The U.S. Open Championship, will have no qualifying for its 2020 edition, slated for September 17-20 at Winged Food Golf Club, in Mamaroneck, New York.
The USGA announced yesterday its exemption categories, which will be held without qualifying for the first time since 1924.
While some of the exemptions are still kept intact, the organization has added several new categories, ranging from top finishers in upcoming PGA Tour events to Korn Ferry Tour points leaders to top-ranked amateurs.
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“This has been a very challenging year, and to have to go without qualifying is deeply disappointing to us,” said John Bodenhamer, the USGA’s senior managing director of championships. “At the same time, we’ve worked very hard to create pathways for a representative field, and we feel good about what we’ve come up with.”
As of now, 84 players are exempted, because of an updated exemption category, which mentions inclusion of the top-70 from the Official World Golf Rankings, instead of the usual top-60.
The USGA will also exempt the top two finishers, not otherwise exempt, in non-major PGA Tour events beginning with the Memorial Tournament and ending with the Wyndham Championship. The top three finishers will be taken from the PGA Championship on Aug. 6-9 at TPC Harding Park. Across the pond, the top five in aggregate points from the European Tour’s five-event U.K. swing will also receive spots.
Other new categories include the top five players in both Korn Ferry Tour regular-season and Finals points, top seven ranked players, not otherwise exempt, in the World Amateur Golf Ranking after the U.S. Amateur, and Order of Merit leaders on several international tours.
The following is a full list of exemption categories for the 2020 U.S. Open:
Past 10 winners of the U.S. Open :
Gary Woodland (2019)
Brooks Koepka (2018)
Dustin Johnson (2016)
Jordan Spieth (2015)
Martin Kaymer (2014)
Justin Rose (2013)
Webb Simpson (2012)
Rory McIlroy (2011)
Graeme McDowell (2010)
Top 10 and ties from 2019 U.S. Open:
Xander Schauffele
Jon Rahm
Chez Reavie
Adam Scott
Louis Oosthuizen
Henrik Stenson
Chesson Hadley
Winner of the 2019 U.S. Senior Open:
Steve Stricker
Winner of the 2019 U.S. Amateur:
a-Andy Ogletree
Winners of the 2019 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur, and the 2019 U.S. Amateur runner-up:
a-Preston Summerhays (U.S. Junior)
a-Lukas Michel (U.S. Mid-Amateur)
a-John Augenstein (U.S. Amateur runner-up)
Past four winners of the Masters Tournament (2016-2019):
Tiger Woods (2019)
Patrick Reed (2018)
Sergio Garcia (2017)
Danny Willett (2016)
Past six winners of the PGA Championship (2015-2020):
Justin Thomas (2017)
Jimmy Walker (2016)
Jason Day (2015)
Past five winners of The Open Championship (2015-19):
Shane Lowry (2019)
Francesco Molinari (2018)
Zach Johnson (2015)
Those players qualifying for the 2019 Tour Championship:
Paul Casey
Tony Finau
Kevin Kisner
Hideki Matsuyama
Bryson DeChambeau
Jason Kokrak
Tommy Fleetwood
Matt Kuchar
Sungjae Im
Rickie Fowler
Abraham Ancer
Patrick Cantlay
Marc Leishman
Brandt Snedeker
Corey Conners
Charles Howell III
Lucas Glover
Multiple winners of non-opposite-field PGA Tour events since the 2019 U.S. Open:
TBD
Winner of the 2019 British Amateur:
a-James Sugrue
Winner of the 2019 Mark H. McCormack Medal:
a-Cole Hammer
Top 70 in Official World Golf Ranking as of March 15:
Tyrrell Hatton (21)
Matthew Fitzpatrick (25)
Bernd Wiesberger (26)
Kevin Na (30)
Lee Westwood (31)
Billy Horschel (34)
Cameron Smith (35)
Jazz Janewattananond (39)
Victor Perez (40)
Shugo Imahira (41)
Erik van Rooyen (42)
Matt Wallace (43)
Collin Morikawa (44)
Scottie Scheffler (45)
Rafa Cabrera Bello (46)
Christian Bezuidenhout (47)
Byeong-Hun An (50)
Sunghoon Kang (52)
Bubba Watson (53)
Brendon Todd (54)
Adam Hadwin (55)
Viktor Hovland (57)
Ian Poulter (58)
Tom Lewis (59)
Shaun Norris (60)
Phil Mickelson (61)
Andrew Putnam (62)
Keegan Bradley (62)
Lucas Herbert (64)
Eddie Pepperell (65)
Robert MacIntyre (67)
Kurt Kitayama (68)
Chan Kim (69)
Joel Dahmen (70)
