2024 Masters Tournament Unofficial Field List, Qualifiers

This is the unofficial field list for the 2024 Masters, which is set for April 11-14 at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Ga. 

Players can qualify for the first of golf's majors in many ways, including past champions and winners of other major championships (more on that below). We'll update this article each time another player qualifies between now and the tournament in April.

Jon Rahm will be the defending champion at the 2024 Masters. 

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First, here's how players qualify for the Masters, according to the official site at Masters.com. 

1. Masters Tournament champions (Lifetime)
2. U.S. Open champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
3. British Open champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
4. PGA champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
5. Winners of the Players Championship 2022-2024 (Three years)
6. Current Olympic Gold Medalist (One year)
7. 2023 U.S. Amateur champion (7-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year) and the runner-up (7-B) to the 2023 U.S. Amateur champion
8. 2023 British Amateur champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)
9. 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion
10. 2024 Latin America Amateur champion
11. 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
12. The first 12 players, including ties, in the 2023 Masters Tournament
13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 U.S. Open Championship
14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 British Open Championship
15. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 PGA Championship
16. Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from the 2023 Masters to the 2024 Masters (including fall 2023)
17. Those qualifying for the 2023 Tour Championship
18. The 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year
19. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament
20. Special invitees

2024 Masters Tournament Field List

Here is the current, unofficial field list, along with the categories in which the players qualified.

1. Past Masters champions

• Fred Couples (1)
• Sergio Garcia (1)
• Dustin Johnson (1)
• Zach Johnson (1)
• Bernhard Langer (1)
• Hideki Matsuyama (1, 16, 18)
• Jose Maria Olazabal (1)
• Phil Mickelson (1, 12)
• Jon Rahm (1, 14, 17, 18)
• Patrick Reed (1, 12)
  
• Scottie Scheffler (1, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18)
• Charl Schwartzel (1, 12)
• Adam Scott (1, 17, 18)
• Vijay Singh (1)
• Jordan Spieth (1, 12, 17, 18)
• Bubba Watson (1)
• Mike Weir (1)
• Danny Willett (1)
• Tiger Woods (1)

2. U.S. Open champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)

• Wyndham Clark (2, 16, 17, 18)
• Bryson DeChambeau (2, 15)
• Matt Fitzpatrick (2, 12, 16, 17, 18)
• Gary Woodland (2)

3. British Open champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)

• Brian Harman (3, 17, 18)
• Cam Smith (3, 5, 13, 18)
• Collin Morikawa (3, 12, 16, 17, 18)
• Shane Lowry (3, 12, 18)

4. PGA champions 2019-2023 (Honorary, non-competing after five years)

• Brooks Koepka (4, 12, 18)
• Justin Thomas (4, 12, 17, 18)

5. Winners of the Players Championship 2022-2024 (Three years)

6. Current Olympic Gold Medalist (One year)

• n/a

7. 2023 U.S. Amateur Champion (7-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year) and the runner-up (7-B) to the 2023 U.S. Amateur champion

• Nick Dunlap (7-A)
• Neal Shipley (7-B)

8. 2023 British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)

• Christo Lamprecht (8)

9. 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion

• Jasper Stubbs (9)

10. 2024 Latin America Amateur champion

• Santiago de la Fuente

11. 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

• Stewart Hagestad (11)

12. The first 12 players, including ties, in the 2023 Masters Tournament

• Russell Henley (12, 17, 18)
• Cameron Young (12, 18)
• Viktor Hovland (12, 15, 16, 17, 18)
• Sahith Theegala (12, 16, 18)
• Xander Schauffele (12, 17, 18)

13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 U.S. Open Championship

• Rory McIlroy (13, 16, 17, 18) 

14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 British Open Championship

• Sepp Straka (14, 17, 18)
• Jason Day (14, 16, 17, 18)
• Tom Kim (14, 17, 18)

15. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 PGA Championship

• Kurt Kitayama (15, 18)
• Cam Davis (15, 18)

16. Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from the 2023 Masters to the 2024 Masters (including fall 2023)

• Tony Finau (16, 17, 18)
• Emiliano Grillo (16, 17, 18)
• Nick Taylor (16, 17)
• Keegan Bradley (16, 17, 18)
• Rickie Fowler (16, 17, 18)
• Sepp Straka (16, 17, 18)
• Lee Hodges (16)
• Lucas Glover (16, 17, 18)
• Luke List (16)
• Erik Van Rooyen (16)
• Ludvig Aberg (16, 18)
• Chris Kirk (16)
• Grayson Murray (16)
• Matthieu Pavon (16)
• Jake Knapp (16)
• Austin Eckroat (16)

17. Those qualifying for the 2023 Tour Championship

• Patrick Cantlay (17, 18)
• Tommy Fleetwood (17, 18)
• Adam Schenk (17, 18)
• Sam Burns (17, 18)
• Max Homa (17, 18)
• Tyrrell Hatton (17, 18)
• Si Woo Kim (17, 18)
• Sungjae Im (17, 18)
• Corey Conners (17, 18))
• Taylor Moore (17)

18. The 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year

• Ryan Fox (18)
• Min Woo Lee (18)
• Denny McCarthy (18)
• Justin Rose (18)
• Will Zalatoris (18)
• Harris English (18)
• Eric Cole (18)
• J.T. Poston (18)
• Adrian Meronk (18)
• Adam Hadwin (18)
• Nicolai Hojgaard (18)

19. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament

• TBD

20. Special invitees

• Ryo Hisatsune
• Joaquin Niemann
• Thorbjorn Olesen

Past champions not expected to play