While the PGA Championship is still visible in the rearview mirror, the next men’s major championship is quickly approaching on the horizon.
On Monday morning the USGA announced 33 players who have earned exemptions into the 2023 US Open, June 15-18, at Los Angeles Country Club, bringing the current tally of exempt players to 84.
Exemptions were awarded to 25 players via their top-60 placement in the Official World Golf Ranking, including Jason Day and LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed. Tyrrell Hatton, No. 18 in the world, was the highest-ranked player who wasn’t previously exempt. After a T-4 at the PGA Championship, Cameron Davis jumped 19 spots to No. 49 and will compete in his first US Open.
Eight other players earned exemptions via three additional categories, including the top five players not already exempt in the current PGA Tour FedEx Cup standings (Hayden Buckley, Mackenzie Hughes, Taylor Montgomery, Andrew Putnam and Nick Taylor) as well as the top two players not already exempt from the 2022 DP World Tour Final Points List (Thriston Lawrence and Jordan Smith). Min Woo Lee joins the field as the highest-ranked player on the current Race to Dubai Rankings who is not otherwise exempt.
Three-time US Open champion Tiger Woods withdrew as an exempt player as he recovers from a recent surgery.
Ten past US Open champions are in the field, including defending champion Jon Rahm, 2023 PGA champion Brooks Koepka and world No. 3 Rory McIlroy. Eleven LIV golfers have also qualified, including fellow past champions Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Martin Kaymer, as well as Phil Mickelson, Cameron Smith, Joaquin Niemann, Abraham Ancer, Thomas Pieters, Mito Pereira and Reed.
Here’s the full list of the 84 golfers who are fully exempt into the 2023 US Open (as of Monday, May 22):
Players still have a few chances to gain access to the US Open.
The top two point earners in the four-event 2023 DP World Tour US Open Qualifying Series (DS Automobiles Italian Open, Soudal Open, KLM Open and Porsche European Open), will earn spots, as will the winner of the NCAA Div. I Men’s Golf Championship (May 26-31) and any multiple winners of full-point PGA Tour events. Golfers may also play their way into the top 60 of the OWGR before Monday, June 12, or via open qualifying.
The first of 10 final US qualifiers begins Monday, May 22, in Dallas, while Japan finished its qualifier earlier in the day. England completed its 36-hole international qualifier May 16. The other 36-hole final qualifiers in the US will be held at 10 additional sites beginning June 5.
Story originally appeared on GolfWeek