Majors Value Meter: PGA Championship Rankings

Below are RotoWire's rankings for the 102nd PGA Championship. This list is geared toward winner-take-all leagues and leagues that reward the lowest aggregate score, but it can serve other leagues and DFS as well, no matter the nuances. This year the field was formulated differently because of the worldwide pandemic, but just about every top golfer is still entered and the rankings have been affected only minimally. Ninety-four of the top 100 in the world rankings are entered. As of now, 154 players are in the field, with two additional spots held for the winners of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and the Barracuda Championship — if they already aren't in the field. But the only WGC golfer not already in the PGA field is unheralded Sebastian Soderberg, so it's virtually assured first alternate Wyndham Clark will get in. We have added him to the rankings. (The second alternate is Brian Stuard and the third in Bud Cauley.) These rankings were formulated before the completion of the WGC-FedEx and Barracuda tournaments. There are 20 club pros in the field, and they are listed separately at the bottom.

TPC Harding Park (par-70, 7,251 yards) in San Francisco is a public course and short compared to recent PGA Championship tracks. Normally, the PGA is played on behemoths of about 7,500 yards or more. Harding Park has played host to big events going back more than 75 years. A bunch of players in this week's field are familiar with the course. At the 2005 WGC-American Express (now played in Mexico), Tiger Woods defeated, of all people, John Daly, in a playoff. About a dozen other players from that tournament are in the field this week. Then there was the 2009 Presidents Cup; Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, Lucas Glover and Zach Johnson were on the teams. Most recently, there was the 2015 WGC-Match Play won by Rory McIlroy over Gary Woodland in the finals. About 40 of the 64 golfers in that field will be on hand this week, too.

FAVORITES

1. Justin Thomas

The 2017 PGA winner at Quail Hollow could very well add his second PGA and second career major title this week. Thomas finished sixth in defense of his championship but then missed last year's PGA with a wrist injury. He had played very well this season, with two wins and four other top-5s, including a recent runner-up to Collin Morikawa at the Workday Charity Open. If the Player of the Year voting took place now, there's a good chance that Thomas would win it.

2. Rory McIlroy

Hard to believe the last of McIlroy's four majors came six years ago at the 2014 PGA at Valhalla. He also won it in 2012 at The Ocean Course. He tied for eighth a year ago, when he had a decent (for him) run in the majors, with top-10s at the PGA and U.S. Open and a top-25 at the Masters before flaming out of an Open Championship in which the pressure of playing in Northern Ireland was extreme. He had not been great by any means since golf restarted In June and had fallen from the No. 1 ranking, but we suspect if golf people were asked who the best player in the world was now, he'd still get more votes than anyone. McIlroy won the 2015 WGC-Match Play at Harding Park. It's not apples to apples, but it's something.

3. Bryson DeChambeau

This will be a very interesting and perhaps pivotal week for the most controversial golfer around. While DeChambeau won on Tour recently and is back inside the top 10, his track record in majors is actually pretty bad. He's never had a top-10 in 14 starts as a pro, with his best showing coming in his first, a tie for 15th in the 2016 U.S. Open. He has gone T33-MC-MC in the PGA and didn't have a top-25 in any major last year.

4. Jon Rahm

He became No. 1 in the world but has never won a major (or a WGC or playoff event, for that matter). But he has been getting better in the majors with three top-5s and five top-12s the last two years. One of those was a tie for fourth at the 2018 PGA, though he missed the cut a year ago. Remember, Rahm has played in only 14 career majors.

5. Webb Simpson

For as good a golfer as Simpson is, he has only three career top-10s in majors. The first was his win at the 2012 U.S. Open, but his other two have come in the last two years, at the 2018 U.S. Open and at the 2019 Masters. Clearly, he's a better golfer now than he was even in 2012. Simpson has never gotten a sniff at a PGA, tying for 29th last year with a best of T13 in 2016.

6. Xander Schauffele

In only 11 career majors, Schauffele already has five top-6s. None has come in a PGA, but that's probably more just happenstance than him having trouble with PGA Championship-type courses. His best at a PGA was T16 last year and it would surprise no one if he broke through at Harding Park.

7. Brooks Koepka

(It all depends on his knee.) He's the two-time defending PGA champion, though only on paper — which still is a pretty good place to be a two-time defending major champion. While Koepka has won at least one major the last three years, his game had been far from what it was then, curtailed by a knee injury that just wasn't going away. He began the WGC-FedEx in good shape, but we had not seen him put together four good rounds, much less eight. After winning one major in 2017 and two in 2018, Koepka finished top 4 in all four in 2019. He has a chance to tie Walter Hagen as the only golfer to win the same major at least three years in a row (PGA, 1924-27). Koepka's last top-10 anywhere in the world had come almost a year ago at the Tour Championship. We place him this high out of respect for what he's been able to accomplish and the belief that he could dig deep to at least be in the conversation this week.

8. Dustin Johnson

Few golfers have had a more star-crossed career in majors than Johnson, though Greg Norman would like a word. Still sitting on one career major, the 2016 U.S. Open, Johnson has been outstanding in PGAs through the years, including a runner-up last year to Brooks Koepka at Bethpage Black. It was Johnson's second top-5 and fifth top-10 at the PGA. Incredibly, he has finished runner-up at every major. He withdrew from the 3M Open citing his back, though he appeared to begin the WGC-FedEx without any limitations.

9. Tyrrell Hatton

The rising Englishman has five career top-10s in majors, two at the PGA, tying for 10th in 2016 and 2018. He also tied for sixth at the 2018 U.S. Open, showing he can compete anywhere. Hatton has played only five times all of 2020, including the WGC-FedEx, but it's hard to argue against T6-1-T3-T4, with the win coming at Bay Hill.

10. Patrick Cantlay

Cantlay has played only 10 career majors, and his best was a tie for third in last year's PGA. He also tied for ninth at the Masters the month before. He then tied for 21st at the U.S. Open and for 41st at the Open Championship. Clearly, he has an all-around game well-suited for the majors. He had been decent but not great since the restart, peaking with a tie for seventh at the Workday.

11. Jason Day

A few weeks ago ranking Day this high would have been laughable. But not only has his back held up, his game looks better than it has in sometime and he usually steps up in majors. He has been far from the player who was once No. 1 in the world and won the PGA in 2015, but he has been on the periphery of good in the majors the last three years, with eight top-25s. He has eight career top-25s in 10 PGAs and, while his record since that win five years ago is very good, it had been going backward every year: 2-T9-T19-T23.

