2024 PGA Championship Field Includes Tiger Woods, All of World’s Top 100 Players

Published 7:18 am Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The field is out for next week’s PGA Championship, and as expected the top 100 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are all on the list.

Actually, the top 103 in the world are in the 156-player field for Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., as well as a couple of intriguing names at No. 644 and No. 801 in the world.

No. 801 is Tiger Woods, the four-time PGA champion who won in 2000 at Valhalla in a thrilling playoff over Bob May. Woods set the consecutive-cuts-made record last month at the Masters before fading on the weekend to 60th, but left Augusta National optimistic for the rest of the majors this season. He accepted a special exemption to the U.S. Open last week.

No. 644 is LIV Golf’s Talor Gooch, who confirmed his special exemption from the PGA of America on Monday via his social media. His spot appears to underline the PGA of America’s desire to have the strongest possible field in its major; Gooch was a three-time winner and LIV Golf’s player of the year in 2023.

LIV Golf’s David Puig and Dean Burmester also received exemptions. Puig has won twice on the Asian Tour in the last seven months and is 106th in the world, while Burmester won back-to-back DP World tour events to end 2023 and won on LIV last month in Miami.

There are 15 LIV golfers in the field. Brooks Koepka is the defending PGA champion, a three-time PGA winner overall and coming in off a win last week in Singapore. Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Martin Kaymer, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed and Cameron Smith are other past major champions from LIV Golf in the field.

Scottie Scheffler, the world No. 1 who won last month at the Masters, is scheduled to compete but is on baby watch at home with wife Meredith. He is skipping this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, a signature event on the PGA Tour.

As usual, the field also includes 20 PGA professionals who qualified via the annual PGA Professional Championship. The total PGA professional count is 21, as Michael Block returns after a T15 finish last year at Oak Hill which earned him a spot at Valhalla.

The winners of this week’s Wells Fargo and Myrtle Beach Classic on the PGA Tour will receive spots in the field if they’re not in already.

Below is the full field for the the PGA Championship, which is May 16-19.

Åberg, Ludvig – SWEDEN

An, Byeong Hun – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Beem, Rich – Austin, TX

Bevell, Josh – Nashville, TN (CFT)

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan – SOUTH AFRICA

Bhatia, Akshay – Wake Forest, NC

Björk, Alexander – SWEDEN

Blair, Zac – Orem, UT

Block, Michael – Mission Viejo, CA (CFT)

Bowser, Evan – Naples, FL (CFT)

Bradley, Keegan – Woodstock, VT

Burmester, Dean – SOUTH AFRICA

Burns, Sam – Shreveport, LA

Cantlay, Patrick – Jupiter, FL

Clark, Wyndham – Denver, CO

Cole, Eric – Tequesta, FL

Cole, Preston – Charlotte, NC (CFT)

Collet, Tyler – Vero Beach, FL (CFT)

Conners, Corey – CANADA

Daly, John – Cleawarter Beach, FL

Davis, Cameron – AUSTRALIA

Day, Jason – AUSTRALIA

DeChambeau, Bryson – Dallas, TX

Detry, Thomas – BELGIUM

Dobyns, Matt – Glen Head, NY (CFT)

Donald, Luke – ENGLAND

Dufner, Jason – Auburn, AL

Dunlap, Nick – Tuscaloosa, AL

Eckroat, Austin – Edmond, OK

English, Harris – Sea Island, GA

Finau, Tony – Lehi, UT

Fitzpatrick, Matthew – ENGLAND

Fleetwood, Tommy – ENGLAND

Fowler, Rickie – Murrieta, CA

Fox, Ryan – NEW ZEALAND

Garnett, Brice – Gallatin, MO

Glover, Lucas – Jupiter, FL

Gooch, Talor – Oklahoma City, OK

Griffin, Ben – Chapel Hill, NC

Grillo, Emiliano – ARGENTINA

Gross, Larkin – Center Cross, VA (CFT)

Hadwin, Adam – CANADA

Harman, Brian – Saint Simons Island, GA

Harrington, Pádraig – IRELAND

Hatton, Tyrrell – ENGLAND

Henley, Russell – Columbus, GA

Herbert, Lucas – Orlando, FL

Hisatsune, Ryo – Japan

Hodges, Lee – Athens, AL

Hoffman, Charley – San Diego, CA

Hoge, Tom – Fort Worth, TX

Højgaard, Nicolai – DENMARK

Højgaard, Rasmus – DENMARK

Homa, Max – Scottsdale, AZ

Horschel, Billy – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Hoshino, Rikuya – JAPAN

