Lucas Glover retained 50th place in the final world rankings of the year, making him one of 10 players who will be added to the invitation list to play in the Masters.
The field has eight more players than it did a year ago at this time.
At the end of the calendar year, the Masters takes over the top 50 from the official World Golf Ranking, and the top 50 who have not yet been invited from the world rankings that are published a week before the tournament from April 10 to 13.
The addition of the 10 players brings the field to 85 players who are eligible and expected to play. A year ago, there were 77 currently eligible players, a difference that would indicate weaker players in the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Fall.
The Masters has the smallest field of the four majors, and Augusta National prefers to keep it under 100 to give players an experience unlike any other. The last peak of 100 players was in 1966, when there were 103 players in the field.
This year’s Masters had 89 players.
Glover had fallen outside the top 50 in recent weeks, but the rankings are based on a formula that measures a two-year period, with points gradually losing value.
Tom Kim at number 21 was the highest ranked player who had not yet qualified. The others who enter via the world rankings are Nick Dunlap, Max Greyserman, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jason Day, Corey Conners, Denny McCarthy, Justin Rose and Min Woo Lee.
It was the second year in a row that McCarthy and Lee earned a place in the Masters via the year-end world rankings. Neither has won on the PGA Tour.
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A year ago, four players out of 77 who qualified by year’s end earned invitations by winning PGA Tour events in the fall. This year, all eight fall winners were ineligible if they won tournaments.
Five of those fall winners – Matt McCarty, Kevin Yu, Nico Echavarria, Rafael Campos and Maverick McNealy – will play the Masters for the first time.
The PGA Tour returned to its 2024 calendar schedule, with several major events (including the Olympics) on the schedule. Most top players have not competed in a PGA Tour event in the last three months of the year.
The Masters joins the field with the winner of the Latin America Amateur Championship, each winner of a PGA Tour event offering full FedExCup points, and the top 50 world rankings to be released March 31. Fourteen tournaments offer an invitation to the Masters.
Augusta National could also choose to use a special invitation. Three were offered last year, including one for LIV Golf’s Joaquin Niemann, noting his victory at the Australian Open and another top finish in Australia in his bid to play globally.
Thorbjorn Olesen from Denmark also received a special invitation as he mainly played on the European tour. Historically, the club has not been as favorable to PGA Tour members as they have more avenues for entry.
Among those missing the top 50 was Nicolai Hojgaard, who shot 76 points on the final day of Augusta this year to finish tied for 16th. Hojgaard, who played in the 2023 Ryder Cup, missed qualifying for the Masters by one shot in the category in which the top 12 finishers go.
His twin brother, Rasmus Hojgaard, will make his debut in April.