12. Collin Morikawa

This will be Morikawa's second career major, having impressively tied for 35th last year at the U.S. Open. The former Cal star is very familiar with Harding Park. He has shown in just his year-plus on Tour an ability to win (twice) and hit the ball right down the middle time after time — a pretty good strategy in PGAs.

CONTENDERS

13. Viktor Hovland

He was ranked about 30th in the world, but this will be Hovland's first major as a professional. He was low amateur at the Masters (T32) and U.S. Open (T12) a year ago, setting the stage for a great start to his pro career. While Hovland has won on the PGA Tour (2020 Puerto Rico Open) and has been in the mix a number of times, expecting a finish on the first page of the leaderboard this week might be a bit aggressive (the first page goes, what, eight deep?).

14. Tiger Woods

Woods looked so-so at the Memorial after taking five months off from tournament golf; this break will be only three weeks. It's all about his back, but this shorter track should help him greatly, as should his knowledge of Harding Park. Still, the position may be too high, but it's hard not to get sucked into the Tiger Vortex. For the record, he's going for major No. 16, having won the PGA four times in 1999-2000, 2006-07. Yes, 13 years ago was the most recent PGA win.

15. Gary Woodland

He has become a major champion (at the 2019 U.S. Open) since the PGA was last contested. He has the game to contend at a PGA, and he has, finishing T22-T6-T8 the past three years. Before the Open win, those were his only two top-10s in majors. Woodland had two top-10s and a third top-25 since the restart. For what it's worth, he was runner-up to Rory McIlroy at the 2015 WGC-Match Play at Harding Park (it's worth a little bit).

16. Tony Finau

Finau, of course, has never won a major, and his only PGA Tour win is still that opposite-field Puerto Rico Open four years ago. But he has a very good track record in the majors, as he should with a game whose only shortcoming is putting. He had top-10s in five of the eight majors the last two years, though not in the PGA. Still, he tied for fifth at the 2018 U.S. Open, and the Open and PGA are the majors most closely aligned to the same skill sets. Finau tied for 10th at the 2015 PGA.

17. Tommy Fleetwood

Fleetwood has played in five PGAs and has yet to crack the top 30. We're not sure why, since he has a pair of top-5s at U.S. Opens, including runner-up in 2018. He also was second to Shane Lowry last year at Royal Portrush. Fleetwood was late coming back to golf after the restart but this will be his third event, enough time to make a dent this week.

18. Patrick Reed

Reed was runner-up to Justin Thomas at the 2017 PGA, then missed the cut the last two years. He also tied for fourth at the 2018 U.S. Open. His short game is good enough, when on, to win anywhere. Of course, he won the Masters in 2018. Reed had been a mixed bag since the restart with a pair of top-10s but also two missed cuts, and he doesn't miss many.

19. Justin Rose

He has had some close calls at the PGA, tying for third in 2012 and finishing solo fourth in 2015.  He has only one PGA top-20 since, but has a long history of top-10s in all the majors, 16 in all, including his 2013 U.S. Open win at Merion and a tie for third at the U.S. Open a year ago. He's also missed his last three cuts on Tour after a T3 and a T14 in the restart. Rose can still be good enough to contend, though there's enough information to suggest he won't.

20. Rickie Fowler

He's no longer the dreaded Best Player to Have Never Won a Major. But the really bad part of that is, it's not because he's won a major. But Fowler does have 11 top-10s in majors, including two last year. He tied for third at the 2014 PGA and for fifth in 2017. And despite now being ranked outside the top-30 in the world, Fowler is surely good enough to find a four-day spark. That said, he hadn't had a top-10 since January.

21. Jordan Spieth

The Jordan Spieth paragraphs are always the hardest to write. It's not a writer's block thing; it's just a Spieth thing. Yes, he famously hasn't won anywhere since the 2017 Open Championship, but on occasion he has great weeks, including in majors. He has a pair of major top-3s since that last win, including last year's PGA (and the 2018 Masters).  He also was T12 at the 2018 PGA, and runner-up in 2015, though that was before he lost his mojo. So we never put Spieth too low, despite his world ranking in the 60s because it still seems possible that he's capable, at least for one week, of being Jordan Spieth again.

22. Hideki Matsuyama

He's 28 and has played in 28 majors. Matsuyama impressively has finished top-25 in 16 of them, including seven top-10s. Those include back-to-back top-5s at the 2016-17 PGA (Baltusrol and Quail Hollow). His game was at its high point then, though he's playing better lately than he had in some time. But it's been more of a top-25 good than a top-10, and that's why he is slotted where he is.

23. Daniel Berger

What a season it's been for Berger, finally injury free and back in form. He was on a roll before the stoppage and didn't slow down after the restart, winning at Colonial and then tying for third at the RBC Heritage. Berger has had a few flashes in majors, with top-10s in the 2016 Masters and 2018 U.S. Open, plus a PGA best of T12 in 2018. If his short game is A+ this week, there's always a chance.

24. Matthew Fitzpatrick

This will be Fitzpatrick's 20th career major. He has only one top-10, at the 2016 Masters, but collectively had a good year last year with three top-25s. The one miss was the PGA, where he tied for 41st, his best effort in four visits (two missed cuts). He's now 25, still young. He has five Euro wins, but at some point he's going to have to deliver in a big PGA Tour event. He came close at the Memorial, finishing solo third to move to a career-best 20th in the world rankings.

25. Abraham Ancer

The urge is to place Ancer higher, since his tee-to-green game is exceptional. But despite being ranked in the top-25 in the OWGR, he's never won on Tour and has competed in only four majors. His best was last year's PGA, where he tied for 16th. Ancer had three top-15s since the restart, including runner-up at Harbour Town, and another top-15 this week would be quite an accomplishment for the 29-year-old.

26. Adam Scott

Scott has not played since the restart, so he is the ultimate wild card: a golfer who had played his way back into the top-10 in the world but one who has played only three times in all of 2020. One of them was a win at Riviera, and that was after a break of two months. But this is five months. The thing is, Scott's swing, as pretty as there is, is perhaps the most repeatable in golf, so it would seem easier to compete right away. He has six top-10s in PGAs through the years, including the past two. Scott has turned 40 since the last one.

