2025 Priority Ranking
- Wyndham Clark
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Raymond Floyd
- Al Geiberger
- Collin Morikawa
- Bobby Nichols
- Jack Nicklaus
- Gary Player
- Xander Schauffele
- Justin Thomas
- Lee Trevino
- Gary Woodland
Winners prior to prior to 1970 and in the last five seasons and current season
- Scottie Scheffler
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
In the last five seasons and current season
- Sam Burns
In the last three seasons and the current season
- Billy Horschel
- Viktor Hovland
Winners of the Memorial Tournament in the last 3 years
- Kurt Kitayama
Winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard in the last 3 years
- Jon Rahm
Winner of The Genesis Invitational in the last three years
- Patrick Cantlay
- Rory McIlroy
- Ludvig Åberg
- Akshay Bhatia
- Keegan Bradley
- Rafael Campos
- Corey Conners
- Cam Davis
- Jason Day
- Nick Dunlap
- Nico Echavarria
- Austin Eckroat
- Tony Finau
- Rickie Fowler
- Brice Garnett
- Lucas Glover
- Chris Gotterup
- Emiliano Grillo
- Harry Hall
- Nick Hardy
- Russell Henley
- Lee Hodges
- Max Homa
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Stephan Jaeger
- Si Woo Kim
- Tom Kim
- Chris Kirk
- Patton Kizzire
- Jake Knapp
- Luke List
- Robert MacIntyre
- Peter Malnati
- Matt McCarty
- Maverick McNealy
- Francesco Molinari
- Taylor Moore
- Vincent Norrman
- Matthieu Pavon
- Taylor Pendrith
- J.T. Poston
- Seamus Power
- Aaron Rai
- Davis Riley
- Justin Rose
- Jordan Spieth
- Sepp Straka
- Adam Svensson
- Nick Taylor
- Sahith Theegala
- Davis Thompson
- Erik van Rooyen
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Camilo Villegas
- Matt Wallace
- Kevin Yu
- Webb Simpson
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
- Kevin Kisner
- Ryan Palmer
- Brandt Snedeker
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
- Ben Polland
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
- Vijay Singh
PGA TOUR Members who have won at least 20 co-sponsored events while continually maintaining a competitive scoring average.
- Adam Scott
- Sungjae Im
- Adam Schenk
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Byeong Hun An
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Tom Hoge
- Denny McCarthy
- Will Zalatoris
- Cameron Young
- Thomas Detry
- Adam Hadwin
- Alex Noren
- Eric Cole
- Max Greyserman
- Patrick Rodgers
- Harris English
- Min Woo Lee
- Ben Griffin
- Brendon Todd
- Mark Hubbard
- Victor Perez
Top 70 on Prior Years FedExCup Points List through the TOUR Championship
- Beau Hossler
- Andrew Novak
- Justin Lower
- Doug Ghim
- Keith Mitchell
- Patrick Fishburn
- Andrew Putnam
- Rico Hoey
- Carson Young
- Sam Stevens
- Charley Hoffman
- Ryo Hisatsune
- Chandler Phillips
- Matti Schmid
- J.J. Spaun
- David Lipsky
- Ben Kohles
- Daniel Berger
- C.T. Pan
- Vince Whaley
- Michael Kim
- K.H. Lee
- Mac Meissner
- Greyson Sigg
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Matt Kuchar
- Joe Highsmith
- Chan Kim
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Ben Silverman
- Chad Ramey
- Nate Lashley
- Ryan Fox
- Henrik Norlander
- Alex Smalley
- David Skinns
- Sami Valimaki
- Joel Dahmen
- Sam Ryder
No players exempt in this category
- Taylor Montgomery
- Aaron Wise
- Scott Stallings
- Bud Cauley
- Michael Thompson
- Trey Mullinax
- Danny Willett
- Will Gordon
- Tyler McCumber
- Ben Martin
- John Huh
- David Lingmerth
If granted by the Commissioner, if not otherwise eligible, and if needed to fill the field, Special Medical Extension.
- Rasmus Højgaard
The leading player (not otherwise exempt) on the season ending's DP World Tour Race to Dubai Rankings.
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
- Michael Thorbjornsen
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Thriston Lawrence
- Paul Waring
- Jesper Svensson
- Niklas Nørgaard
- Matteo Manassero
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Antoine Rozner
- Rikuya Hoshino
- Tom McKibbin
- Max McGreevy
- Frankie Capan III
- Steven Fisk
- Tim Widing
- Taylor Dickson
- Brian Campbell
- Harry Higgs
- Thomas Rosenmueller
- William Mouw
- Quade Cummins
- Ryan Gerard
- Kevin Roy
- Cristobal Del Solar
- Kevin Velo
- Braden Thornberry
- Paul Peterson
- Isaiah Salinda
- Karl Vilips
- Jackson Suber
- Jeremy Paul
- Mason Andersen
- John Pak
- Kris Ventura
- Kaito Onishi
- Ricky Castillo
- Trevor Cone
- Danny Walker
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Noah Goodwin
- Lanto Griffin
- Hayden Buckley
- Takumi Kanaya
- Alejandro Tosti
- Will Chandler
- Matthew Riedel
No players exempt in this category
- Bronson Burgoon
- Harrison Endycott
- Brian Gay
- Jimmy Stanger
- Nicholas Lindheim
- Anders Albertson
- Norman Xiong
- Brandon Matthews
- Philip Knowles
- Vince Covello
NOTE: This category will be reordered with the above category #26.
