User:Phinumu/PGA Tour players/2023


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

Bold text – Denotes a player who won in 2023.


 * 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.)


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Fitzpatrick* (2027)
 * 🇪🇸 Jon Rahm (2027) – moves to cat 8 in 2027
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Thomas* (2027)
 * 🇺🇸 Collin Morikawa* (2026)
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Woodland* (2025)

Wyndham Clark was promoted to this category after his win and extended his exemption to 2028. Rahm extended his exemption to 2028, and would move to cat 3 in 2027; however, he went to LIV. Fitzpatrick extended his 2028 and Morikawa to 2027, in which years each would move to cat 8. Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship but was ineligible for membership.


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


 * Rory McIlroy* (2027) – moves to cat 7 in 2026
 * 🇺🇸 Webb Simpson (2026) – moves to cat 8 in 2025
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Si-woo* (2024) – moves to cat 8 in 2024

Scottie Scheffler moved to this category after his win and had already extended his exemption to 2028. McIlroy extended his exemption to 2028, in which year he would move to cat 8. Kim extended his to 2025.


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


 * 🇯🇵 Hideki Matsuyama* (2027) – moves to cat 8 in 2027
 * 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler* (2027)
 * 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods (2026) – moves to cat 8 in 2026


 * 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 8 in 2025
 * 🇺🇸 Jordan Spieth* (2025) – moves to cat 8 in 2024

Brian Harman was promoted to this category after his win and earned an exemption through 2028.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Xander Schauffele* (2027) – moves to cat 8 in 2024
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Horschel* (2025) – moves to cat 6 in 2025
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Kisner (2024) – moves to cat 8 in 2024

Sam Burns was promoted to this category after his WGC Match Play win and extended his exemption to 2027, in which year he would move back to cat 8.


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


 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Cantlay* (2027) – moves to cat 7 in 2025 and cat 8 in 2027
 * 🇺🇸 Max Homa* (2026) – moves to cat 8 in 2025
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tyrrell Hatton* (2024)
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Scott* (2024)

Kurt Kitayama was promoted to this category after his Arnold Palmer win and earned an exemption through 2026. Viktor Hovland moved to this category after his Memorial win and extended his exemption to 2026. Afterwards he won the FedEx Cup, earning an exemption to 2028; he would move to cat 7 in 2027. Homa extended his exemption to 2028. Hatton extended his to 2025 by making the Tour Championship.

Rose extended his exemption to 2025, in which year he would move to cat 8.
 * 7. The winner of the FedEx Cup in each of the last five calendar years
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Rose* (2024)


 * 8. 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.


 * 🇺🇸 Sam Burns* (2026)
 * 🇺🇸 Tony Finau* (2025)
 * 🇳🇴 Viktor Hovland* (2025)
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Berger (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Brehm (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Champ (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Stewart Cink (2024)
 * 🇦🇺 Jason Day* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Harris English* (2024)
 * 🇦🇺 Lucas Herbert (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Hoge* (2024)
 * 🇰🇷 Im Sung-jae* (2024)
 * 🇰🇷 Tom Kim* (2024)
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Kyoung-hoon* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Luke List* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Trey Mullinax (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 J. T. Poston* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Ramey* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Chez Reavie* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 J. J. Spaun* (2024)
 * 🇦🇹 Sepp Straka* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Brendon Todd* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Will Zalatoris (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Joel Dahmen*
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Davis*
 * 🇺🇸 Tyler Duncan*
 * 🇺🇸 Rickie Fowler*
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Gay
 * 🇺🇸 Lucas Glover*
 * 🇺🇸 Lanto Griffin
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Herman
 * 🇿🇦 Garrick Higgo*
 * 🇺🇸 Matt Kuchar*
 * Martin Laird*
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Landry
 * 🇨🇴 Sebastián Muñoz
 * 🇮🇪 Séamus Power*
 * 🇺🇸 Robert Streb
 * 🇨🇦 Nick Taylor*
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Thompson
 * 🇿🇦 Erik van Rooyen*
 * 🇺🇸 Richy Werenski

Not including Wyndham Clark, who was later promoted to cat 1, eighteen players moved into this category during the season; of these, Keegan Bradley earned an exemption through 2026 with two wins, while Akshay Bhatia's exemption only went through 2024. Finau extended his exemption to 2027 with two wins; Glover and Tom Kim likewise earned exemptions through 2026. Day, List, and Straka extended theirs to 2025. Im extended his to 2025 by making the Tour Championship.

