SAN MARTIN, Calif. – There are nine winners from the 2013 PGA Tour season in this week’s Frys.com Open field. The Hyundai Tournament of Champions, this is not.
Unlike the former season-opener, which was on offer to the previous campaign’s Tour winners, this is a full-field event. There are 132 players in the field, including eight Tour rookies, eight sponsor exemptions and eight players using major medical extensions.
There is one goal, however: Getting a jump on next season’s Tour card.
But just because you have a card for this season doesn’t mean you get to use it. Only 29 players made it into the original field via the Web.com Tour priority ranking. Two more were added when Steve Marino and Jonathan Byrd (both using major medical extensions this year) withdrew.
A look at how the field breaks down:
Winner - PGA/U.S. Open Championship
Lucas Glover
Y.E. Yang
Winner - The Players Championship
Tim Clark
Winner - Masters Tournament
Angel Cabrera
Winner - British Open (since 1990)
Stewart Cink
Tournament winner in past two seasons
Charlie Beljan
Jonas Blixt
Scott Brown
Ben Curtis
Derek Ernst
Tommy Gainey
Brian Gay
J.J. Henry
Billy Horschel
John Huh
Marc Leishman
George McNeill
John Merrick
Geoff Ogilvy
Carl Pettersson
Ted Potter, Jr.
Patrick Reed
Kyle Stanley
Johnson Wagner
Gary Woodland
Career money exemption
Robert Allenby
Stephen Ames
Fred Funk
Scott Verplank
Mike Weir
Sponsors exemptions - Qualifying tournament
Jamie Lovemark
Kevin Tway
Sponsors exemptions - Members not otherwise exempt
Chad Campbell
Robert Streb
Sponsors exemptions - unrestricted
Max Homa
Brooks Koepka
Justin Thomas
Chris Williams
PGA section champion\Player of the Year
David Carr
Past champion of respective event
Cameron Beckman
Troy Matteson
Rocco Mediate
Bryce Molder
Life Member
Davis Love III
Vijay Singh
Top 125 on prior season’s FedExCup points list
Charles Howell III
Jimmy Walker
Daniel Summerhays
Chris Stroud
Kevin Chappell
Rory Sabbatini
Brian Davis
David Hearn
Nicholas Thompson
Jason Kokrak
Brendan Steele
Freddie Jacobson
Josh Teater
Cameron Tringale
John Rollins
Camilo Villegas
Jerry Kelly
Justin Leonard
Luke Guthrie
Robert Garrigus
Brian Stuard
Brian Harman
Stuart Appleby
Pat Perez
Erik Compton
William McGirt
Aaron Baddeley
James Driscoll
Jeff Overton
John Senden
James Hahn
Jason Bohn
Jeff Maggert
Justin Hicks
Morgan Hoffmann
Chez Reavie
Scott Langley
Charlie Wi
Steven Bowditch
Ben Crane
Top 125 (Prior season non-member)
Hideki Matsuyama
Major medical extension
Kevin Na
Retief Goosen
Paul Goydos
Blake Adams
Briny Baird
Spencer Levin
Jhonattan Vegas
Jose Coceres
Leading money winner from Web.com Tour and Web.com Tour Finals
Michael Putnam
John Peterson
Top 10 and ties from the previous event
Andres Gonzales
Top finishers from Web.com Tour prior season
Chesson Hadley
Seung-Yul Noh
Andrew Svoboda
Trevor Immelman
Will MacKenzie
Scott Gardiner
Edward Loar
Ben Martin
Brendon Todd
Ryo Ishikawa
Brad Fritsch
Kevin Kisner
Sean O’Hair
Bud Cauley
Heath Slocum
Russell Knox
Hudson Swafford
Will Claxton
Brice Garnett
Tyrone Van Aswegen
Chad Collins
Billy Hurley III
Danny Lee
Jim Herman
Troy Merritt
Lee Williams
Andrew Loupe
Ricky Barnes
Peter Malnati
Bobby Gates
Bronson La’Cassie