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The 94 players qualified for 2017 Masters and how they got there

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Note: This story was updated on Sunday, April 2 to reflect an addition and a subtraction from the field.

The 2017 Masters field is now set!

With Russell Henley being the winner of this week’s Shell Houston Open, he was the last to qualify for the year’s first major championship, April 6-9 at Augusta National.

Here’s a look at the 94 players qualified, and how they earned their invites (Note: players qualifying in more than one category are listed only under the first category in which they qualified):

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CATEGORY 1: Masters Tournament champions (Lifetime)

  • Angel Cabrera
  • Fred Couples
  • Trevor Immelman
  • Zach Johnson
  • Bernhard Langer
  • Sandy Lyle
  • Phil Mickelson
  • Larry Mize
  • Mark O’Meara
  • Jose Maria Olazabal
  • Charl Schwartzel
  • Adam Scott
  • Vijay Singh
  • Jordan Spieth
  • Bubba Watson
  • Mike Weir
  • Danny Willett
  • Ian Woosnam

Tiger Woods, who qualified under Category 1, has withdrawn from the tournament.

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

  • Dustin Johnson
  • Martin Kaymer
  • Justin Rose
  • Webb Simpson

CATEGORY 3: British Open champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)

  • Ernie Els
  • Rory McIlroy
  • Henrik Stenson

CATEGORY 4: PGA Championship champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)

  • Jason Day
  • Jason Dufner
  • Jimmy Walker

CATEGORY 5: Winners of The Players Championship (Three years)

  • Rickie Fowler

CATEGORY 6: Current Olympic Gold medalist (One year)

(Justin Rose first qualifies as the 2013 U.S. Open champion)

CATEGORY 7: Current U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up (Honorary, non-competing after one year)

  • Brad Dalke
  • Curtis Luck

CATEGORY 8: Current British Amateur champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)

  • Scott Gregory

CATEGORY 9: Current Asia-Pacific Amateur champion

(Curtis Luck first qualifies as the 2016 U.S. Amateur champion)

CATEGORY 10: Current Latin America Amateur champion

  • Toto Gana

CATEGORY 11: Current U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

  • Stewart Hagestad

CATEGORY 12: The first 12 players, including ties, in the previous year’s Masters Tournament

  • Daniel Berger
  • Paul Casey
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick
  • J.B. Holmes
  • Soren Kjeldsen
  • Hideki Matsuyama
  • Brandt Snedeker
  • Lee Westwood

CATEGORY 13: The first four players, including ties, in the previous year’s U.S. Open

  • Jim Furyk
  • Shane Lowry
  • Scott Piercy

CATEGORY 14: The first four players, including ties, in the previous year’s British Open

  • Steve Stricker

CATEGORY 15: The first four players, including ties, in the previous year’s PGA Championship

  • Branden Grace
  • Brooks Koepka
  • Daniel Summerhays

CATEGORY 16: Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters

  • Russell Henley
  • Sergio Garcia
  • Adam Hadwin
  • James Hahn
  • Charley Hoffman
  • Mackenzie Hughes
  • Billy Hurley III
  • Si Woo Kim
  • Russell Knox
  • Marc Leishman
  • William McGirt
  • Ryan Moore
  • Rod Pampling
  • Pat Perez
  • Jon Rahm
  • Patrick Reed
  • Brendan Steele
  • Brian Stuard
  • Hudson Swafford
  • Justin Thomas
  • Jhonattan Vegas

CATEGORY 17: Those qualifying for the previous year’s season-ending Tour Championship

  • Roberto Castro
  • Kevin Chappell
  • Emiliano Grillo
  • Kevin Kisner
  • Matt Kuchar
  • Kevin Na
  • Sean O’Hair
  • Gary Woodland

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

  • Byeong Hun An
  • Rafael Cabrera-Bello
  • Bill Haas
  • Tyrrell Hatton
  • Yuta Ikeda
  • Francesco Molinari
  • Alex Noren
  • Louis Oosthuizen
  • Thomas Pieters
  • Andy Sullivan
  • Bernd Wiesberger
  • Chris Wood

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

  • Ross Fisher
  • Tommy Fleetwood
  • Hideto Tanihara
  • Jeunghun Wang

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