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Kevin Streelman
- Chesson Hadley
- Aaron Baddeley
- Scott Gutschewski
- Parker Coody
No players exempt in this category
- Zac Blair
- Hayden Springer
- Wesley Bryan
- S.H. Kim
- Pierceson Coody
- Dylan Wu
- Kevin Tway
- Garrick Higgo
- Carl Yuan
- Adrien Dumont de Chassart
- Robby Shelton
- Matt NeSmith
- Brandon Wu
- Martin Laird
- Joseph Bramlett
- Trace Crowe
- Troy Merritt
- Kramer Hickok
- MJ Daffue
- Martin Trainer
- Ryan Moore
- Kevin Chappell
- Ryan Brehm
- Zach Johnson
- Chez Reavie
- S.Y. Noh
- Tyler Duncan
- Stewart Cink
- Cameron Champ
- Scott Piercy
- Richy Werenski
- Austin Cook
- Sean O'Hair
- Tommy Gainey
- Padraig Harrington
- Bill Haas
- Nick Watney
- Russell Knox
- Cody Gribble
- William McGirt
- Robert Streb
- James Hahn
- Jonathan Byrd
- Adam Long
- José María Olazábal
- Darren Clarke
- Alex Cejka
- Sung Kang
- Kyle Stanley
- Sangmoon Bae
- Brian Stuard
- Satoshi Kodaira
- Ryan Armour
- Luke Donald
- Ben Crane
- David Hearn
- Dylan Frittelli
- J.B. Holmes
- Jim Herman
- Jimmy Walker
- Chris Stroud
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
- Davis Love III
- Ernie Els
- Jim Furyk
- Mark O'Meara
- Fred Couples
- Corey Pavin
- Kenny Perry
- David Toms
- Mark Calcavecchia
- Steve Stricker
- Justin Leonard
- David Frost
- Stuart Appleby
- Jay Haas
- K.J. Choi
- Mike Weir
- Fred Funk
- Lee Janzen
- Steve Jones
- Retief Goosen
- John Huston
- Joey Sindelar
- Rory Sabbatini
- Jeff Sluman
- Rocco Mediate
- Steve Pate
- Sandy Lyle
- Jason Dufner
- Scott Verplank
- Tom Lehman
- Billy Mayfair
- Mark Wilson
- Jesper Parnevik
- John Daly
- Dan Forsman
- 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
- Jerry Kelly
- Chris DiMarco
- Vaughn Taylor
- Jeff Maggert
- John Rollins
- J.J. Henry
- Rod Pampling
- Boo Weekley
- Kirk Triplett
- Scott McCarron
- Johnson Wagner
- D.A. Points
- Bernhard Langer
- Jonas Blixt
- Cameron Beckman
- Rich Beem
- Robert Gamez
- Olin Browne
- Gene Sauers
- Gary Hallberg
- John Senden
- Jason Bohn
- Tom Pernice Jr.
- Paul Goydos
- George McNeill
- Frank Lickliter II
- D.J. Trahan
- Jonathan Kaye
- Y.E. Yang
- Daniel Chopra
- Paul Stankowski
- Fabián Gómez
- Len Mattiace
- Steven Bowditch
- Andrew Landry
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- José Coceres
- Ted Tryba
- Keith Clearwater
- Gabriel Hjertstedt
- Bo Van Pelt
- Kevin Sutherland
- Robert Garrigus
- Tim Petrovic
- Chris Riley
- Harrison Frazar
- Greg Chalmers
- Scott Brown
- Ken Duke
- Kevin Stadler
- Glen Day
- Ryuji Imada
- John Merrick
- Ted Purdy
- Mark Hensby
- Robert Damron
- Tom Byrum
- Neal Lancaster
- Richard Johnson
- Dicky Pride
- Russ Cochran
- Arjun Atwal
- Matt Gogel
- Brandel Chamblee
- Eric Axley
- Willie Wood
- Spike McRoy
- Derek Ernst
- Guy Boros
- Derek Lamely
No players exempt in this category
No players exempt in this category
- Geoff Ogilvy
- David Duval
- Freddie Jacobson
- Ángel Cabrera
- Brian Davis
- Jeff Overton
- Brett Quigley
- Charlie Wi
- Shaun Micheel
- Brandt Jobe
- Ricky Barnes
- Skip Kendall
- Michael Allen
- Jay Williamson
- Kent Jones
- Craig Barlow
- Jim Carter
- 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.