Werenski, Griffin, Streb, Thompson, Herman, Gay, and Landry all finished outside the top 150. Griffin and Thompson received major medical extensions; the rest fell to past champion status.


 * 9a. Career money exemptions – top 50


 * 🇿🇦 Tim Clark
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Dufner
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Moore*
 * 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Walker

Walker finished in the 126–150 range and fell to conditional status. Dufner and Singh finished below that and fell to past champion status. Clark might receive another carry-over; still TBA.


 * 9b. Career money exemptions – top 25


 * 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson
 * 🇿🇦 Rory Sabbatini

Brandt Snedeker chose to use his top 25 exemption after his minor medical expired in July. All three players finished outside 150th; Johnson used a top 50 exemption for 2024 and the others fell to past champion status.

Love failed to meet the requirements to stay in this category and used a top 25 career money exemption for 2024.
 * 16. Life members
 * 🇺🇸 Davis Love III


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


 * 🇺🇸 Aaron Wise (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Cameron Young* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Harman* (2024)
 * 🇨🇦 Corey Conners* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Sahith Theegala* (2024)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Stallings* (2024)


 * 18. 31–125 on the previous year’s FedExCup points list


 * 🇺🇸 Davis Riley*
 * 🇺🇸 Denny McCarthy*
 * 🇺🇸 Maverick McNealy
 * 🇺🇸 Keith Mitchell*
 * 🇺🇸 Kurt Kitayama*
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Henley*
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Putnam*
 * 🇨🇦 Taylor Pendrith*
 * 🇨🇱 Mito Pereira
 * 🇿🇦 Christiaan Bezuidenhout*
 * 🇦🇷 Emiliano Grillo*
 * 🇺🇸 Keegan Bradley*
 * 🇨🇦 Mackenzie Hughes*
 * 🇺🇸 Brendan Steele
 * 🇺🇸 Troy Merritt*
 * 🇨🇦 Adam Hadwin*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tommy Fleetwood*
 * 🇺🇸 Taylor Moore*
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Kirk*
 * 🇸🇪 Alex Norén*
 * 🇺🇸 Alex Smalley*
 * 🇺🇸 Wyndham Clark*
 * 🇺🇸 Lee Hodges*
 * 🇺🇸 John Huh
 * 🇺🇸 Beau Hossler*
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Wu*
 * 🇺🇸 Matthew NeSmith*
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Long
 * 🇿🇦 Dylan Frittelli
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Palmer
 * 🇺🇸 David Lipsky*
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Schenk*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aaron Rai*
 * 🇩🇪 Stephan Jäger*
 * 🇺🇸 Patrick Rodgers*
 * Russell Knox
 * 🇨🇦 Adam Svensson*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Streelman*
 * 🇺🇸 Mark Hubbard*
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Malnati*
 * 🇳🇿 Danny Lee
 * 🇺🇸 Hayden Buckley*
 * 🇹🇼 Pan Cheng-tsung
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Ryder*
 * 🇺🇸 Vince Whaley
 * 🇻🇪 Jhonattan Vegas
 * 🇺🇸 Nate Lashley*
 * 🇺🇸 James Hahn
 * 🇺🇸 Greyson Sigg*
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Piercy
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Callum Tarren*
 * 🇺🇸 Max McGreevy
 * 🇺🇸 Chesson Hadley*
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Watney
 * 🇺🇸 Doug Ghim*
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Tway
 * 🇦🇹 Matthias Schwab
 * 🇺🇸 Patton Kizzire
 * 🇺🇸 Kramer Hickok
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Wallace*
 * 🇺🇸 Austin Smotherman
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Lower*
 * 🇺🇸 Doc Redman
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Danny Willett*
 * 🇺🇸 Kelly Kraft

Fleetwood and Schenk earned exemptions through 2025 by making the Tour Championship.

