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Who is playing the 2026 US PGA Championship and how did they qualify?
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Who is playing the 2026 US PGA Championship and how did they qualify?

The second Major Championship on the 2026 Race to Dubai is almost upon us as the world's best prepare to descend on Aronimink Golf Club for the US PGA Championship.

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For the DP World Tour members in the field, it is an opportunity to hoover up enhanced Race to Dubai points while all of the 156 comptitors are chasing a place in the history books.

Here is the confirmed field so far and how they primarily qualified.

All former winners of the US PGA Championship

Keegan Bradley

Jason Day

Jason Dufner

Pádraig Harrington

Martin Kaymer

Brooks Koepka

Rory McIlroy

Shaun Micheel

Collin Morikawa

Xander Schauffele

Scottie Scheffler

Justin Thomas

Jimmy Walker

YE Yang

Winners of the last five Masters (2022–2026)

Jon Rahm

Winners of the last five U.S. Opens (2021–2025)

JJ Spaun

Bryson DeChambeau

Wyndham Clark

Matt Fitzpatrick

Winners of the last five Open Championships (2021-2025)

Brian Harman

Cameron Smith

Winners of the last three the Players Championships (2024–2026)

Cameron Young

The top three on the International Federation Official World Golf Ranking List

Casey Jarvis

Travis Smyth

Kazuki Higa

Winner of the 2025 & 2026 Senior PGA Championship

Stewart Cink

The top 15 finishers and ties from the 2025 US PGA Championship

Harris English

Davis Riley

Taylor Pendrith

Jhonattan Vegas

JT Poston

Joaquin Niemann

Ben Griffin

Denny McCarthy

Ryan Gerard

Joe Highsmith

Si Woo Kim

The top 20 finishers from the 2026 PGA Professional Championship

Jesse Droemer

Ben Kern

Michael Kartrude

Tyler Collet

Zach Haynes

Garrett Sapp

Braden Shattuck

Mark Geddes

Austin Hurt

Ben Polland

Michael Block

Bryce Fisher

Ryan Lenahan

Jared Jones

Francisco Bide

Chris Gabriele

Derek Berg

Ryan Vermeer

Paul McClure

Timothy Wiseman

The top 70 players who are eligible and have earned the most US PGA Championship Points from the 2025 Truist Championship and the 2025 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic through the 2026 Cadillac Championship

Ludvig Åberg

Russell Henley

Tommy Fleetwood

Robert MacIntyre

Patrick Cantlay

Hideki Matsuyama

Sam Burns

Maverick McNealy

Adam Scott

Jake Knapp

Viktor Hovland

Akshay Bhatia

Rickie Fowler

Alex Noren

Chris Gotterup

Shane Lowry

Sepp Straka

Min Woo Lee

Jordan Spieth

Jacob Bridgeman

Justin Rose

Nicolai Højgaard

Kurt Kitayama

Harry Hall

Tyrrell Hatton

Alex Smalley

Nick Taylor

Sam Stevens

Sahith Theegala

Matt McCarty

Corey Conners

Gary Woodland

Ryan Fox

Michael Thorbjornsen

Daniel Berger

Michael Kim

Pierceson Coody

Ryo Hisatsune

Andrew Putnam

Bud Cauley

Matt Wallace

Ricky Castillo

Chris Kirk

Patrick Rodgers

Andrew Novak

Max Greyserman

Rico Hoey

Sami Välimäki

Matti Schmid

Nico Echavarria

David Lipsky

Aldrich Potgieter

Emiliano Grillo

Playing members of the last-named U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams (2025)

Rasmus Højgaard

Winners of PGA TOUR co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, from the 2025 Charles Schwab Challenge through the 2026 Truist Championship and the 2026 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic

Michael Brennan

Alex Fitzpatrick

William Mouw

Steven Fisk

Adam Schenk

Brian Campbell

The top 3 finishers on the 2026 DP World Tour Asian Swing Rankings

Mikael Lindberg

Bernd Wiesberger

Jordan Gumberg

PGA of America invitees

Angel Ayora

Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Chandler Blanchet

Dan Brown

Thomas Detry

Luke Donald

Lucas Glover

Garrick Higgo

Daniel Hillier

Ian Holt

Max Homa

Billy Horschel

Sungjae Im

Stephan Jaeger

Dustin Johnson

Kota Kaneko

Johnny Keefer

Haotong Li

Max McGreevy

Tom McKibbin

Keith Mitchell

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen

John Parry

Marco Penge

David Puig

Aaron Rai

Patrick Reed

Kristoffer Reitan

Adrien Saddier

Jayden Schaper

Jordan Smith

Martin Smotherman

Elvis Smylie

Andy Sullivan

Bold - denotes DP World Tour member of affiliate

*Players can be exempt via more than one category - participants and primary category subject to change

*The field currently stands at 154 awaiting the winners of the 2026 Truist Championship and the 2026 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic. Should those winners both already be exempt, the first two alternates are currently Sudarshan Yellamaraju and Tom Hoge.

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