27. Matt Wallace

Wallace tied for third at last year's PGA, and for 19th the year before. And he was T12 at last year's U.S. Open. Pretty impressive. But until tying for fourth at the Memorial a few weeks back, he had gone eight months without so much as a top-10, almost falling out of the top-50 in the world. When on, his game is good enough for the first page of a major leaderboard

28.  Ian Poulter

The shorter track will aide Poulter, who always has had a great game but trouble keeping up with the long hitters. He was not able to last year, missing the cut in the final three majors after a tie for 12th at the Masters. He has eight career top-10s in majors, but none since 2015. He tied for ninth at the 2006 PGA and for third at the 2012 PGA and was top-25 as recently as 2017. Now 44, Poulter had fallen from the top-50 in the world rankings but did finish fifth just a few weeks back at the Workday.

29.  Matt Kuchar 

Kuchar has impressively (and surprisingly) finished top-10 in three of the past five PGAs, including T8 last year. He missed the cut in the other two, but that's still a very nice full house. Last year was a great year in the majors for Kuchar, 42, with additional top-16s at the Masters and U.S. Open. He is still ranked in the top-25 in the world but has done next to nothing since the restart, so he is tough to calibrate.

30. Sungjae Im

Im has played in only four majors and missed the cut in three of them. His only cash was a tie for 42nd at the 2018 PGA. While Im was perhaps the hottest golfer going before golf stopped in March, nothing in his recent play suggested he can come close to contending this week. After tying for 10th at Colonial in the first week back, he didn't crack the top-50 in five subsequent events.

MAKING THE CUT

31. Chez Reavie

His last three PGAs have been T22-T12-T14. He then tied for third in the U.S. Open last year. So there's no question and he can perform in the biggest events, even without great length. And he finished top-25 in four of his past eight events leading up to the WGC, including both tournaments at Muirfield Village. Sometimes it's hard to remember that the unassuming. Reavie is ranked in the top-50 OWGR.

32. Joaquin Niemann

Still only 21, this will be the Chilean's fifth career major. He's made only one cut, tying for 71st at the 2018 PGA. He missed the cut last year. Niemann won his first PGA Tour event in the season-opening Greenbrier, allowing him to break into the top-50 in the world rankings. He since fell back into the 60s.

33. Erik van Rooyen

Now 30, the South African impressively tied for eighth at last year's PGA at Bethpage Black. He's played in only four career majors, three of them last year, when he also tied for 20th at the Open Championship. His first year on the PGA Tour has not been great, and the 3M Open was a disaster, but if he can finish in the top-10 at the monster that is Bethpage, he surely can do it at Harding Park.

34. Shane Lowry

Hard to believe, but Lowry is the most recent major winner in golf, and he's been on that mantle for more than a year now. Forgotten amid the all the Royal Portrush hoopla was the fact that he tied for eighth at the PGA a few months earlier. But he'd had only one worldwide top-10 since his breakthrough at the Open Championship, and that was at an Asian Tour event.
 
35. Marc Leishman

He has five career top-10s in majors, none in the PGA or U.S. Open, which doesn't bode well for a high finish this week, especially combined with a poor play since the restart of golf. He did win earlier this season at Torrey Pines, though. His best at the PGA was a tie for 12th in 2013 and for 13th in 2017.

36. Matthew Wolff

This will be the 21-year-old Wolff's first major. He arrives playing the most consistent golf since he arrived on Tour. Still, a high finish in this field would be a huge surprise.

37. Kevin Kisner

Kisner is not a long hitter but has had some good finishes at the PGA, top-20s for three years running from 2016-18, with a best of T7 at Quail Hollow in 2017. He missed the cut last year. He finished tied for third at the Rocket Mortgage but otherwise had done nothing since the restart. Still, with his short game and smarts, there's always a chance he can make a dent on the leaderboard.

38. Henrik Stenson

He has a great track record at the PGA, with five top-10s and three more top-25s through the years, but the last two years have been less than optimal. More importantly is a question of rust. He came back for the WGC-FedEx, but it was only his fifth tournament in all of 2020 and first in months. His lone top-25 this year was in an Asian Tour event. He tied for third at the 2005 WGC-Amex.

39. Billy Horschel

Twenty-five career majors, one top-10. Oy. For the record, that was a tie for fourth at the 2013 U.S. Open. He's made the cut at the PGA the past six years, and his best, a tie for 23rd, was achieved last year. Where would Horschel rate in the minds of golf observers without that one run for the ages in the 2014 playoffs? He was ranked in the 30s in the world rankings, so he's doing something right.

40. Sergio Garcia

He is now 40 years old, more than two decades removed since that teenager scissor-kicking his way down the fairway at Valhalla. Garcia finished runner-up to Tiger Woods that year (1999) and again was runner-up in 2008. But for such a good ball striker, he has been terrible at the PGA since then, missing the cut seven times in 11 years with just one top-25. He does not have a top-20 in any major since winning the 2017 Masters. He tied for third at the 2005 WGC-Amex.

41. Louis Oosthuizen

Oosthuizen has had a fascinating major career. Since winning the Open Championship back in 2010, he's finished runner-up in all four majors, mostly recently the PGA in 2017. But those finishes, however great, were aberrations from many subpar showings. He is still ranked in the 20s OWGR, but he manages to keep that propped up by playing well in many lesser events, including in South Africa. He's played only six PGA Tour events in 2020 before the WGC-FedEx, without even a top-40 finish.

42. Lucas Glover

He will always have that 2009 U.S. Open title – at Bethpage, no less. It came out of nowhere, yet he also finished fifth later that year at the PGA, by far his best major finishes ever. But after years of so-so-ness, Glover has found a new gear recently. He tied for 16th at the PGA last year. He then tied for 20th at the Open Championship. He plays so solidly from tee to green he could do something like that again this year at Harding Park.

43. Paul Casey

Casey's best major has always been the Masters – five of his nine career major top-10s have come at Augusta. Just one at a PGA, a tie for 10th in 2016. In light of that, plus Casey's poor play all season, we're not expecting a big week. Casey made it to the quarterfinals of the 2015 Match Play and took eventual champion Rory McIlroy to 22 holes before succumbing.

44. Danny Willett

Willett is one of the real wild cards in the field. He has the ability to finish in the top-10 and the flakiness to miss the cut by a lot. He fell off the rails after winning the 2016 Masters. But he's back in the 30s in the world rankings and his last two majors have been T12 at last year's U.S. Open and T6 at the Open Championship. He's never had a top-25 in seven trips to the PGA, but he has the game to do that and then some. He just misses a lot more than he makes. A real conundrum. Willett lost to Gary Woodland in the 2015 WGC-Match Play semifinals.