Players finishing in the 126–150 range were McNealy, Kizzire, Pan, Palmer, Piercy, Hickok, Smotherman, Long, Schwab, Knox, Kraft, and Whaley. McNealy, Pan, and Whaley received major medical extensions; the rest fell to conditional status. Tway, Redman, Hahn, Frittelli, McGreevy, Vegas, Watney, and Huh finished outside the top 150. Vegas and Huh received major medical extensions, and Hahn a minor. Tway, Frittelli, and Watney fell to past champion status; Redman and McGreevy became non-members.


 * 19. Non-member top 125


 * 20. Major Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Stanley (9)
 * 🇺🇸 Bud Cauley (27)
 * 🇺🇸 J. B. Holmes (26)
 * 🇺🇸 Zac Blair* (24)
 * 🇺🇸 Tyler McCumber (16)

Blair met his terms in July. Nick Hardy was promoted to this category in September 2022 after meeting the terms of his minor medical; he then moved to cat 8 after winning. Stanley fell to past champion status after his extension expired in April.


 * 21. Korn Ferry Tour and Finals leading money-winners
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Suh* (first-time member)


 * 22. Medical extension


 * 24. Korn Ferry Tour 2-25 and Finals 2-25


 * 🇨🇳 Yuan Yechun* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Will Gordon*
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Haley II
 * 🇸🇪 David Lingmerth*
 * 🇨🇳 Dou Zecheng
 * 🇺🇸 Austin Eckroat* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Robby Shelton*
 * 🇺🇸 Philip Knowles (rookie)
 * 🇿🇦 M. J. Daffue (first-time member)
 * 🇨🇦 Michael Gligic
 * 🇺🇸 Taylor Montgomery* (rookie)
 * 🇿🇦 Dean Burmester (rookie)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Taylor*
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Cole* (rookie)
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Seong-hyeon* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Joseph Bramlett*
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Hall* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Austin Cook
 * 🇺🇸 Brandon Matthews (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Nick Hardy*
 * 🇦🇷 Augusto Núñez (rookie)
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Norlander
 * 🇰🇷 An Byeong-hun*
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Martin*
 * 🇺🇸 Erik Barnes (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Armour
 * 🇺🇸 Ben Griffin* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Nicholas Lindheim
 * 🇺🇸 Davis Thompson* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brent Grant (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Kim*
 * 🇺🇸 Carson Young* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Tyson Alexander* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Harrington
 * 🇦🇺 Harrison Endycott (rookie)
 * 🇧🇪 Thomas Detry* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Trevor Werbylo (rookie)
 * 🇦🇷 Estanislao Goya (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Roy (rookie)
 * 🇨🇴 Nico Echavarría* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Anders Albertson
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Stevens* (rookie)
 * 🇹🇼 Yu Chun-an* (rookie)
 * 🇩🇪 Matti Schmid* (rookie)
 * 🇸🇪 Vincent Norrman* (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brice Garnett
 * 🇺🇸 Trevor Cone (rookie)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Stuard
 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Westmoreland (rookie)

Hardy met the terms of his minor medical in his first start and was promoted to cat 20 before later winning.

Norlander, Dou, Daffue, Endycott, Cook, and Haley finished in the 126–150 range; Endycott made it through Q School and the others fell to conditional status. Goya, Roy, Garnett, Armour, Grant, Cone, Núñez, Barnes, Harrington, Werbylo, Westmoreland, Stuard, Matthews, Lindheim, Gligic, Albertson, and Knowles finished outside 150th. Lindheim received a major medical and also finished in the top 30 of the Korn Ferry Tour points list. Barnes, Matthews, Albertson, and Knowles also received major medicals. Garnett, Armour, and Stuard fell to past champion status; Goya, Roy, Grant, Cone, Núñez, Harrington, Werbylo, Westmoreland, and Gligic became non-members.


