A 100 is a 100. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. Now there are a few exemptions you just wont believe still exist. Why? 18. I wonder why so many members are selling their i230's? Springfield's Jake Erickson gets sponsor exemption to Korn Ferry stop Exemptions | The 150th Open The lifetime exempt category, which comes with 20 victories, means he could enter any PGA Tour event for the rest of his life, as long as its not an invitational. Clear editor. Winning the Masters earns the champion a lifetime exemption into the field the most generous exemption in the world of golf. So even though hes number 154 on the FedEx points list at the end of the season, he can still enter any tournament he wants to, save those determined only by world rankings. Victors of the Open Championship are exempt until age 60, and the PGA Championship allows its champions to play until they are 65. Full Spectrum Services LLP 2022 | All Rights Reserved. Its not Indio that influences them. Sometimes we post sponsored content from this account, and it is labeled as such. [/quote] So, unless you can meet that quirky scoring average requirement, you -CAN NOT- use the Life Member Exemption. Like Tiger, if Phil wins at least one non-major event each year thru 2015 (end of 2010 Masters status), then Phils's unconditional status is extended one additional year for each such win. Woods and Mickelson are exempt otherwise and do not need the lifetime exemption to play on the PGA Tour. why's Mickelson listed as category 2 instead of 1 when he's won the PGA in the last 10 years? Not so! The perks of winning the Masters: Tournaments, exemptions, what the Similar to other major league sports, there is no rule limiting PGA Tour players to "men only." Any time you win at least one event in any of the five years after the year in which a Grand Slam Major or the Players is won, you get a bonus year of prime exempt status. They can never lose PGA Tour status, no matter how they play for rest of their career, from that point forward unless they resign their membership. In the very unlikely event that either one of them were to play just one PGA Tour event, make the cut, finish 72 holes and in the process meet the scoring average requirement, then they would earn Life Member Status for the next season. (In context, his acvhievements seem almost inconceivable he's already third on the list of lifetime tournament wins, and is only around the halfway point of his career). Note: only those PGA TOUR Members who finish 151-200 on 2020-21 FedExCup points list and non-members who finished 126-200 on the 2020-21 non-member FedExCup points list will be eligible for the 151-200 category on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour.