Golf Tidbits: Why golf is a gentleman's sport
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The complete field has not yet been determined. The following is the qualification criteria that will be used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses:
All former PGA Champions
Paul Azinger, Rich Beem, Mark Brooks, John Daly, Steve Elkington, Davis Love III, Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson (3,9,10), Vijay Singh, Jeff Sluman, David Toms (9), Bob Tway
(Eligible but not expected to compete: Jack Burke, Jr., Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Bob Rosburg, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins, Tiger Woods)
Last five U.S. Open Champions
Ángel Cabrera, Geoff Ogilvy (6,10), Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen
Last five Masters Champions
Trevor Immelman (6), Zach Johnson (9)
Last five British Open Champions
Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington
Current Senior PGA Champion
Jay Haas
15 low scorers and ties in the 2007 PGA Championship
Stephen Ames (10), Stuart Appleby, Woody Austin, K.J. Choi (10), Simon Dyson, Ernie Els (10), Anders Hansen, Arron Oberholser, Justin Rose, Adam Scott (10), John Senden, Kevin Sutherland, Scott Verplank (9), Boo Weekley (10)
20 low scorers in the 2008 PGA Professional National Championship
Sam Arnold, Ryan Benzel, Bradley Dean, Eric Dugas, Frank Esposito, Jr., Jim Estes, Kyle Flinton, Scott Hebert, Vince Jewell, Rick Leibovich, David Long, Eric Manning, Brad Martin, Jeffrey Martin, Alan Morin, Curt Sanders, Sonny Skinner, Tim Thelen, Tim Weinhart, Don Yrene
70 leaders in official money standings from the 2007 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and Reno-Tahoe Open to the 2008 RBC Canadian Open July 27, 2008
Members of the 2006 United States Ryder Cup team
Chad Campbell (10), Stewart Cink (10), Chris DiMarco, Jim Furyk, J. J. Henry, Vaughn Taylor, Brett Wetterich
Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2007 PGA Championship
Daniel Chopra, Steve Flesch, Sergio García, Brian Gay, J. B. Holmes, Ryuji Imada, Anthony Kim, Greg Kraft, Justin Leonard, Steve Lowery, George McNeill, Sean O'Hair, Kenny Perry, Andrés Romero, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Stricker, D. J. Trahan, Johnson Wagner, Mike Weir (through the Travelers Championship)
Vacancies are filled by the first available player from the list of alternates (those below 70th place in official money standings)
In addition, the PGA reserves the right to invite additional players not included in the categories listed above.
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