 * 25. PGA Tour University leader and PGA Tour University Accelerated (beginning in June)
 * 🇸🇪 Ludvig Åberg* (rookie)


 * 26. 300 career cuts made


 * 27. Reshuffle medical


 * 🇺🇸 Chris Stroud (7)
 * 🇺🇸 Bronson Burgoon (13)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Collins (4)
 * 🇳🇿 Tim Wilkinson (7)
 * 🇺🇸 Vince Covello (17)

Stroud fell to past champion status after his extension expired in February. Collins's expired in July and he became a non-member.


 * 28. Three-time Korn Ferry Tour winners in the current year


 * 29. Minor Medical Extension


 * 🇺🇸 Brandt Snedeker (5)
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Gutschewski (1)

Gutschewski's extension expired in October 2022 but he graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour. Snedeker's expired in July and he used a top 25 career money exemption; he finished outside the top 150 and fell to past champion status for 2024.


 * 30. 126–150 from money list


 * 🇺🇸 Harry Higgs
 * 🇺🇸 Martin Trainer
 * 🇺🇸 Hank Lebioda
 * 🇦🇺 Cameron Percy
 * 🇺🇸 Andrew Novak*
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Byrd
 * 🇺🇸 Charley Hoffman
 * 🇯🇵 Satoshi Kodaira
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Haas
 * 🇺🇸 Dylan Wu*

Hoffman and Higgs finished in the 126–150 range, maintaining the same status. Kodaira, Percy, Trainer, Lebioda, Byrd, and Haas finished below 150th. Haas received a medical extension; Kodaira, Trainer, and Byrd fell to past champion status, and Percy and Lebioda became non-members.


 * 31. Non-exempt medical extension

Besides Stroud, the following past champions finished in the top 200 of the adjusted FedEx Cup points list:
 * Notable past champions


 * 🇨🇴 Camilo Villegas*
 * 🇦🇺 Aaron Baddeley*
 * 🇺🇸 Cody Gribble
 * 🇺🇸 Sean O'Hair
 * 🇰🇷 Noh Seung-yul
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Chappell
 * 🇺🇸 Grayson Murray
 * 🇺🇸 Wesley Bryan
 * 🇮🇪 Pádraig Harrington
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Donald
 * 🇺🇸 William McGirt
 * 🇰🇷 Kang Sung-hoon
 * 🇸🇪 Jonas Blixt

Murray graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour.

One non-member won and accepted membership:
 * Notable non-members
 * 🇺🇸 Akshay Bhatia*

Bhatia accepted STM in March. Because it was a co-sanctioned alternate event, the win only earned him an exemption through 2024.

The following non-members (excluding LIV players) finished the equivalent of top 200 on the adjusted FedEx Cup points list (^ denotes those eligible for full PGA Tour membership in 2024):


 * 🇦🇺 Min Woo Lee^
 * 🇩🇰 Nicolai Højgaard^
 * 🇳🇿 Ryan Fox
 * 🇺🇸 Peter Kuest
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan Gerard
 * Robert MacIntyre
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Kimsey
 * 🇯🇵 Ryo Hisatsune
 * 🇵🇱 Adrian Meronk
 * 🇫🇷 Victor Perez
 * 🇺🇸 Cole Hammer
 * 🇯🇵 Ryo Ishikawa
 * 🇺🇸 Sam Bennett

Lee and Højgaard accepted membership for 2024. Gerard and Højgaard accepted STM in April, Fox and Lee in May, and Kuest in July. Fox, MacIntyre, Hisatsune, Meronk, and Perez were among the ten players earning membership through the European Tour, joined by Thorbjørn Olesen, Alexander Björk, Sami Välimäki, Matthieu Pavon, and Jorge Campillo. Kuest, Gerard, Hammer, and Bennett fell short in Q School.

Twenty-nine Korn Ferry Tour members not listed made it to the PGA Tour for 2024, two through Q School and the rest through the points list (including Japan Golf Tour winner Chan Kim). Two players with no PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour status made it through Q School.