- 1. Past Masters Champions
Past champions not expected to play: Tommy Aaron, Jack Burke, Jr., Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller
- 2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Year | Winner |
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2016 | Dustin Johnson (1) |
2017 | Brooks Koepka |
2018 | Brooks Koepka |
2019 | Gary Woodland |
2020 | Bryson DeChambeau (15) |
- 3. Last five British Open Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Henrik Stenson |
2017 | Jordan Spieth (1) |
2018 | Francesco Molinari |
2019 | Shane Lowry |
2020 | n/a |
- 4. Last five PGA Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Jimmy Walker |
2017 | Justin Thomas |
2018 | Brooks Koepka (2) |
2019 | Brooks Koepka (2) |
2020 | Collin Morikawa (15) |
- 5. Last four winners of The Players Championship
Year(s) | Winner |
---|---|
2018 | Webb Simpson |
2019 | Rory McIlroy |
2020 | n/a |
2021 | Justin Thomas (4) |
- 6. Top two finishers in the 2020 U.S. Amateur
- Tyler Strafaci (a)
- Ollie Osborne (a)
- 7. Winner of the 2020 Amateur Championship
- Joe Long (a)
- 8.
Winner of the 2020 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
- 9.
Winner of the 2020 Latin America Amateur Championship
- 10.
Winner of the 2020 U.S. Mid-Amateur
- 11. The top 12 finishers and ties in the 2020 Masters Tournament
- 12. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2020 U.S. Open
- 13.
Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2020 Open Championship
- 14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2020 PGA Championship
- 15. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the FedEx Cup, between the 2015 Masters Tournament and the 2016 Masters Tournament
- 16. All players qualifying for the 2020 Tour Championship
- Harris English
- Im Sung-jae
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Brendon Todd
- Xander Schauffele
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Lanto Griffin
- Joaquín Niemann
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Kevin Kisner
- Abraham Ancer
- Ryan Palmer
- Kevin Na
- Cameron Smith
- Viktor Hovland
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Cameron Champ
- Billy Horschel
- 17. Top 50 in the final 2020 Official World Golf Ranking
- Matthew Fitzpatrick
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Victor Perez
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Justin Rose
- Lee Westwood
- Matt Kuchar
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Ian Poulter
- Matt Wallace
- 18. Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking on March 28, 2021
- 19. International invitees
- 1. All former PGA Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
1991 | John Daly |
1997 | Davis Love III (not playing) |
1998, 2004 | Vijay Singh (not playing) |
1999, 2000, 2006, 2007 | Tiger Woods (not playing) |
2002 | Rich Beem |
2003 | Shaun Micheel |
2005 | Phil Mickelson |
2008 | Pádraig Harrington |
2009 | Yang Yong-eun |
2010 | Martin Kaymer |
2011 | Keegan Bradley |
2012, 2014 | Rory McIlroy |
2013 | Jason Dufner |
2015 | Jason Day |
2016 | Jimmy Walker |
2017 | Justin Thomas |
2018, 2019 | Brooks Koepka (3) |
2020 | Collin Morikawa |
The following former champions are not expected to compete: Paul Azinger, Mark Brooks, Jack Burke, Jr., Steve Elkington, Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, David Toms, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins
- 2. Last five Masters Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2017 | Sergio García |
2018 | Patrick Reed |
2019 | Tiger Woods (1) |
2020 | Dustin Johnson (3) |
2021 | Hideki Matsuyama |
- 3. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Dustin Johnson |
2017 | Brooks Koepka |
2018 | Brooks Koepka |
2019 | Gary Woodland |
2020 | Bryson DeChambeau (7) |
- 4. Last five British Open Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Henrik Stenson |
2017 | Jordan Spieth |
2018 | Francesco Molinari (not playing) |
2019 | Shane Lowry |
2020 | n/a |
- 5. Last three Players Champions
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2019 | Rory McIlroy (1) |
2020 | n/a |
2021 | Justin Thomas (1) |
- 6.
Current Senior PGA Champion
- 7. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2020 PGA Championship
- Paul Casey
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Tony Finau
- Scottie Scheffler
- Matthew Wolff (not playing)
- Justin Rose
- Cameron Champ
- Joel Dahmen
- Xander Schauffele
- Daniel Berger
- Kim Si-woo
- Jon Rahm
- 8. 20 low scorers in the 2021 PGA Professional Championship
- Omar Uresti
- Frank Bensel Jr.
