Qualifiers for all 2024 Signature Events, THE PLAYERS and majors
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The latest seasons within the season concluded on Sunday with The Open Championship and the Barracuda Championship.
The focus of this page always has been locked onto the majors, THE PLAYERS Championship and other premier tournaments. This season, the Signature Events were added. That series ended with the Travelers Championship in June. Now the majors and the Additional Events are done until 2025.
Xander Schauffele piled on in the most impressive way with a two-stroke victory at Royal Troon.
His second win in the last three majors (PGA Championship) exempts the 30-year-old into The Open through his age-55 season of 2049. (The R&A modified its provision for Open champions from the age 60 to 55 effective this year.) Schauffele’s win at the PGA Championship exempt him for life into that major and the next five editions of the Masters, while Sunday’s title at The Open extends his exemption into the U.S. Open also through 2029. His PGA TOUR membership exemption already was maxed out to the same year when he broke through at Valhalla Golf Club in May. It also secured berths into the 2025 editions of The Sentry and THE PLAYERS.
Other exemptions traditionally are up for grabs at The Open.
In addition to Schauffele, Billy Horschel (T2), Justin Rose (T2) and Thriston Lawrence (4th) have earned invitations to the Masters next year as top-four finishers in The Open, while all 12 who finished inside the top 10 at Royal Troon can plan on tee times at Royal Portrush for the 2025 Open. Incidentally, Schauffele was the only golfer who finished inside the top 15 of every major this year, and his worst result was a solo eighth at the Masters. He also has an active streak of 11 top 20s in the majors.
Later on Sunday, Nick Dunlap prevailed at the Barracuda, thus becoming the first in TOUR history to win as an amateur (The American Express) and a professional in the same season. He’s also now next year’s PLAYERS, Masters and PGA Championship. Because he’s now a two-time winner this season, his membership extension is extended one year through 2027.
NOTE: The opening edition of this page for the 2025 season will publish soon.
Rob Bolton is a Golfbet columnist for the PGA TOUR. The Chicagoland native has been playing fantasy golf since 1994, so he was just waiting for the Internet to catch up with him. Follow Rob Bolton on Twitter.