2022-2023 Priority Ranking
- Wyndham Clark
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Raymond Floyd
- Al Geiberger
- Collin Morikawa
- Bobby Nichols
- Jack Nicklaus
- Gary Player
- Jon Rahm
- Justin Thomas
- Lee Trevino
- Gary Woodland
Winners prior to prior to 1970 and in the last five seasons and current season
- Si Woo Kim
- Rory McIlroy
- Scottie Scheffler
- Webb Simpson
In the last five seasons and current season
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Tiger Woods
In the last five seasons and the current season
- Brian Harman
- Shane Lowry
- Francesco Molinari
- Jordan Spieth
In the last five seasons and current season
- Sam Burns
- Billy Horschel
- Kevin Kisner
- Xander Schauffele
In the last three seasons and the current season
- Patrick Cantlay
- Viktor Hovland
Winners of the Memorial Tournament in the last 3 years
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Kurt Kitayama
Winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard in the last 3 years
- Max Homa
- Adam Scott
Winner of the Genesis Invitational in the last three years
- Justin Rose
- Ludvig Åberg
- Daniel Berger
- Akshay Bhatia
- Keegan Bradley
- Ryan Brehm
- Cameron Champ
- Stewart Cink
- Corey Conners
- Joel Dahmen
- Cam Davis
- Jason Day
- Tyler Duncan
- Nico Echavarria
- Harris English
- Tony Finau
- Rickie Fowler
- Brian Gay
- Lucas Glover
- Lanto Griffin
- Emiliano Grillo
- Nick Hardy
- Russell Henley
- Lucas Herbert
- Garrick Higgo
- Lee Hodges
- Tom Hoge
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Sungjae Im
- Tom Kim
- Chris Kirk
- Matt Kuchar
- Martin Laird
- K.H. Lee
- Luke List
- Taylor Moore
- Trey Mullinax
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Vincent Norrman
- J.T. Poston
- Seamus Power
- Chad Ramey
- Chez Reavie
- Davis Riley
- J.J. Spaun
- Sepp Straka
- Adam Svensson
- Nick Taylor
- Sahith Theegala
- Brendon Todd
- Erik van Rooyen
- Camilo Villegas
- Matt Wallace
- Will Zalatoris
Winners of PGA TOUR co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, within the last two seasons, or during the current season; winners receive an additional season of exemption for each additional win, up to five seasons:
No players exempt in this category
- Tim Clark
- Zach Johnson
- Ryan Moore
- Rory Sabbatini
- Vijay Singh
- Brandt Snedeker
- Jimmy Walker
A. Players among the Top 50 in career earning as of the end of the preceding season may elect to use a one-time exemption for the next season B. Players among the Top 25 in career earning as of the end of the preceding season may elect to use a one-time exemption for the next season
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Jesse Mueller
Eligible for up to 6 open events (3 must be opposite a PGA TOUR event, World Golf Championships event, and The Open Championship), in addition to any sponsor selections. The exemption does not apply to limited-field open events.
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Davis Love III
PGA TOUR Members who have won at least 20 co-sponsored events while continually maintaining a competitive scoring average.
- Aaron Wise
- Cameron Young
- Scott Stallings
No players exempt in this category
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Denny McCarthy
- Maverick McNealy
- Andrew Putnam
- Eric Cole
- Byeong Hun An
- Adam Hadwin
- Mito Pereira
- Ben Griffin
- Taylor Montgomery
- Brendan Steele
- Troy Merritt
- Sam Ryder
- Alex Noren
- Thomas Detry
- Alex Smalley
- John Huh
- Brandon Wu
- S.H. Kim
- Beau Hossler
- Keith Mitchell
- Matt NeSmith
- Justin Suh
- Adam Long
- Dylan Frittelli
- Sam Stevens
- Ryan Palmer
- Davis Thompson
- David Lipsky
- Adam Schenk
- Austin Eckroat
- Aaron Rai
- Stephan Jaeger
- Patrick Rodgers
- Michael Kim
- Russell Knox
- Ben Taylor
- Kevin Streelman
- Mark Hubbard
- Robby Shelton
- Peter Malnati
- Taylor Pendrith
- Danny Lee
- Callum Tarren
- Hayden Buckley
- Dylan Wu
- C.T. Pan
- Harry Hall
- David Lingmerth
- Vince Whaley
- Greyson Sigg
- Will Gordon
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Nate Lashley
- Carson Young
- Tyson Alexander
- Scott Piercy
- Danny Willett
- Chesson Hadley
- Max McGreevy
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Zac Blair
- Aaron Baddeley
- Joseph Bramlett
- Kevin Yu
- Matthias Schwab
- Patton Kizzire
- Ben Martin
- Kramer Hickok
- Austin Smotherman
- Justin Lower
- Matti Schmid
- Andrew Novak
- Doc Redman
- Doug Ghim
- Kelly Kraft
No players exempt in this category
- Bud Cauley
- J.B. Holmes
- Tyler McCumber
If granted by the Commissioner, if not otherwise eligible, and if needed to fill the field, Special Medical Extension.
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- MJ Daffue
- Zecheng Dou
- Harrison Endycott
- Paul Haley II
- Henrik Norlander
- Carl Yuan
- Tano Goya
- Trevor Cone
- Brent Grant
- Erik Barnes
- Augusto Núñez
- Austin Cook
- Kevin Roy
- Trevor Werbylo
- Scott Harrington
- Brandon Matthews
- Kyle Westmoreland
- Michael Gligic
- Anders Albertson
- Philip Knowles
- Nicholas Lindheim
- Bronson Burgoon
- Tim Wilkinson
- Vince Covello
Note: Periodic reordering shall take place after the conclusion of The RSM Classic and The Genesis Invitational. Thereafter the reorder will occur on the Mondays of the Masters, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and The Open Championship.
