * 🇺🇸 Will Zalatoris^
 * Robert MacIntyre
 * 🇿🇦 Christiaan Bezuidenhout
 * 🇫🇷 Victor Perez
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Suh
 * 🇦🇹 Bernd Wiesberger
 * 🇺🇸 Ollie Schniederjans
 * 🇮🇹 Guido Migliozzi
 * 🇦🇺 Lucas Herbert
 * 🇧🇪 Thomas Pieters
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aaron Rai
 * 🇨🇦 Taylor Pendrith
 * 🇺🇸 Alex Smalley
 * 🇺🇸 Akshay Bhatia
 * 🇺🇸 Sahith Theegala
 * 🇫🇷 Antoine Rozner

Zalatoris accepted membership for 2022. Zalatoris accepted STM in November and MacIntyre in August. Bezuidenhout, Herbert, Rai, Smalley, and Theegala were successful in the Finals; MacIntyre, Suh, Schniederjans, and Bhatia were not. Matthias Schwab and Kurt Kitayama were eligible for the Finals based on non-member points earned in 2020; both were successful in the Finals. Pendrith graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour.

Thirty players not listed made it from the Korn Ferry Tour to the PGA Tour for 2022 (23 via the regular-season points list including European Tour winner David Lipsky, 7 via the Finals).