2013 Masters – Six Days To The Season’s First Major.

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2013 Masters -Tournament Qualification & Invitees

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Qualification for Invitation

  1. Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
  2. US Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
  3. British Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
  4. PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
  5. Winners of The Players Championship (Three years)
  6. Current US Amateur Champion (6-A) (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year) and the runner-up (6-B) to the current US Amateur Champion
  7. Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year)
  8. Current Asian Amateur Champion
  9. Current US Amateur Public Links Champion
  10. Current US Mid-Amateur Champion
  11. The first 16 players, including ties, in the previous year’s Masters Tournament
  12. The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year’s US Open Championship
  13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s British Open Championship
  14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s PGA Championship
  15. The 30 leaders on the Final Official PGA Tour Money List for the previous calendar year
  16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters
  17. Those qualifying for the previous year’s season-ending 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

Augusta green jacket

Past Champions Not Playing in 2013

  • Tommy Aaron
  • Jack Burke Jr.
  • Billy Casper
  • Charles Coody
  • Nick Faldo
  • Raymond Floyd
  • Doug Ford
  • Bob Goalby
  • Jack Nicklaus
  • Arnold Palmer
  • Gary Player
  • Fuzzy Zoeller

The Players Competing in 2013

Masters-Augusta-National-20131.  Past Masters Champions (with qualifying category in brackets)

Ángel Cabrera, Fred Couples (11), Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (11,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Mark O’Meara, Charl Schwartzel (18,19), Vijay Singh, Craig Stadler, Bubba Watson (11,15,17,18,19), Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2,13,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell (11,12,18,19), Rory McIlroy (4,14,15,16,17,18,19), Webb Simpson (12,15,17,18,19)

3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Ernie Els (13,15,17,18,19), Pádraig Harrington (4,11,12), Louis Oosthuizen (11,15,17,18,19)

4. Last five PGA Champions
Keegan Bradley (14,15,16,17,18,19), Martin Kaymer (18,19), Y. E. Yang

5. Last three winners of The Players Championship
K. J. Choi (18), Tim Clark, Matt Kuchar (11,15,16,17,18,19)

6. Top two finishers in the 2012 U.S. Amateur
Steven Fox, Michael Weaver

7. Winner of the 2012 Amateur Championship
Alan Dunbar

8. Winner of the 2012 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
Guan Tianlang

9. Winner of the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links
T. J. Vogel

10. Winner of the 2012 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Nathan Smith

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2012 Masters Tournament
Jim Furyk (12,15,17,18,19), Sergio García (15,16,17,18,19), Peter Hanson (18,19), Hunter Mahan (15,17,18,19), Kevin Na, Ian Poulter (14,18,19), Justin Rose (14,15,17,18,19), Adam Scott (13,15,17,18,19), Lee Westwood (15,17,18,19)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2012 U.S. Open
Jason Dufner (15,16,17,18,19), John Peterson, Michael Thompson (16,19), David Toms (18)

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2012 British Open Championship
Brandt Snedeker (15,16,17,18,19)

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2012 PGA Championship
David Lynn (18), Carl Pettersson (15,16,17,18,19)

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2012 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Ben Curtis (16), Luke Donald (17,18,19), Rickie Fowler (16,17,18,19), Robert Garrigus (17,18,19), John Huh (17), Dustin Johnson (16,17,18,19), Ryan Moore (17,18,19), Scott Piercy (16,17,18,19), Steve Stricker (17,18,19), Bo Van Pelt (17,18,19), Nick Watney (16,17,18,19)

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2012 Masters Tournament and the 2013 Masters Tournament
Brian Gay, Russell Henley (19), Marc Leishman, John Merrick, D. A. Points, Ted Potter, Jr., Kevin Streelman (through the Shell Houston Open),  ???? (Valero Texas Open)

17. All players qualifying for the 2012 edition of The Tour Championship
John Senden (18,19)

18. Top 50 on the final 2012 Official World Golf Ranking list
Thomas Bjørn, George Coetzee (19), Nicolas Colsaerts (19), Jason Day (19), Jamie Donaldson (19), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (19), Hiroyuki Fujita, Branden Grace (19), Bill Haas (19), Paul Lawrie (19), Matteo Manassero (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Thorbjørn Olesen (19)

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking list on March 31, 2013
Fredrik Jacobson, Henrik Stenson, Richard Sterne

20. International invitees
Ryo Ishikawa, Thaworn Wiratchant



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