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Harry Higgs
- Charley Hoffman
- Hank Lebioda
- Bill Haas
Note: Periodic reordering shall take place after the conclusion of The RSM Classic and The Genesis Invitational. Thereafter the reorder will occur on the Mondays of the Masters, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and The Open Championship.
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Grayson Murray
- Kevin Tway
- Satoshi Kodaira
- Cody Gribble
- Richy Werenski
- James Hahn
- Cameron Percy
- Ryan Armour
- Padraig Harrington
- Jason Dufner
- Sean O'Hair
- Martin Trainer
- Brice Garnett
- S.Y. Noh
- Luke Donald
- Chris Stroud
- Michael Thompson
- Fabián Gómez
- Robert Streb
- Jim Herman
- Kevin Chappell
- Jonathan Byrd
- Sung Kang
- Wesley Bryan
- Brian Stuard
- William McGirt
- Jonas Blixt
- Andrew Landry
- Nick Watney
- Ricky Barnes
- Tommy Gainey
- Geoff Ogilvy
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- Scott Brown
- D.J. Trahan
- Greg Chalmers
- Kyle Stanley
- D.A. Points
- Ben Crane
- Jerry Kelly
- Sangmoon Bae
- Derek Ernst
- Derek Lamely
- Robert Garrigus
- Ernie Els
- Fred Couples
- Mike Weir
- Kevin Stadler
- George McNeill
- Arjun Atwal
- Bo Van Pelt
- Mark Wilson
- Jeff Overton
- Richard Johnson
- Boo Weekley
If not otherwise eligible and as needed to fill the field, Past Champion members, Team Tournament Winners, and Veteran members beyond 150th place on the previous season's FedExCup points list in order of their combined official PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour (through Korn Ferry Tour Championship) money in the previous season
- Hale Irwin
- Tom Kite
- Jim Furyk
- Mark O'Meara
- Corey Pavin
- Kenny Perry
- David Toms
- Mark Calcavecchia
- Steve Stricker
- Justin Leonard
- Scott Hoch
- John Cook
- David Frost
- Stuart Appleby
- Jay Haas
- K.J. Choi
- Fred Funk
- Brad Faxon
- Lee Janzen
- Loren Roberts
- Steve Jones
- Jerry Pate
- Retief Goosen
- John Huston
- Joey Sindelar
- Mark Brooks
- Peter Jacobsen
- Hunter Mahan
- Jeff Sluman
- Rocco Mediate
- Steve Pate
- Sandy Lyle
- Scott Verplank
- Carl Pettersson
- Tom Lehman
- Billy Mayfair
- Jesper Parnevik
- John Daly
- Dan Forsman
- Blaine McCallister
- Robert Allenby
- Chad Campbell
- Bob Estes
- Stephen Ames
- Tim Herron
- Steve Flesch
- Woody Austin
- Heath Slocum
- Joe Durant
- Billy Andrade
- Duffy Waldorf
- Carlos Franco
- Larry Mize
- Notah Begay III
- Chris DiMarco
- Vaughn Taylor
- Jeff Maggert
- John Rollins
- J.J. Henry
- Rod Pampling
- Ángel Cabrera
- Kirk Triplett
- Scott McCarron
- Johnson Wagner
- Bernhard Langer
- Cameron Beckman
- Rich Beem
- Robert Gamez
- Darren Clarke
- Olin Browne
- Gene Sauers
- Gary Hallberg
- John Senden
- Jason Bohn
- Tom Pernice Jr.
- Paul Goydos
- Dudley Hart
- Frank Lickliter II
- Jonathan Kaye
- Matt Every
- Tommy Armour III
- Y.E. Yang
- Will MacKenzie
- Daniel Chopra
- Paul Stankowski
- Len Mattiace
- Steven Bowditch
- Todd Hamilton
- José Coceres
- Ted Tryba
- Keith Clearwater
- Gabriel Hjertstedt
- John Inman
- Kevin Sutherland
- Alex Cejka
- Tim Petrovic
- Harrison Frazar
- Ken Duke
- Andres Romero
- Glen Day
- Ryuji Imada
- John Merrick
- Dean Wilson
- Ted Purdy
- Tom Byrum
- Mark Hensby
- Neal Lancaster
- Dicky Pride
- Russ Cochran
- Billy Hurley III
- Chris Smith
- Jim Carter
- Matt Gogel
- Grant Waite
- Brandel Chamblee
- Charlie Beljan
- Brad Bryant
- Eric Axley
- Willie Wood
- Parker McLachlin
- Spike McRoy
- Mike Heinen
- Guy Boros
- T.C. Chen
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- David Duval
- Brian Davis
- José María Olazábal
- Brendon de Jonge
- Brett Quigley
- Charlie Wi
- David Hearn
- Shaun Micheel
- Brandt Jobe
- Skip Kendall
- Michael Allen
- Jay Williamson
- Kent Jones
- Marco Dawson
- Omar Uresti
- Mike Springer
- Dick Mast
If not otherwise eligible and if needed to fill the field, Veteran members (players who have made a minimum of 150 cuts during their career), in order of their standing on the PGA TOUR Career Money List.