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2021-22 Qualifiers for THE PLAYERS and the majors
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May 15, 2022
By Rob Bolton , PGATOUR.COM
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Joel Dahmen will be be making his fourth consecutive start in the PGA Championship. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
This is like the calm between two storms.
Last week’s torrent presented dozens of qualifiers and a series of midweek updates for the PGA Championship. As detailed in REMAINING QUALIYFING CRITERIA at the bottom, next week’s update to the Official World Golf Ranking will send its top 60 into the U.S. Open and the top 50 into The Open Championship. Of course, many already have booked travel and lodging for both majors, but entries won’t be official until then.
In this slot is the simple notice that the field of 156 at Southern Hills Country Club finally is full. When K.H. Lee successfully defended his title at the AT&T Byron Nelson on Sunday, Joel Dahmen slid into the major as the last man. He was first alternate at the time and Lee already was exempt.
Earlier in the day, Paul Casey (back) and Sungjae Im (travel challenges due to COVID-19) withdrew. They gave way to Russell Knox and Scott Stallings.
As of Sunday night, Denny McCarthy (89th in PGA Championship Points), Sam Ryder (90th) and Pat Perez (92nd) are the first three alternates.
Also on Sunday, Shugo Imahira emerged with a one-stroke victory over four runners-up at the Asia-Pacific Open Golf Championship and secured his third exemption into The Open Championship. The tournament held in his native Japan was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the Japan Golf Tour, the latter on which he was the Order of Merit winner in 2018 and 2019.
NOTE: Golfers are omitted if they recently haven’t competed in majors for which they are eligible (e.g. The Open Championship=Justin Leonard).
PGA = PGA Championship
US = U.S. Open
OPEN = The Open ChampionshipRecent Additions
PGA -- Joel Dahmen; Russell Knox; Scott Stallings
US -- none
OPEN -- Shugo ImahiraGolfer Qualified Abraham Ancer PGA, US, OPEN Adri Arnaus PGA Alex Beach PGA Rich Beem PGA Oliver Bekker PGA Daniel Berger PGA, US, OPEN Christiaan Bezuidenhout PGA Brandon Bingaman PGA Alexander Björk OPEN Richard Bland PGA, OPEN Michael Block PGA Matt Borchert PGA Keegan Bradley PGA Ryan Brehm PGA Dean Burmester PGA, OPEN Sam Burns PGA, US, OPEN Ben Campbell OPEN Laurie Canter PGA, OPEN Patrick Cantlay PGA, US, OPEN Paul Casey PGA, US, OPEN (will not compete in the PGA Championship) Alex Cejka PGA Cameron Champ PGA Ashley Chesters OPEN Stewart Cink PGA, US, OPEN Darren Clarke OPEN Tyler Collet PGA Corey Conners PGA, US, OPEN Joel Dahmen PGA John Daly PGA, OPEN Cam Davis PGA Jason Day PGA Bryson DeChambeau PGA, US, OPEN Thomas Detry OPEN Paul Dickinson PGA Stephen Dodd OPEN Jason Dufner PGA Nick Dunlap US (must remain an amteur to compete) David Duval OPEN Ernie Els OPEN Harris English PGA, US, OPEN (will not compete in the PGA Championship) Tim Feenstra PGA Jorge Fernández-Valdés OPEN Tony Finau PGA, US, OPEN Matt Fitzpatrick PGA, OPEN Tommy Fleetwood PGA, OPEN Rickie Fowler PGA Ryan Fox PGA Dylan Frittelli OPEN Jim Furyk US Sergio Garcia PGA, US, OPEN Lucas Glover PGA Talor Gooch PGA, OPEN Branden Grace PGA, US Austin Greaser US (must remain an amateur to compete) Lanto Griffin PGA Matthew Griffin OPEN Adam Hadwin PGA Stewart Hagestad US (must remain an amateur to compete) Todd Hamilton OPEN Justin Harding PGA, OPEN Brian Harman PGA Padraig Harrington PGA, OPEN Tyrrell Hatton PGA, OPEN Russell Henley PGA Lucas Herbert PGA, OPEN Kramer Hickok PGA Kazuki Higa PGA (will not compete) Garrick Higgo PGA, OPEN Harry Higgs PGA Tom Hoge PGA Nicolai Højgaard PGA, OPEN Max Homa PGA, US Billy Horschel PGA, US, OPEN Sam Horsfield PGA Rikuya Hoshino PGA Beau Hossler PGA Viktor Hovland PGA, US, OPEN Mackenzie Hughes PGA, OPEN Austin Hurt PGA Sungjae Im PGA, US, OPEN (will not compete in the PGA Championship) Shugo Imahira OPEN Yuki Inamori PGA Colin Inglis PGA Nic Ishee PGA Aaron Jarvis OPEN (must remain an amateur to compete) Dustin Johnson PGA, US, OPEN Zach Johnson PGA, OPEN Jared Jones PGA Matt Jones PGA Sadom Kaewkanjana PGA, OPEN Takumi Kanaya PGA, OPEN Yuto Katsuragawa OPEN Martin Kaymer PGA, US Bio Kim PGA Chan Kim PGA, OPEN Joohyung (Tom) Kim PGA, OPEN Si Woo Kim PGA Sihwan Kim OPEN Ryosuke Kinoshita PGA Chris Kirk PGA, OPEN Kevin Kisner PGA Patton Kizzire PGA Russell Knox PGA Brooks Koepka PGA, US, OPEN Jason Kokrak PGA, US, OPEN Jinichiro Kozuma PGA Matt Kuchar PGA Anirban Lahiri PGA Pablo Larrazábal PGA Thriston Lawrence OPEN Paul Lawrie OPEN K.H. Lee PGA Min Woo Lee PGA, OPEN Marc Leishman PGA Luke List PGA Zander Lombard OPEN Davis Love III PGA (will not compete) Shane Lowry PGA, US, OPEN Robert MacIntyre PGA, OPEN Hideki Matsuyama PGA, US, OPEN Sean McCarty PGA Rory McIlroy