Next season will mark the first time in the history of the World Rankings with all but two players inside the top-30 on the rankings to be members of the PGA Tour.

Germany’s Martin Kaymer is finally taking the last step and taking up the 10-year exemption he earned in capturing the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

Germany’s Martin Kaymer eyeing competing in the States in 2013 as a member of the PGA Tour.

Kaymer, currently ranked 30th the world, will join Medinah winning colleagues Peter Hanson of Sweden and Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium, in becoming a member of the PGA Tour.

It will mean that from the first PGA Tour event of 2013 all but the current World No. 27 Paul Lawrie of Scotland and World No. 29 Francesco Molinaria of Italy will not be members of the PGA Tour.

This will be first time since the World Rankings commenced at the 1986 Masters that there has been such a saturation of world ranked players to compete on the PGA Tour.

And joining them will be England’s David Lynn is who has filled out the 2013 PGA Tour membership application forms and taking benefit of finishing runner-up to Rory McIlroy in this year’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.

As well, there could be a further five set to join them with the England pair of Ross Fisher and Ollie Fisher plus Frenchman Romain Wattel and the Swedish pair of Robert Karlsson and Alex Noren looking to get their PGA Tour cards at next weeks Q-School in California.