45. Christiaan Bezuidenhout

The 26-year-old South African climbed into the top-50 in the world rankings with a number of great results in January, notably finishing second in Dubai and then winning a lower-level event back home. He's been playing stateside since the restart and notched at top-25 at the Memorial. He's been in only one major, missing the cut last year at the Open Championship. But he tied for 17th at the 2019 WGC-HSBC and then for 29th at the WGC-Mexico in February. He was in the field for the WGC-FedEx.

46. Kevin Na

Na has played 38 majors with only two top-10s. One of them was a tie for 10th way back at the 2011 PGA. He has missed four of his past six PGA cuts, though he has two top-25s. He also withdrew from the 2012 PGA (shocking, we know). Na has a pair of recent top-10s on Tour but also has had injury troubles, making him a tough guy to count on this week.

47. Ryan Palmer

What a strange major career for Palmer. He's played in 28, but that dates to 1998 and he's played in all four only twice, lastly in 2015. He has two career top-10s, one of them a tie for fifth at the 2014 PGA. He missed the cut last year and didn't play in 2017-18. On the other hand, he just finished second at the Memorial, with a field every bit as good as a major.

48. Rafa Cabrera Bello

Cabrera Bello tied for 10th at the 2018 PGA, but otherwise does not have a top-25 in seven other appearances, missing three cuts. He tied for 71st last year. He had not been playing well before a sizzling 64 on Sunday at the 3M Open.

49. Adam Hadwin

Hadwin tied for 29th at last year's PGA, his second-best showing in 12 careers majors (T24 at 2018 Masters). He's good enough to have cracked the top-50 OWGR but never the top-40. He's been sitting on one win since the 2017 Valspar. He's come close again, with a pair of runners-up in 2019, but there's nothing to indicate a high finish this week (or in any major).

50. Kevin Streelman

He's 41, he's playing great and he's back in the top-50 in the world rankings. Hard to believe that he's played in only two majors the past three years. Streelman's best major finish was a tie for 12th at the 2013 PGA. He's missed the cut his past two visits in 2016 and 2018. Earlier this season, he was runner-up at Pebble Beach and the Travelers and tied for seventh at the Workday.

51. Harris English

He's played in only two majors the past three years but is enjoying a renaissance season at age 30. He has 10 top-25s so far in 2019-20. While English has made 12 cuts in 15 major starts, he has only one top-25, and that was at the 2013 Open Championship. His best at the PGA was a tie for 48th in 2015.

52. Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler missed the cut at the U.S. Open, his lone major since turning pro. He played two other Opens in 2016-17 and was low amateur the second time with an impressive tie for 27th. After a brilliant start to his rookie season carried him into the top-50 in the world rankings, Scheffler had cooled of late with three straight missed cuts until a top-25 at the Memorial. He played in his second WGC in Memphis after tying for 26th in Mexico.

53. Cameron Smith

Smith has a couple of major top-5s, including at his first career major, the 2015 U.S. Open. The other was at the 2018 Masters. He tied for 64th at last year's PGA and for 56th the year before. He's still in the top-50 in the world, for now, but had not been playing well at all since the restart. His breakthrough win at the Sony back in January seems a long time ago.

54. Bernd Wiesberger

The Austrian resuscitated his career last year, soaring back into the top-25 with three European Tour wins. He's never enjoyed much success in the states, though, and that includes the majors. He's played six PGAs, missing five cuts, albeit with a tie for 15th in 2014, his best career finish in a major. He came over a few weeks ago to quarantine and get ready, and promptly missed the cut at the Memorial. He just missed a top-25 at the 3M.

55.  Byeong Hun An

He has played 21 careers majors and his best finish ever is a tie for 16th at last year's U.S. Open. Not good. He's missed 3-of-5 PGA cuts, including last year. There's just not much to get excited about, not even his regular Tour play. An missed the cut three times since the restart, with nothing inside the top-40. He's fallen into the 60s in the world rankings.

56. Brandt Snedeker

Yes, Snedeker tied for 16th at last year's PGA, and he hasn't missed a cut there since 2012. But he'll be 40 before the new year, his last win anywhere was two years ago and his best days are in the past. He'd missed five of his past seven cuts on Tour and reaching the weekend would likely be viewed as a successful week.

57. Mackenzie Hughes

A great run the past few months has landed him in his fifth career major. He's never made a cut, including at the 2017 PGA. With a runner-up at the Honda, a tie for third at the Travelers and a tie for sixth at the Memorial, he climbed into the 70s OWGR for the first time. Before that Honda result, he had missed nine cuts in 11 starts. He's one of the best putters on Tour, which always gives him a puncher's chance.

58. Brendon Todd

Todd played seven majors across 2014-15, then didn't get back until last year's U.S. Open, and he missed the cut. He actually had a couple of good showings in the past, top-20s at both Opens. He's far more accomplished than he was five years ago, with two wins this season and nearly a third. But this is a big step up in class for him.

59. Matthias Schwab

The 25-year-old Austrian came over a few weeks ago to quarantine and prepare for his first career major. He missed the cut at his first-ever regular PGA Tour event at the Memorial, then tied for 32nd at the 3M and played in the opposite-field Barracuda Championship (he was among the leaders after 36 holes). Schwab tied for fourth at this first WGC last year in China, then tied for 42nd in Mexico. He's ranked inside the top-100 in the world after nine top-10s in Europe, two of which were runners-up. His golf game is good enough, but we'll see whether he can handle the moment of his first major.

60. Robert MacIntyre

Only 23, the Englishman made his major debut last year at Royal Portrush with a tie for sixth. Ranked around 80th in the world, this up-and-comer hadn't played since the restart until the WGC-FedEx.

61. Adam Long

Long qualified for the U.S. Open way back in 2011 (MC) but didn't get to another major till last year, after he was the surprise winner at La Quinta. He missed the cut at the Masters and tied for 41st at the PGA. This season has been all or nothing for him; in 20 starts, he has eight top-25s and seven missed cuts. He just jumped inside the top-75 OWGR after finishing solo second at the 3M Open.

62. Dylan Frittelli

This will be the South African's ninth major, and his best was a tie for 31st at the 2018 PGA. He missed the cut last year, then tied for 32nd at the Open Championship. Frittelli has been hovering around 100th OWGR since winning the John Deere last year. This season, he has collected eight top-25s, including at the Memorial and the 3M.

63. Charles Howell III

Howell has withdrawn from the PGA Championship and will not participate.

Howell has played every PGA but one since 2001. His best major showing was a tie for 10th in 2003, and he's made the PGA cut the past four years, tying for 41st last year. He's always been good at making cuts without high finishes, though this season he's been a little less consistent, missing five in 17 starts. He just tied for third at the 3M, breaking a long stretch without so much as a top-40.