Hossler, Beau – Mission Viejo, CA

Hovland, Viktor – NORWAY

Hubbard, Mark – The Woodlands, TX

Hughes, Mackenzie – CANADA

Im, Sungjae – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Jaeger, Stephan – GERMANY

Johnson, Dustin – Jupiter, FL

Jones, Jared – Houston, TX (CFT)

Kanaya, Takumi – JAPAN

Kaymer, Martin – GERMANY

Kellen, Jeff – Rockford, IL (CFT

)Kim, Si Woo – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Kim, Tom – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Kirk, Chris – Watkinsville, GA

Kitayama, Kurt – Las Vegas, NV

Knapp, Jake – Costa Mesa, CA

Kobori, Kazuma – NEW ZEALAND

Koepka, Brooks – West Palm Beach, FL

Kohles, Ben – Dallas, TX

Lawrence, Thriston – SOUTH AFRICA

Lee, Kyoung-Hoon – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Lee, Min Woo – AUSTRALIA

List, Luke – Augusta, GA

Lowry, Shane – IRELAND

MacIntyre, Robert – SCOTLAND

Malnati, Peter – Knoxville, TN

Marek, Brad – Berkeley, CA (CFT)

Matsuyama, Hideki – JAPAN

McCarthy, Denny – Jupiter, FL

McIlroy, Rory – NORTHERN IRELAND

McNealy, Maverick – Stanford, CA

Mendoza, Kyle – Oceanside, CA (CFT)

Meronk, Adrian – POLAND

Micheel, Shaun – Colliersville, TN

Mickelson, Phil – Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Mitchell, Keith – Saint Simons Island, GA

Molinari, Francesco – ITALY

Montgomery, Taylor – Las Vegas, NV

Moore, Taylor – Southlake, TX

Morikawa, Collin – La Canada, CA

Mueller, Jesse – Phoenix, AZ (CFT)

Murray, Grayson – Raleigh, NC

Nakajima, Keita – JAPAN

Niemann, Joaquin – CHILE

Noren, Alex – SWEDEN

Norrman, Vincent – SWEDEN

Oakley, Zac – King of Prussia, PA (CFT)

Ogletree, Andy – Alpharetta, GA

Olesen, Thorbjorn – DENMARK

Otaegui, Adrian – SPAIN

Pavon, Matthieu – FRANCE

Pendrith, Taylor – CANADA

Perez, Victor – FRANCE

Phillips, Tracy – Tulsa, OK (CFT)

Polland, Ben – Teton Village, WY (CFT

)Poston, J.T. – Sea Island, GA

Puig, David – SPAIN

Putnam, Andrew – University Place, WA

Rahm, Jon – SPAIN

Rai, Aaron – ENGLAND

Reed, Patrick – The Woodlands, TX

Rodgers, Patrick – Avon, IN

Rose, Justin – ENGLAND

Schauffele, Xander – San Diego, CA

Scheffler, Scottie – Dallas, TX

Schenk, Adam – Vincennes, IN

Scott, Adam – AUSTRALIA

Shattuck, Braden – Aston, PA (CFT)

Smith, Cameron – AUSTRALIA

Smith, Jordan – ENGLAND

Soderberg, Sebastian – SWEDEN

Somers, John – Clearwater, FL (CFT)

Speight, Josh – Dallas, TX (CFT)

Spieth, Jordan – Dallas, TX

Straka, Sepp – AUSTRIA

Stricker, Steve – Madison, WI

Svensson, Adam – CANADA

Svensson, Jesper – SWEDEN

Svoboda, Andy – Oak Brook, IL (CFT)

Taylor, Nick – CANADA

Theegala, Sahith – Spring, TX

Thomas, Justin – Louisville, KY

Todd, Brendon – Watkinsville, GA

Tosti, Alejandro – ARGENTINA

Valimaki, Sami – FINLAND

van Rooyen, Erik – SOUTH AFRICA

van Velzen, Ryan – SOUTH AFRICA

Villegas, Camilo – COLOMBIA

Walker, Jimmy – Terrell Hills, TX

Wallace, Matt – ENGLAND

Wells, Jeremy – Estero, FL (CFT)

Widing, Tim – SWEDEN

Woodland, Gary – Topeka, KS

Woods, Tiger – Jupiter, FL

Worthington II, Wyatt – Las Vegas, NV (CFT)

Yang, Y.E. – REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Young, Cameron – Jupiter, FL

Zalatoris, Will – Dallas, TX

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