PGA, US, OPEN Maverick McNealy PGA Kyle Mendoza PGA Troy Merritt PGA Shaun Micheel PGA Phil Mickelson PGA, US, OPEN (will not compete in the PGA Championship) Guido Migliozzi US, OPEN Keith Mitchell PGA Francesco Molinari PGA, US, OPEN Jedian Morgan US, OPEN Collin Morikawa PGA, US, OPEN Jesse Mueller PGA Sebastián Muñoz PGA Kevin Na PGA, US, OPEN Keita Nakajima US, OPEN (must remain an amateur to compete in both) Dylan Newman PGA Joaquin Niemann PGA, US, OPEN Alex Noren PGA Shaun Norris PGA, US, OPEN Zac Oakley PGA Louis Oosthuizen PGA, US, OPEN Carlos Ortiz PGA Ryan Palmer PGA Dimitrios Papadatos OPEN Mito Pereira PGA Thomas Pieters PGA, OPEN James Piot US, OPEN (must remain an amateur to compete in The Open Championship) Ian Poulter PGA, OPEN Seamus Power PGA Casey Pyne PGA Jon Rahm PGA, US, OPEN Chad Ramey PGA Patrick Reed PGA, US, OPEN David Riley PGA Justin Rose PGA, US, OPEN Xander Schauffele PGA, US, OPEN Scottie Scheffler PGA, US, OPEN Adam Schenk PGA Charl Schwartzel PGA Adam Scott PGA Jason Scrivener OPEN Laird Shepherd US (must remain an amateur to compete) Webb Simpson PGA, US Vijay Singh PGA (will not compete) Cameron Smith PGA, US, OPEN J.J. Spaun PGA Jordan Spieth PGA, US, OPEN Scott Stallings PGA Brendan Steele PGA Henrik Stenson PGA, OPEN Sepp Straka PGA Kevin Streelman PGA Hudson Swafford PGA Justin Thomas PGA, US, OPEN Cameron Tringale PGA Erik van Rooyen PGA, US, OPEN Daniel van Tonder PGA Harold Varner III PGA Jhonattan Vegas PGA Ryan Vermeer PGA Jimmy Walker PGA, OPEN (will not compete in the PGA Championship) Shawn Warren PGA Bubba Watson PGA Lee Westwood PGA, OPEN Bernd Wiesberger PGA, OPEN Danny Willett OPEN Aaron Wise PGA Matthew Wolff PGA Gary Woodland PGA, US, OPEN Tiger Woods PGA, US, OPEN Wyatt Worthington II PGA Y.E. Yang PGA Cameron Young PGA Will Zalatoris PGA, OPEN REMAINING QUALIFYING CRITERIA
Criteria are listed in chronological order where possible. Best estimates are given but all are subject to change.
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP (PGA) @ Southern Hills Country Club – May 19-22
• Field is complete.U.S. OPEN (US) @ The Country Club – June 16-19
• Winners of multiple PGA TOUR events that award full FedExCup points allocation since the 2021 U.S. Open.
• Winner of the PGA Championship (May 22).
• Top 60 of Official World Golf Ranking (May 23).
• Top finisher, not otherwise exempt, from the 2020-21-22 Order of Merit on the Asian Tour (May 23).
• Top finisher, not otherwise exempt, from the 2021-22 Order of Merit on the Australasian Tour (May 23).
• Top finisher, not otherwise exempt, from the 2021-22 Order of Merit on the Sunshine Tour (May 23).
• Final qualifying at one site in Japan (May 23).
• Final qualifying at one site in the United States (May 23).
• Top 10, not otherwise exempt, in aggregate DP WORLD Tour points from Betfred British Masters (May 8), Soudal Open (May 15), Dutch Open (May 29) and Porsche European Open (June 5).
• Top 60 of Official World Golf Ranking (June 6).
• Final qualifying at one site in Canada (June 6).
• Final qualifying at eight sites in the United States (June 6).
• Special exemptions per the USGA.
THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP (OPEN) @ St. Andrews Links (Old Course) – July 14-17
• Winner of the PGA Championship (May 22).
• Top 50 of Official World Golf Ranking (May 23).
• Top 4, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 12 at the Mizuno Open (May 29).
• Top 3, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 10 at the Dutch Open (May 29).
• Highest-ranked, not otherwise exempt, from the Order of Merit on the Japan Golf Tour at the conclusion of the Japan Golf Tour Championship (June 5).
• Top 2, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 8 at the RBC Canadian Open (June 12).
• Winner of the British Amateur, if still an amateur (June 18).
• Winner of the U.S. Open (June 19).
• Winner of the European Amateur Championship, if still an amateur (June 25).
• Top 2, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 8 at the KOLON Korea Open (June 26).
• Top 5 and ties, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 20 in the DP World Tour Rankings at the conclusion of the BMW International Open (June 26).
• Top 5 and ties, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 20 in the FedExCup at the conclusion of the Travelers Championship (June 26).
• Final Qualifying. Top 3 at each of four sites: Fairmont St. Andrews, Hollinwell (Notts), Prince's, St. Annes Old Links (June 28).
• Top 3, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 10 at the Irish Open (July 3).
• Top 3, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 10 at the John Deere Classic (July 3).
• Top 3, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 10 at the Genesis Scottish Open (July 10).
• Top finisher, not otherwise exempt, inside the top 5 at the Barbasol Championship (July 10). -
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