64. Cameron Champ

Champ would be better served on one of those super-long PGA tracks. He's been in two career majors, tying for 32nd at the 2017 U.S. Open and for 54th at last year's PGA. Hey, 2-for-2 in cuts is a start.  Champ has a win in both 2018 and 2019, both lower-level fall events, one an opposite field, which is why he hasn't played in the Masters yet. He has only two other top-10s, yet a good number of top-25s. A top-25 would be a fantastic week for him.

65. Keegan Bradley

The 2011 PGA champ at the Atlanta Athletic Club tied for third the next year. He hasn't come close again, though he's made five straight cuts, including T29 last year. Once ranked 10th in the world, Bradley is now in the 70s and doesn't have a top-25 since Torrey Pines. He doesn't have a top-10 since his runner-up at the 2019 Travelers.

66. Max Homa

Homa has played in only two career majors. One of them was a tie for 64th in last year's PGA. The other was a missed cut in 2013 U.S. Open. He had a great start to 2020, with top-10s at three top-tier events – Torrey Pines, Phoenix and Riviera – but had really cooled off until a tie for third at the 3M Open.

67. Luke List

List has played in only seven career majors and missed the cut in five of them, but one of the others was a tie for sixth in last year's PGA, earning him an invite back. Conveniently, he is playing his best golf in sometime now, quietly finishing tied for 10th in that loaded Memorial field. He also was top-25 at the Rocket Mortgage and made the cut at the 3M.

68. Lucas Herbert

The Aussie is only 24 and this will be his fourth career major. He's made two of three cuts, including last year's PGA (T71). He's ranked in the 70s OWGR and hadn't played anywhere in the world since the restart until the WGC-FedEx. But he did win in Dubai on the European Tour in January, his biggest career moment to date.

69. Sung Kang

There's a good chance May 2019 will forever be the best month of Kang's golf life. He won the Byron Nelson Classic and the next week tied for seventh at the PGA. He actually has another good major finish, tying for 18th at the 2016 U.S. Open. He's made six cuts in seven majors overall. He tied for ninth at Bay Hill but had done little since the restart. Still, he was quietly ranked in the top-60 OWGR.

70. Graeme McDowell

Now 40, McDowell impressively tied for 29th at the PGA and for 16th at the U.S. Open last year, and this track will be shorter. He's had four top-12s at the PGA through the years, but not since 2012. He had a good start to 2020, winning in Saudi Arabia in January, but he hadn't cracked the top-30 in seven PGA Tour starts since then as he's dropped out of the top-50 OWGR. He tied for sixth at the 2005 WGC-Amex.

BORDERLINE

71. Phil Mickelson

Playing his first major as a 50-year-old, this is his 106th overall as a professional. Mickelson of course won the 2005 PGA at Baltusrol and finished second twice, most recently in 2014. But he has cracked the top-20 only once in his past 12 majors and a top-25 this week would be quite an accomplishment. Wouldn't it be fun to see Phil contend one more time? Yes, but it would almost surely happen at Augusta.

72. Bubba Watson

Watson showed some renewed vigor earlier this season, upping his game with improved putting. But he went back to being the same old Bubba, and the PGA is not a place for him to reverse course. He's missed his past three cuts there and doesn't have a top-20 since 2011.

73. Rory Sabbatini

While a regular major player in the early 2000s, Sabbatini has been in only seven the past eight years. Two of them were last year, when he made the cut at both the U.S. Open (T43) and Open Championship (T16). He hasn't played the PGA since 2015, and he has a dreadful record there. In 15 starts, he has nine missed cuts and never inside the top-25. But he's still playing at a high level at age 44, with three top-25s since the restart.

74. J.T. Poston

Poston has played in two career majors, missing the cut at the 2017 U.S. Open and tying for 60th at last year's PGA. He's definitely a young player on the rise, now ranked in the 60s. He returned for the restart with consecutive top-10s but has missed his past three cuts. Making the cut would be a good week.

75. Charl Schwartzel

The 2011 Masters champ is on the way back from a wrist injury, and he just tied for third at the 3M Open. This will be his 50th career major, his 14th PGA, with three of them top-20s, lastly in 2014.

76. Corey Conners

He got to play in three majors last year, including the Masters, which provided him invaluable experience. He made the cut at Augusta (T46) and the PGA (T64). He really has a strong game off the tee and in the fairway, but close to and on the green he is, um, not good. He has five top-25s in 2020, but no top-10s.

77. Joel Dahmen

Dahmen is 32, but he didn't play in a major till last year, when he got into three of them. He tied for 71st at the PGA, his lone cash. He's had some great weeks on Tour, notably back-to-back top-5s at Riviera and Bay Hill. But his putting and wedge game have at least so far prevented him from taking the next step.

78. Zach Johnson

Johnson is now outside the top-200 in the world rankings. He'll be in the Masters and Open Championship for years, but his exemptions into the U.S. Open and PGA – thanks to winning in 2015 at the Old Course -- end this year. He's actually made the cut in 10 of the past 11 PGAs, and he's made eight straight cuts combined at the PGA and U.S. Open. But at 44, that has to end sometime, right? Well, he finished top-20 just two years ago. He's an aging, short-hitting, bad golfer most of the time who just somehow keeps making cuts in majors. He also is one of two Zach Johnsons in the field! The other is an amateur.

79. Jason Kokrak

Kokrak will be back for his 12th career major, and he's done well at the PGA the past two years, tying for 19th and then 23rd. In fact, he's made four straight PGA cuts. That's understandable, because when he's on, he's long and straight (when he's off, he's long and not straight). He tied for third at Colonial, but then missed three cuts before withdrawing from the Memorial after the first round for undisclosed reasons. We should know more after seeing him at the WGC-FedEx.

80. Martin Kaymer

A two-time major winner – the 2010 PGA at Whistling Straits (think: Dustin Johnson) and the 2014 U.S. Open. He also has four other major top-10s, but none since a tie for seventh at the 2016 PGA. He has had a number of good Euro finishes this year – four straight top-16s at one point – but hadn't played anywhere in the world since the restart until heading to the opposite-field Barracuda – he missed the cut. Kaymer was ranked in the 120s OWGR.

81. Jazz Janewattananond

The 24-year-old Thai created quite a stir last year at Bethpage, as he began the final round tied for second with Dustin Johnson. Alas, he ballooned to a 77 and wound up tied for 14th. He also tied for 14th at the WGC-HSBC but has struggled in regular Tour events. He's missed the cut in four straight, three of them since the restart. He just fell out of the top-50 in the world rankings.