- Ben Cook
- Larkin Gross
- Ben Polland
- Alex Beach
- Stuart Smith
- Danny Balin
- Peter Ballo
- Tyler Collet
- Derek Holmes
- Rob Labritz
- Brad Marek
- Tim Pearce
- Joe Summerhays
- Brett Walker
- Mark Geddes
- Greg Koch
- Patrick Rada
- Sonny Skinner
- 9. Top 70 leaders in official money standings from the 2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and Barracuda Championship to the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship
- Joaquín Niemann
- Corey Conners
- Will Zalatoris
- Abraham Ancer
- Lee Westwood
- Im Sung-jae
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Webb Simpson
- Brian Harman
- Ryan Palmer
- Charley Hoffman
- Matthew Fitzpatrick
- Russell Henley
- Kevin Kisner
- Talor Gooch
- Cameron Tringale
- Chris Kirk
- Bubba Watson
- Lanto Griffin
- Richy Werenski
- Emiliano Grillo
- Maverick McNealy
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Aaron Wise
- Harold Varner III
- Brendon Todd
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Peter Malnati
- Brendan Steele
- Matt Kuchar
- Adam Long
- 10. Members of the United States and European 2018 Ryder Cup teams if inside the OWGR top 100
- 11. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2020 PGA Championship
- 12. Special invitations
- Ryder Cup captain
- Top 100 OWGR – March 28
- Adam Scott
- Victor Perez
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Robert MacIntyre
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Kevin Streelman
- Matt Wallace
- Erik van Rooyen
- Antoine Rozner
- Andy Sullivan
- Dylan Frittelli
- J. T. Poston
- Daniel van Tonder
- Danny Willett
- Lucas Herbert
- Thomas Detry
- Thomas Pieters
- Chez Reavie
- George Coetzee
- Aaron Rai
- Rasmus Højgaard
- Chan Kim
- Sam Horsfield
- Adam Hadwin
- An Byeong-hun
- Sami Välimäki
- Jazz Janewattananond
- Kurt Kitayama
- Brandon Stone
- Tom Lewis
- Rickie Fowler
- Top 100 on May 10
- Streak of majors
- Other
- 13. Alternates
- 1. Winners of the U.S. Open during the last ten years
Year | Player |
---|---|
2011 | Rory McIlroy |
2012 | Webb Simpson |
2013 | Justin Rose |
2014 | Martin Kaymer |
2015 | Jordan Spieth |
2016 | Dustin Johnson |
2017 | Brooks Koepka |
2018 | Brooks Koepka |
2019 | Gary Woodland |
2020 | Bryson DeChambeau |
- 2. The 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place at the 2020 U.S. Open
- 3. Winner of the 2020 U.S. Amateur Championship
- 4. Runner-up of the 2020 U.S. Amateur Championship
- Ollie Osborne (a)
- 5. Winners of the Masters Tournament during the last five years
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2017 | Sergio García |
2018 | Patrick Reed |
2019 | Tiger Woods (not playing) |
2020 | Dustin Johnson (1) |
2021 | Hideki Matsuyama (10) |
- 6. Winners of the PGA Championship during the last six years
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Jimmy Walker |
2017 | Justin Thomas |
2018 | Brooks Koepka (1) |
2019 | Brooks Koepka |
2020 | Collin Morikawa |
2021 | Phil Mickelson |
- 7. Winners of The Open Championship during the last five years
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Henrik Stenson |
2017 | Jordan Spieth (1) |
2018 | Francesco Molinari |
2019 | Shane Lowry |
2020 | n/a |
- 8. Winners of The Players Championship during the last three years
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2019 | Rory McIlroy (1) |
2020 | n/a |
2021 | Justin Thomas (10) |
- 9. Winner of the 2020 BMW PGA Championship
- 10. Players who qualified for the 2020 Tour Championship
- Jon Rahm
- Daniel Berger
- Harris English
- Im Sung-jae
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Brendon Todd
- Xander Schauffele
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Lanto Griffin
- Scottie Scheffler
- Joaquín Niemann
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Tony Finau
- Kevin Kisner
- Abraham Ancer
- Ryan Palmer
- Kevin Na
- Marc Leishman
- Cameron Smith
