Who is playing the 2026 US PGA Championship and how did they qualify?
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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.
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
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
Brandt Snedeker
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
Tom Hoge
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
Sudarshan Yellamaraju
Bold - denotes DP World Tour member of affiliate
\Players can be exempt via more than one category - participants and primary category subject to change*
\Jake Knapp withdrew event week with a thumb injury*