82. Russell Henley

Henley has been in decline for a few years now, but he actually has an excellent track record in the majors. He has made the cut 16 times out of 24, with half of them top-25s. But he didn't play in any last year. He has made four straight PGA cuts, two of them top-25s in 2015-16. This season, he's missed seven of 16 cuts after making it to the weekend at the Barracuda, though he does have three top-25s, two of which doubled as top-10s, one of them at the recent Workday.

83. Mike Lorenzo-Vera

The 35-year-old Frenchman tied for 16th at last year's PGA, by far his best major finish in four tries. That's not a lot of majors for being around about 15 years. He also tied for 65th at the 2018 PGA. He was at the WGC-Mexico too (solo 66th). Ranked in the 80s OWGR, Lorenzo-Vera has not played anywhere since the restart.

84. Brendan Steele

He played in 11 of the 12 majors in 2016-18 but hasn't been back since. Not coincidentally, this is his best season in some time, with three top-6s – runner-up at the Sony, T4 at the Honda and, recently, T6 at the Travelers. He's made only eight cuts in 17 majors, but interestingly, half of them have resulted in top-25s, including a tie for 12th at the 2015 PGA.

85. Danny Lee

Lee tied for 36th at the PGA last year, his best finish in four PGA starts. He's made the cut three times. He tied for fifth at Bay Hill just before the stoppage but had been pretty bad since the restart till just missing a top-25 at the 3M.

86. Steve Stricker

The 53-year-old Stricker had an incredible streak going, making the cut in 27 straight majors until missing the cut at last year's PGA, his lone major of 2019. He's played quite a bit on the PGA Tour in 2020, but didn't have anything to show for it till notching a top-20 at the Memorial. Stricker is still ranked about 500th in the world rankings.

87. Joost Luiten

The 34-year-old Dutchman has played a couple of times in Europe since the restart, with a top-10 and a top-20 in low-level events. He has a decent record at the PGA, making four cuts in seven tries, with finishes of T21, solo 26th and T33 before tying for 64th a year ago. He was hovering right around 100th OWGR. Fun Joost Luiten factoid: According to Wikipedia, his full name is Willibrordus Adrianus Maria Luiten. (But to all of us he's just Joost.)

88. Scott Piercy

Piercy has actually had two outstanding finishes in majors, including the 2013 PGA at Oak Hill. He also was runner-up at the 2016 U.S. Open. But those are his only top-25s in 21 career majors. He tied for 41st at last year's PGA. This season has been so-so for the 41-year-old: Only four missed cuts in 16 starts, but only four top-25s, none since Riviera.

89. Doc Redman

The 22-year-old got into the field just last week. He's already been in two majors and one was outstanding – he tied for 20th at the Open Championship last summer. He also missed the cut at the 2018 Masters. He'd had a decent first full season on Tour with six top-25s, including three since the restart.

90. Jim Furyk

This will be his first major as a 50-year-old and, incredibly, he is still ranked in the top-100 OWGR, thanks in large part to finishing second at the 2019 PLAYERS. He had a couple of top-25s in the fall season but nothing since. He's missed the cut in two of the past three PGAs, but he did reach the weekend at the U.S. Open and Open Championship last year. Furyk also made his Champions Tour debut the weekend before the PGA.

91. Harold Varner III

This will Varner's sixth career major, and third PGA. It was only last year when he was in the final group on Sunday only to balloon to an 81 and plummet to a tie for 36th. He keeps improving, but probably not enough to make any noise this week. He'd missed seven cuts in 13 starts in 2020, including his past two.

92. Sepp Straka

Straka began the season missing seven cuts in eight events – with the one cash a tie for fourth at Houston. How weird is that? Since then, he's stabilized, making five of his past six cuts, with four more top-25s on the season. This will be only his second major, having tied for 28th at last year's U.S. Open. Not a bad debut.

93. Branden Grace

Grace tested positive for COVID-19 and will not participate in the PGA Championship.

He has played in every major going back to the 2014 Open Championship (22 straight), a streak extended only because the Masters was pushed back. He had a great run from 2015-17, with five top-6s, two of them at the PGA in '15 and '16. But he's missed two of the past three cuts, sandwiching a tie for 27th in 2018. Formerly 10th in the world, he's now around 80th, and that ranking is propped up more by his results at home (winning the South African Open in January) than on the PGA Tour, where he's missed nine of 15 cuts – he just made the cut at the Barracuda.

94. Cameron Tringale

Tringale has played in 10 majors, making half the cuts, but hasn't been back since the 2016 PGA. He actually was DQed from the 2014 PGA, and you don't seen DQs in majors too often. Tringale was just part of the whopping nine-way tied for third at the 3M Open a couple of weeks back, his lone top-10 this season.

95. Marcus Kinhult

The 24-year-old Swede is set for his third career major – he tied for 32nd at last year's U.S. Open. He's played twice since the restart, including at the British Masters, at which he tied for 38th. He was ranked just outside the top-100 OWGR.

LONG SHOTS

96. Si Woo Kim

He's played in 13 career majors and missed the cut or WD from nine of them. He's 0-for-4 at the PGA.  He's a hard guy to gauge because he mixes so many great/awful results. He tied for 18th at the Memorial and was 11th at the Travelers. But right before the Travelers, he missed the cut (or WD) in nine of 10 tournaments. He's now ranked around 130th OWGR.

97. Keith Mitchell

Mitchell got to play in a featured group at the 3M Open, which tells you more about the 3M than it does Mitchell. Last year was his first time playing majors, and he got in all four. After tying for 43rd at the Masters, he missed three cuts. He has fallen outside the top-100 in the world rankings and was really struggling before a top-25 at the Memorial.

98. Tom Lewis

He's played in six career majors, but hasn't made a cut in three tries in the States, including last year at the PGA. He had really struggled in his first season on the PGA Tour until very recently. He tied for 12th at the Rocket Mortgage, by far his best showing, and then for 32nd at the 3M.

99. Mark Hubbard

Hubbard is 31 and one of the few guys in the field making his major debut. He was on the Tour from 2015 to 2017 without much success, but is having a surprisingly good season now, with six top-25s, three of them doubling as top-10s.

100. Haotong Li

Li tied for 36th at the PGA last year, his first cash in three tries. He made the cut in all three U.S.-based majors last year. Once as high as 32nd in the world, Li is now outside the top-100. He played the Memorial a few weeks back and missed the cut.