- Viktor Hovland
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Cameron Champ
- Billy Horschel
- 11. Winners of multiple full-point PGA Tour events since the original dates of the 2020 U.S. Open
- 12. Top 10 point earners in the British Masters, Made in HimmerLand, and European Open
- Richard Bland
- Guido Migliozzi
- Marcus Armitage
- Mikko Korhonen (not playing)
- Jordan Smith
- Adrian Meronk
- Edoardo Molinari
- Dave Coupland
- Thomas Detry
- Matthew Southgate
- 13. Winner of the 2020 Amateur Championship
- Joe Long (a)
- 14. Winner of the 2020 Mark H. McCormack Medal
- Takumi Kanaya (turned pro)
- 15. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of May 24, 2021 in the Official World Golf Ranking
- Patrick Cantlay
- Matthew Fitzpatrick
- Paul Casey
- Lee Westwood
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Victor Perez
- Jason Kokrak
- Corey Conners
- Sam Burns
- Adam Scott
- Max Homa
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Robert MacIntyre
- Brian Harman
- Kim Si-woo
- Matt Kuchar
- Garrick Higgo
- Matt Wallace
- Matt Jones
- Carlos Ortiz
- Kevin Streelman
- Bubba Watson
- Russell Henley
- Lee Kyoung-hoon
- 16. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of June 7, 2021 in the Official World Golf Ranking
- 17. Order of Merit leaders from the Asian Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and Sunshine Tour
- 18. Special exemptions given by the USGA
- Japan
- Texas
- Matthias Schmid (a)
- Matthew Sharpstene (a)
- Eric Cole
- Mario Carmona
- Johannes Veerman
- Kyle Westmoreland
- Álvaro Ortiz
- Paul Barjon
- Hayden Springer
- Luis Fernando Barco
- Washington
- New York
- California
- Maryland
- Georgia
- Florida
- Ohio (Springfield)
- South Carolina
- Ohio (Columbus)
- 1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on July 19, 2020
- 2. The Open Champions for 2010–2019
Year(s) | Winner |
---|---|
2002, 2012 | Ernie Els |
2007, 2008 | Pádraig Harrington |
2009 | Stewart Cink |
2010 | Louis Oosthuizen |
2011 | Darren Clarke |
2013 | Phil Mickelson |
2014 | Rory McIlroy |
2016 | Henrik Stenson |
2017 | Jordan Spieth |
2018 | Francesco Molinari (6) |
2019 | Shane Lowry |
Eligible past champions who will not play: Ian Baker-Finch, Mark Calcavecchia, Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Todd Hamilton, Zach Johnson, Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard, Tiger Woods
- 3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2019 Open Championship
- 4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) as of May 23
- Viktor Hovland
- Daniel Berger
- Billy Horschel
- Harris English
- Will Zalatoris
- Matthew Wolff (not playing)
- Ryan Palmer
- Kevin Na (not playing)
- Sam Burns
- Max Homa
- Brian Harman
- Kim Si-woo (not playing)
- 5. Top 30 on the 2019 Race to Dubai
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Matthew Fitzpatrick
- Matt Wallace
- Erik van Rooyen
- Marcus Kinhult
- Victor Perez
- Kurt Kitayama
- Benjamin Hébert
- Matthias Schwab
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Mike Lorenzo-Vera
- Jorge Campillo
- Paul Waring
- Rafa Cabrera-Bello
- Romain Langasque
- Joost Luiten
- Justin Harding
- Ian Poulter
- Li Haotong
- 6. Top 10 on the 2020 Race to Dubai
- 7. Last four BMW PGA Championship winners
Year(s) | Winner |
---|---|
2017 | Alex Norén |
2018 | Francesco Molinari |
2019 | Danny Willett (9) |
2020 | Tyrrell Hatton (3) |
- 8. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2021 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open
- 9. Last six U.S. Open winners
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Dustin Johnson |
2017 | Brooks Koepka |
2018 | Brooks Koepka |
2019 | Gary Woodland |
2020 | Bryson DeChambeau (13) |
2021 | Jon Rahm (13) |
- 10. Last six Masters Tournament winners
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2016 | Danny Willett |
2017 | Sergio García |
2018 | Patrick Reed |
