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Inside the Field: Farmers Insurance Open

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Inside the Field: Farmers Insurance Open


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    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.

    Note: An additional year of eligibility was granted to some categories because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Scroll below for the Farmers Insurance Open field list as of Friday, January 20th at 5 p.m. ET.

    Winner of PGA Championship (five-year exemption)
    Collin Morikawa
    Justin Thomas

    Winner of U.S. Open Championship (five-year exemption)
    Jon Rahm
    Gary Woodland

    Winner of THE PLAYERS Championship prior to 1996
    Si Woo Kim

    Winner of Masters Tournament (five-year exemption)
    Hideki Matsuyama

    Winner of World Golf Championships event (three-year exemption)
    Xander Schauffele

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

    FedExCup Champion (five-year exemption)
    Justin Rose

    PGA TOUR tournament winner (two-year exemption)
    Keegan Bradley
    Ryan Brehm
    Cameron Champ
    Cam Davis
    Jason Day
    Tyler Duncan
    Harris English
    Tony Finau
    Rickie Fowler
    Lanto Griffin
    Jim Herman
    Garrick Higgo
    Sungjae Im
    Martin Laird
    Luke List
    Trey Mullinax
    Sebastián Muñoz
    Chez Reavie
    J.J. Spaun
    Robert Streb
    Adam Svensson
    Michael Thompson
    Richy Werenski
    Will Zalatoris

    Career money exemption
    Jason Dufner
    Rory Sabbatini
    Jimmy Walker

    * Sponsor exemption (Korn Ferry Tour Finals)
    Cole Hammer
    Joey Vrzich

    Sponsor exemption (unrestricted)
    Michael Herrera
    Keita Nakajima
    Taiga Semikawa
    Patrick Welch

    PGA Section Champion\Player of the Year
    Michael Block

    Top 30 on prior season's FedExCup
    Sahith Theegala
    Scott Stallings

    Top 125 on prior season's FedExCup
    Davis Riley
    Maverick McNealy
    Kurt Kitayama
    Taylor Pendrith
    Emiliano Grillo
    Brendan Steele
    Adam Hadwin
    Taylor Moore
    Alex Smalley
    Wyndham Clark
    Lee Hodges
    John Huh
    Beau Hossler
    Matthew NeSmith
    Adam Long
    Dylan Frittelli
    Ryan Palmer
    Adam Schenk
    Aaron Rai
    Stephan Jaeger
    Patrick Rodgers
    Kevin Streelman
    Mark Hubbard
    Peter Malnati
    Danny Lee
    Hayden Buckley
    Sam Ryder
    Jhonattan Vegas
    James Hahn
    Scott Piercy
    Callum Tarren
    Max McGreevy
    Nick Watney
    Doug Ghim
    Kevin Tway
    Patton Kizzire
    Austin Smotherman
    Justin Lower
    Doc Redman
    Kelly Kraft

    # Major medical extension
    Nick Hardy
    Kyle Stanley
    J.B. Holmes
    Zac Blair

    Leading Points Winner from Korn Ferry Tour & KFT Finals.
    Justin Suh

    Korn Ferry Tour graduates via The 25 and The Finals 25 (reshuffled)
    Taylor Montgomery
    Thomas Detry
    Tyson Alexander
    Ben Taylor
    Ben Griffin
    Will Gordon
    Kevin Yu
    David Lingmerth
    Robby Shelton
    S.H. Kim
    Byeong Hun An
    Dean Burmester
    Davis Thompson
    Joseph Bramlett
    Harrison Endycott
    Ryan Armour
    Chris Stroud
    Zecheng Dou
    Henrik Norlander
    Paul Haley II
    Erik Barnes
    Harry Hall
    Austin Cook
    Brian Stuard
    Eric Cole
    Ben Martin
    MJ Daffue
    Scott Harrington
    Nico Echavarria
    Carl Yuan
    Kyle Westmoreland
    Austin Eckroat
    Michael Kim
    Brice Garnett
    Brent Grant
    Tano Goya
    Philip Knowles
    Vincent Norrman
    Trevor Cone
    Brandon Matthews
    Kevin Roy
    Matti Schmid
    Michael Gligic
    Carson Young
    Samuel Stevens
    Trevor Werbylo
    Augusto Núñez
    Anders Albertson

    Nos. 126-150 on prior season's FedExCup Points List (reshuffled)
    Harry Higgs
    Satoshi Kodaira
    Andrew Novak
    Cameron Percy
    Charley Hoffman
    Dylan Wu
    Jonathan Byrd
    Martin Trainer
    Hank Lebioda
    Bill Haas

    $ Reshuffle within categories 34-38
    Aaron Baddeley
    S.Y. Noh

    # = Latest medical extension information can be found .