Fifteen additional players have earned full exemptions into the 2010 US Open Championship, to be played June 17-20 at Pebble Beach in California bringing the number of fully exempt players to 78.
The exemptions were awarded to players who met one or more of the following criteria, as of May 24: top-50 on the Official World Golf Ranking; top-10 money leaders from the official 2010 US PGA Tour money list; and top-five money leaders from the official 2010 European Tour money list.
Those who earned full exemptions through the current World Golf Ranking were: Robert Allenby, K.J. Choi, Ben Crane, Peter Hanson, Thongchai Jaidee, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Robert Karlsson, Anthony Kim, Graeme McDowell, Edoardo Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Alvaro Quiros, Charl Schwartzel, Adam Scott and Camilo Villegas. The remaining 35 of the Top 50 ranked players were already fully exempt through other criteria.
Allenby, Kim and Villegas also became fully exempt by ranking among the year’s top-10 money leaders on the US PGA Tour, as of May 24. The rest of the top-10 money leaders were already fully exempt.
Schwartzel was additionally exempt because he was among the top-five money leaders on The European Tour for 2010 as of May 24.
Additional exemptions from sectional qualifying could be earned by a winner of one of the three US PGA Tour events to be played prior to the U.S. Open, if the winner is not already fully exempt and it is his second PGA Tour win since June 21, 2009.
The first two sectional qualifiers were held May 24 in Japan and England, where a total of 15 spots in the 156-player field were determined. Sectional qualifying in the USA will take place at 13 sites on June 7.
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