2019 | Tiger Woods (1) |
2020 | Dustin Johnson (9) |
2021 | Hideki Matsuyama (13) |
- 11. Last seven PGA Championship winners
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2015 | Jason Day |
2016 | Jimmy Walker |
2017 | Justin Thomas |
2018 | Brooks Koepka (8) |
2019 | Brooks Koepka |
2020 | Collin Morikawa |
2021 | Phil Mickelson (2) |
- 12. Last three Players Championship winners
Year(s) | Winner |
---|---|
2018 | Webb Simpson |
2019 | Rory McIlroy (1) |
2020 | n/a |
2021 | Justin Thomas (11) |
- 13. The 30 qualifiers for the 2019 Tour Championship
- Patrick Cantlay
- Jon Rahm
- Matt Kuchar
- Xander Schauffele
- Abraham Ancer
- Adam Scott
- Hideki Matsuyama (not playing)
- Paul Casey
- Justin Rose
- Brandt Snedeker
- Kevin Kisner
- Marc Leishman
- Corey Conners
- Im Sung-jae (not playing)
- Chez Reavie
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Charles Howell III (not playing)
- Lucas Glover
- Jason Kokrak
- 15. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2021 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship
- 16. Winner of the 2019 Open de Argentina
- 17. Playing members of the 2019 Presidents Cup teams
- 18. Winner of the 2019 Asian Tour Order of Merit
- 19. Winners of the 2019 and 2020–21 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
- 20. Winner of the 2019–20 and 2020–21 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
- 21. Winner of the 2019 and 2020 Japan Opens
- 22. Winner of the 2021 Diamond Cup
- 23. Top 2 on the 2019 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List
- Shugo Imahira (not playing)
- Shaun Norris
- 24. Top 2, not already exempt, in the 2021 Mizuno Open
- Juvic Pagunsan (not playing)
- Ryutaro Nagano
- 25. Winner of the 2019 Senior Open Championship
- Bernhard Langer (not playing)
- 26. Winner of the 2020 and 2021 Amateur Championships
- Joe Long (a)
- Laird Shepherd (a)
- 27. Winner of the 2019 and 2020 U.S. Amateurs
- Andy Ogletree (turned pro)
- Tyler Strafaci (turned pro)
- 28. Winner of the 2020 and 2021 European Amateurs
- Matthias Schmid (a)
- Christoffer Bring (a)
- 29. Recipient of the 2019 and 2020 Mark H. McCormack Medals
- Cole Hammer (a)
- 30. Winner of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
- Lin Yuxin (a)
- 31. Winner of the 2020 Latin America Amateur Championship
- Abel Gallegos (a)
- 32. Top player, not already exempt, in the 2021 Kaskáda Golf Challenge (must not have competed in Final Qualifying)
- 33. Top 3, not already exempt, in the 2021 Irish Open (must not have competed in Final Qualifying)
- 34. Top player, not already exempt, in the 2021 Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge (must not have competed in Final Qualifying)
- 35. Top 3, not already exempt, in the 2021 Scottish Open
- 36. Top player, not already exempt, in the 2021 John Deere Classic
- Ryan Moore (not playing)
- Open Qualifying Series
Tournament | Spots | Top | Qualifiers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Emirates Australian Open | 3 | 10 | Matt Jones | Takumi Kanaya | Aaron Pike | |
South African Open | 3 | 10 | Branden Grace | Marcus Armitage | Jaco Ahlers | |
SMBC Singapore Open | 4 | 12 | Kim Joo-hyung (not playing) | Richard T. Lee | Ryosuke Kinoshita | Poom Saksansin |
Arnold Palmer Invitational | 3 | 10 | Joel Dahmen | Danny Lee (not playing) | Keith Mitchell |
- Final Qualifying (June 29)
- Alternates
- Kevin Streelman
- Russell Henley
- Carlos Ortiz
- Charley Hoffman
- Bubba Watson (not playing)
- Brendon Todd
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Lee Kyoung-hoon (not playing)
- Chris Kirk
- Talor Gooch
- Lanto Griffin
- Cameron Tringale
- Emiliano Grillo
- Keegan Bradley
- Daniel van Tonder
- Cameron Davis (not playing)
- Martin Kaymer
- Andy Sullivan
- Antoine Rozner
- Troy Merritt
- Harold Varner III
- Brendan Steele
- John Catlin
- Adam Long
- Sam Horsfield
- Dylan Frittelli