How To Qualify For The PGA Championship

Here’s how the PGA Championship field is constructed:
The PGA Championship field has a maximum of 156 players, selected from the following list:

• All former PGA Champions.
• Winners of the last five U.S. Opens.
• Winners of the last five Masters.
• Winners of the last five Open Championships.
• The last Senior PGA Champion.
• The low 15 scorers and ties in the previous PGA Championship.
• The 20 low scorers in the last PGA Professional National Championship.
• The 70 leaders in official money standings on the PGA Tour (starting one week prior to the previous year’s PGA Championship and ending two weeks prior to the current year’s PGA Championship).
• Members of the most recent United States and European Ryder Cup Teams, provided they are in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings as of one week before the start of the tournament.
• Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the previous PGA Championship (does not include pro-am and team competitions, but does include alternate events).
• Vacancies are filled by the first available player from the list of alternates (those below 70th place in official money standings).