101. Jimmy Walker

Now 41 and ranked in the 300s, Walker will be playing the PGA for years thanks to his stunning 2016 win at Baltusrol. He actually tied for 23rd last year and gets an occasional top-25 on Tour, but he's missed 13 of 22 cuts since last year's PGA.

102. Brian Harman

The shorter Harding Park track could help him, and he could use all the help he could get in majors. He's made the cut only seven times in 16 tries. His one good year was 2017: runner-up at the U.S. Open and tied for 13th at the PGA. He's missed five cuts this season, three since the restart.

103. Lanto Griffin

Griffin soared from the 200s OWGR into the 80s thanks to a series of top-10s during the fall season. But he has only one, at Pebble Beach, in 2020. Still, he's notched a couple of top-25s since the restart. And he did admirably tie for 29th at the WGC-Mexico. This will be his second major, after he missed the cut at the 2018 U.S. Open.

104. Matt Jones

He's played 14 majors but this will be his first one as a 40-year-old. He tied for 21st the 2015 PGA, his best major showing. He's made the cut four out of five times in PGAs but hasn't been back since 2016. Jones won the Australian Open in December and then moved inside the top-100 OWGR thanks to a top-5 at Pebble Beach. He was T14 at the Workday.

105. Michael Thompson

Still basking from winning the 3M Open two weeks ago, he headed to the WGC in Memphis. Playing in a major has been a rare occurrence for the 35-year-old. He was in last year's PGA (missed cut), ending a six-year absence dating to 2013. He tied for 22nd at the PGA that year and – who remembers this? – was runner-up to Webb Simpson at the 2012 U.S. Open. 

106. Jason Dufner

The 2013 champ at Oak Hill has not cracked the top-50 at the PGA since then and he's missed the past two cuts. Now 43 and ranked near 300th OWGR, Dufner doesn't have a top-25 in a regular Tour event since the Memorial – the 2019 Memorial, when he tied for seventh.

107. Troy Merritt

This will be Merritt's seventh career major. He made the cut in the first two, including a tie for 54th at the 2015 PGA. He's missed the cut in his other three PGAs, including the past two years. This season, he had a pretty bad season going until a tie for eighth at the Rocket Mortgage and a tie for 22nd at the Workday – his two best finishes all season – but promptly missed his next two cuts.

108. Kurt Kitayama

The 27-year-old California native who has played mostly in Asia and Europe made his major debut last year, tying for 64th at the PGA. He'd played three U.S. events in 2020, topping out with a tie for 18th at Pebble Beach, before entering the Barracuda Championship, where he missed the cut.

109. J.B. Holmes

Holmes' shoulder injury forced him to withdraw from the PGA Championship.

Holmes has missed the cut three of the past four years at the PGA, no doubt a relief to tournament organizers hoping to finish before dark. In one glorious year, 2016, he had top-5s at both the Masters and U.S. Open. His best at the PGA is T24, done twice but not since 2015. He's teed it up only once since the restart and withdrew from the Workday, citing a shoulder injury. He's ranked outside the top-100 OWGR.

110. Vijay Singh

Singh has withdrawn from the PGA Championship and will not participate.

He didn't play last year, breaking a 27-year run in the PGA dating to 1992. He won it in 1998 at Sahalee outside Seattle (that's the last time the PGA was played out West, amazingly enough) and in 2004 at Whistling Straits. Singh recently made the cut at the Memorial and he owes much of his world ranking of around 900th to a tie for sixth at the 2019 Honda. He also tied for sixth at the 2005 WGC-Amex. Singh played in the Champions Tour event the weekend before the PGA.

111. Ryo Ishikawa

The one-time phenom is still only 28. But he hasn't been in a major since 2015. He's made only eight cuts in 20 major starts, five of them at the PGA, with a best of T29 in 2013. He was ranked just inside the top-100 and we last saw him at the Honda, where he missed the cut, and the WGC-Mexico, where he finished 68th.

112. Talor Gooch

He's played in one career major, tying for 66th at the 2017 U.S Open. This season has been his best on Tour, as he'd missed only four cuts in his first 20 starts (with one WD). But three of those cuts have come after the restart. He also has racked up an impressive seven top-25s, including recent ones at the Workday and 3M Open.

113. Tom Hoge

Hoge has played in three career majors, all U.S. Opens, tying for 43rd last year but otherwise missing two cuts. He had a great stretch early in 2020 with four straight top-25s, including back-to-back top-6s at La Quinta and Torrey Pines, but had tailed off significantly since then.

114. Joohyung Kim

The 18-year-old South Korean has burst upon the scene and into the top-100 in the world rankings (and he just turned 18 in June). He tore up the Asian Development Tour last year, winning twice. The he won an Asian Tour event in India and won again on the Korean Tour in early July. At the beginning of last year he was ranked in the 2,000s. Needless to say, this will be his first major and it will also be his first time playing outside of Asia.

115. Andrew Putnam

Putnam is set for his sixth career major after playing three last year. He made all three cuts, though without a top-30, and also made the cut at the 2018 PGA. Making the cut would be quite a change from his recent results; he'd missed seven of his past eight cuts on Tour.

116. Shaun Norris

The 38-year-old South African has been in only four career majors, missing the cut at the PGA and Open Championship last year. He tied for 37th at the WGC-Mexico earlier this year. He hadn't played since the restart until the WGC-FedEx, as his world ranking dipped into the 70s.

117. Sebastian Munoz

He's been in two career majors, missing the cut at the 2017 Open Championship and 2018 U.S. Open. He won the Sanderson Farms during an outstanding fall season, and he has three top-10s and six top-25s this season, though none since the restart.

118. Jorge Campillo

The Spaniard is 34 yet has played in only four career majors, at the Open Championship and PGA the past two years. And … he's 0-for-4. Campillo won his last start in Qatar before the worldwide stoppage to climb back inside the top-100 but he's been idle since then.

119. Victor Perez

The Frenchman is ranked in the top-50 in the world yet has never played in a major. He tied for fourth at last year's WGC in China. Perez has been in the States since the restart, and he missed the cut in his first three starts ever on the PGA Tour. He was in the field at the WGC-FedEx.

120. Nick Taylor

The Canadian has been around for a decade yet has played only two majors as a pro. His lone PGA was a tie for 68th in 2015. And his other was last year's U.S. Open, in which he tied for 43rd. So, 2-for-2. Taylor won out of the blue at Pebble Beach in January for his second career title.

