Inside the Field: Valspar Championship

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All-time shots from the Valspar Championship

The PGA TOUR uses a standardized system for determining event fields, based off the current season’s Priority Ranking while also including additional exemption and qualifying categories.

Field sizes can vary by event, as can the number of event-specific exemptions. Fully exempt PGA TOUR members are guaranteed entry into all full-field events, with various conditional categories subject to periodic reshuffles based upon FedExCup Points accrued throughout the season. Categories with 'reshuffle' notation indicate that a reshuffle period has occurred.

Valspar Championship field list as of Friday, March 11 at 5 p.m. ET:

Check here for updates.

Winner of U.S. Open Championship (five-year exemption)
Dustin Johnson
Brooks Koepka

Winner of PGA Championship (five-year exemption)
Collin Morikawa
Justin Thomas
Jimmy Walker
Gary Woodland

Winner of THE PLAYERS Championship (five-year exemption)
Jason Day
Webb Simpson

Winner of Masters Tournament (five-year exemption)
Danny Willett

Winner of The Open (five-year exemption)
Shane Lowry
Francesco Molinari
Henrik Stenson

Winner of World Golf Championships event (three-year exemption)
Abraham Ancer
Kevin Kisner
Xander Schauffele
Bubba Watson

Winner of Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial Tournament and Genesis Invitational (three-year exemption)
Tyrrell Hatton

Career money exemption
Luke Donald
Bill Haas

* Sponsor's exemption (Korn Ferry Tour Finals)
Kurt Kitayama
Dylan Wu

Sponsor's exemption (members not otherwise exempt)
Tommy Fleetwood
Martin Kaymer

Sponsor's exemption (unrestricted)
Alex Fitzpatrick
Sean O'Hair
Jackson Suber
Bernd Wiesberger

PGA Club Professional Champion - 6 Events.
Omar Uresti

PGA Section Champion\Player of the Year.
Greg Koch

Monday qualifiers
Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Luke Guthrie
Blake Kennedy
Andrew McCain

Past Champion of respective event
Adam Hadwin
Life Member.
Davis Love III

# Major medical extension
Danny Lee
William McGirt
Wesley Bryan
Seung-Yul Noh
Kelly Kraft
Jonas Blixt

Korn Ferry Tour Points winners (The 25 and The Finals 25)
Stephan Jaeger
Joseph Bramlett

Three-Victory Promotion via Korn Ferry Tour
Mito Pereira

Top-10 and ties from previous TOUR event
Cameron Percy
Vaughn Taylor
Mark Hensby
Tommy Gainey
Matthias Schwab
Chun-an Yu
Max McGreevy
Brandon Wu
Callum Tarren
Chad Ramey

Korn Ferry Tour graduates via The 25 and The Finals 25 (reshuffled)
Sahith Theegala
J.J. Spaun
Hayden Buckley
Taylor Moore
Lee Hodges
Vince Whaley
Alex Smalley
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Greyson Sigg
Davis Riley
Adam Svensson
Trey Mullinax
David Lipsky
John Huh
Paul Barjon
Seth Reeves
Austin Smotherman
Curtis Thompson
Andrew Novak
Bronson Burgoon
Austin Cook

The PGA TOUR uses a standardized system for determining event fields, based off the current season’s Priority Ranking while also including additional exemption and qualifying categories.

Field sizes can vary by event, as can the number of event-specific exemptions. Fully exempt PGA TOUR members are guaranteed entry into all full-field events, with various conditional categories subject to periodic reshuffles based upon FedExCup Points accrued throughout the season. Categories with 'reshuffle' notation indicate that a reshuffle period has occurred.

* = If all prior year Korn Ferry Tour graduates are eligible for event, exemptions become unrestricted

# = Latest medical extension information can be found here.

$ = Category breakdown can be found here.

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Inside the Field: Valspar Championship

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