Field in Focus: at the BMW PGA Championship

Ahead of the BMW PGA Championship, europeantour.com takes a closer look at the stellar field assembled at Wentworth Club for The European Tour's flagship event...

<strong>In the field, there are:</strong>

<strong>150 players from 26 different countries    <br />
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98 European Tour winners with 434 European Tour victories between them    <br />
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10 Major Champions who have 18 Major victories between them</strong><br />Darren Clarke<br />Ernie Els<br />Retief Goosen<br />Padraig Harrington<br />Martin Kaymer<br />Paul Lawrie<br />Rory McIlroy<br />José María Olazábal<br />Justin Rose<br />Charl Schwartzel<br /><br /><strong>8 European Tour Number Ones</strong><br />Lee Westwodd (2000, 2009)<br />Retief Goosen (2001-2002)<br />Ernie Els (2003-2004)<br />Padraig Harrington (2006)<br />Justin Rose (2007)<br />Robert Karlsson (2008)<br />Martin Kaymer (2010)<br />Luke Donald (2011)<br />Rory McIlroy (2012)<br />Henrik Stenson (2013)<br /><br /><strong>8 PGA Champions competing</strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (1994)<br />Anders Hansen (2002, 2007)<br />Scott Drummond (2004)<br />David Howell (2006)<br />Miguel Angel Jiménez (2008)<br />Simon Khan (2010)<br />Luke Donald (2011, 2012)<br />Matteo Manassero (2013)

<strong>4 of the current top ten in the Official World Golf Ranking<br />
</strong>Henrik Stenson (3)<br />Sergio Garcia (7)<br />Justin Rose (9)<br />Rory McIlroy (10)

<strong>5 former World Number Ones<br />
</strong>Rory McIlroy<br />Luke Donald<br />Lee Westwood<br />Martin Kaymer<br />Ernie Els<br /><strong> <br />
26 Ryder Cup players</strong><br /><br /><strong>2 Ryder Cup Captains</strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (2012)<br />Paul McGinley (2014)<br /><br /><strong>8 WGC winners with 11 WGC titles between them</strong><br />Darren Clarke<br />Luke Donald<br />Ernie Els<br />Martin Kaymer<br />Francesco Molinari<br />Ian Poulter<br />Justin Rose<br />Henrik Stenson<br /><br /><strong>17 of the 2014 European Tour winners competing</strong><br />Felipe Aguilar<br />Thomas Aiken<br />Thomas Björn<br />Daniel Brooks<br />Alejandro Cañizares<br />George Coetzee<br />Marco Crespi<br />Ross Fisher<br />Stephen Gallacher<br />Sergio Garcia<br />Miguel Angel Jiménez<br />Pablo Larrazábal<br />Alexander Levy<br />Morten Ørum Madsen<br />Charl Schwartzel<br />Dawie Van der Walt<br />Lee Westwood<br /><br /><strong>10 British PGA Professionals</strong><br />Mark Hooper<br />Jason Levermore<br />Matt Ford<br />Ian Ellis<br />Graham Fox<br />Chris Kelly<br />Matthew Cort<br />Damien Mooney<br />Liam Bond<br />Grieg Hutcheon<br /><br /><strong>3 2013 Qualifying School Graduates</strong><br />Carlos Del Moral<br />Fabrizio Zanotti<br />Gary Stal