121. Benjamin Hebert

The 33-year-old Frenchman is making the trip over for his first PGA and third career major. He played in the Open Championship last year (T41) and also way back in 2008 (MC). He also took part in the WGC-Mexico in February and tied for 18th. Hebert is still ranked around 100th, though he hadn't played since before the European Tour halted play.

122. Wyndham Clark

Clark is officially in the field for the PGA Championship.

As mentioned at the top, Clark will get in as long as Sebastian Soderberg doesn't win the WGC-FedEx, so he's as good as in. This will be his first major. He had a better record last season than this, as he's missed 10 cuts in 20 starts, with four top-25s – he made the cut at the Barracuda on Friday. Last year, Clark missed only 7 cuts in 27 starts, with eight top-25s. Interestingly, Clark is among the longest hitters on Tour and also among the best putters. You don't see that often.

123. Andrew Landry

He will tee it up for the fifth time in a major. His lone PGA was a tie for 50th two years ago. He had missed five straight cuts before winning the American Express tournament in January for his second career win, but plunged back into poor play immediately afterward.

124. Tyler Duncan

Duncan won the RSM Classic back in November (so he'll be in the Masters, too). He's been in two majors, both U.S. Opens, missing the cut in 2015 and tying for 56th in 2018. He's had only one top-25 since his RSM win, and that was in the 34-player Sentry Tournament of Champions.

125. Carlos Ortiz

He's played in two career majors, both U.S. Opens, tying for 52nd last year but missing the cut in 2016. He had three top-5s during the fall season, including a co-runner-up at Mayakoba. He's now around 130th OWGR.

126.  Vaughn Taylor

*** Taylor withdrew on the eve of the tournament with a rib injury that also knocked him out of the Barracuda Championship.

127. Chan Kim

The 30-year-old is American born playing mostly in Asia. He attended Arizona State. He's been in five majors, missing three cuts, two last year, but also tying for 11th at the 2017 Open Championship. He was ranked as high as 61st but now is nearing 100th. He has played only once in all of 2020, tying for seventh at the New Zealand Open in February.
 
128. C.T. Pan

Pan has played in eight career majors, missing five cuts, including all three last year, among them the PGA. After cracking the top-50 last year thanks to his surprise win at the RBC Heritage, he has plummeted outside the top-100.

129. Nate Lashley

Lashley won the 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic, and that helped him into this week's field (even though the 2020 Rocket Mortgage has subsequently been played). Last year, he tied for 28th at the U.S. Open before missing the cut at the Open Championship, his only major experience. He's been hurt a bit the past few months and hadn't made a cut since Phoenix. But he remained inside the top-100 OWGR.

130. Jim Herman

Herman has actually won twice on the PGA Tour. There was the opposite-field Barbasol in 2019 that got him into this field and the Houston Open in 2016 that got him into the Masters the following week. He's been in eight majors, half of them in 2016, and made four cuts. One of them was T44 at the 2017 PGA, his most recent major experience. He'd made only two of his past 10 cuts and is ranked in the 300s OWGR.

131. Rich Beem

The 2002 winner at Hazeltine, now 49, made the cut last year when he tied for 80th. He then played in the Houston Open and made that cut, too, tying for 55th. And he was in the 3M Open just two weeks but missed the cut. The Champions Tour looms in a month.

132. Ken Tanigawa

The 52-year-old qualified by winning the 2019 Senior PGA Championship. He sank a 10-foot par putt on the 72nd hole at Oak Hill to defeat Scott McCarron by one stroke. He was the 2019 Champions Tour Rookie of the Year.

133. Davis Love III

He's 56 but is still ranked in the 800s OWGR, thanks largely to a top-10 at the 2019 Sony. He also made the cut at Bay Hill back in March.  The 1997 PGA champ at Winged Foot, he has missed his last six PGA cuts and didn't play last year.

134. John Daly

Daly was forced to withdraw from the PGA Championship due to a knee injury.

Daly, 54, has missed the cut every year since 2014. He played four other PGA Tour events this season and made one cut, tying for 69th at the Barbasol. He played last year's PGA in a cart.

135. Shaun Micheel

The outlier of all major winners, Micheel, now 51, won at Oak Hill in 2003. It was his only PGA Tour win. He last made the cut at the PGA in 2011. Micheel missed the cut at the Barracuda on Friday.

CLUB PROS

Those who made the cut last year are listed first. The rest of the list is sorted listed alphabetically.

Ron Labritz, GlenArbor Golf Club, New York.
Seventh PGA (2002-03, '10, '13, '16, '19). He tied for 68th in 2010 and tied for 60th last year.

Ryan Vermeer, Happy Hollow Club, Nebraska.
Fourth PGA (2017-19). He tied for 80th last year.

Marty Jertson, Ping Golf, Inc., Arizona. Fifth PGA (2011-12, '18-19). 
He finished 82nd last year, last among those who made the cut.

***

Michael Auterson, Hickory Woods Golf Course, Ohio. First PGA
Danny Balin, Fresh Meadow C.C., Long Island. Seventh PGA, 2010-13, '18-19.
Alex Beach, Westchester Country Club, New York. Third PGA (2017, '19)
Rich Berberian Jr., Vesper Country Club, New Hampshire. Fifth PGA (2016-19)
Justin Bertsch, Club Pelican Bay, Florida. Second PGA (2019)
Jason Caron, Mill River Club, Long Island (my brother's club). Second PGA (2019)
Ben Cook, Yankee Spring Golf Course, Michigan. Second PGA (2019)
Judd Gibb, Lakeside Municipal Golf Course, Iowa. First PGA
Jeff Hart, PGA of America Life Member, California. First PGA
Zach J. Johnson, Davis Park Golf Course, Utah. Second PGA (2018)
Alex Knoll, Glen Brook Golf Club, Pennsylvania. First PGA
David Muttitt, Los Altos Golf Course, New Mexico. Fifth PGA (2013, '16, '17-18)
John O'Leary, Trump National Golf Club Washington, Washington, D.C. Second PGA (2019)
Rod Perry, Crane Lakes Golf & Country Club, Florida. Seventh PGA (2012-14, '16-17, '19)
J.R. Roth, BOYNE Golf Academy, Michigan. Sixth PGA (1988, '91, '94, '96, 2004) — back after a 16-year absence!
Bob Sowards, Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club, Ohio. 10th PGA (1997, 2001, '03-04, '11-15, '18)
Shawn Warren, Falmouth Country Club, Maine. Second PGA (2018)