2010 Michael Hill New Zealand Open PLAYER LIST The Hills, 28 - 31 January 2010
As of 19/01/2010 the following players are exempt into the field:
Category 2 Winners of the Australian Open, Australian PGA, Australian Masters & Australasian Tour OOM
Craig Parry NSW Peter Lonard NSW
Total in Category: 2 (2)
Category 2 Winners of Tier 1 Tournaments
Steve Alker NZL Alistair Presnell VIC Ewan Porter NSW
Total in Category: 3 (5)
Category 3 Top 20 players Career Money List
Peter Senior QLD Peter O'Malley NSW David Smail NZL Stephen Leaney WA Terry Price QLD
Total in Category: 5 (10)
Category 4 Sponsor Invitations
Peter Spearman Burn NZL Andrew Stewart NZL Matt Jager AUS Gary-John Hill NZL Mark Purser NZL Grant Waite NZL Richard Lee NZL Manual Villegas COL Phil Tataurangi NZL Doug Batty NZL
Total in Category: 10 (20)
Category 5 Co-Sanctioning Partner (Nationwide Tour)
Joe Affrunti USA Mark Anderson USA Jonas Blixt SWE Matthew Borchert USA Keegan Bradley USA Jeffrey Brehaut USA D.J. Brigman USA Scott Brown USA Ted Brown CAN Dan Buchner USA Andrew Buckle AUS Miguel Angel Carballo ARG Jim Carter USA Kevin Chappell USA Gary Christian ENG Gavin Coles AUS Jess Daley USA Bryan DeCorso CAN Jay Delsing USA Bubba Dickerson USA John Douma USA Ken Duke USA Scott Dunlap USA Todd Fischer USA Nick Flanagan AUS Tommy Gainey USA Jeff Gallagher USA Scott Gardner AUS Robert Gates USA Fabian Gomez ARG Jason Gore USA Scott Gutschewski USA James Hahn KOR Ty Harris USA Bob Heintz USA Mark Hensby AUS Justin Hicks USA Ryan Hietala USA Bradley Iles NZL Barrett Jarosch CAN Craig Kanada USA Skip Kendall USA J.J. Killeen USA Chris Kirk USA Kevin Kisner USA Bronson La'Cassie AUS Doug LaBelle USA Luke List USA Jamie Lovemark USA Jarrod Lyle AUS Bobby MacWhinnie USA Bob May USA Jon Mills CAN Rob Oppenheim USA Martin Piller USA Stephen Poole USA Aron Price AUS Rick Price USA Fran Quinn USA Tag Ridings USA Dave Schultz USA Patrick Sheehan USA Michael Sims BMU Nathan Smith USA Brian Smock USA Scott Stallings USA Kyle Stanley USA Brendan Steele USA Scott Sterling USA Darron Stiles USA Daniel Summerhays USA Andrew Svoboda USA Brendon Todd USA Esteban Toledo MEX Julien Trudeau CAN Brian Vranesh USA Aaron Watkins USA Casey Wittenberg USA
Total in Category: 78 (98)
Category 6 Winners of Tier 2 Tournaments
Jason Norris VIC Leigh McKechnie NSW Aaron Townsend NSW Steven Bowditch QLD Andrew Bonhomme QLD Michael Curtain VIC Andre Stolz NSW Ashley Hall VIC
Total in Category: 8 (106)
Category 8
Stephen Allan VIC
Total in Category: 1 (107)
Category 9 Top 50, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia OOM
Josh Geary NZL Michael Long WA Terry Pilkadaris WA Adam Blyth QLD Adam Bland NSW Steve Dartnall WA Paul Sheehan NSW Scott Laycock VIC Brad Kennedy QLD Craig Scott VIC Matthew Griffin VIC David McKenzie VIC Andrew Dodt QLD Anthony Brown VIC Gareth Paddison NZL Michael Wright QLD Tony Carolan QLD Kurt Barnes NSW Chris Gaunt VIC Heath Reed VIC Clint Rice TAS Timothy Wood VIC Won-Joon Lee NSW Steve Jones VIC Andrew Tschudin VIC Steve Conran NSW Ryan Haller QLD Craig Spence VIC Mahal Pearce NZL Henry Epstein QLD Peter Wilson VIC
Total in Category: 31 (138)
Category 10 Top 10, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Tier 2 Money List
Scott Arnold NSW Mike Hendry NZL
Total in Category: 2 (140)
Category 11 Top 5 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Qualifying School
Andrew Martin VIC Anthony Summers NSW Mitchell Brown NSW Jamie Arnold NSW Gary Simpson SA
Total in Category: 5 (145)
Category 12 51 – 60, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia OOM
Kim Felton WA Paul Gow NSW Matthew Millar ACT Adam Crawford QLD Michael Brennan NSW Stuart Bouvier QLD
Total in Category: 6 (151)
------Field Current Cut-Off as off 19/01/2010 ------
78 x Nationwide Tour 10 x Invitations 4 x Pre-Qualifiers 64 x Exempt players from the PGA Tour Exemption Categories (1 spot held for NZ PGA Winner) Total 156
The balance of the field will be made up of 4 pre-qualifying positions for a total field size of 156.
The Pre-Qualify field will come from the below list of players. Pre-Qualifying will be held Russley Golf Club on Monday January 25.
Paul Marantz NSW
Total in Category: 1 (1)
Category 13 11 – 25, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Tier 2 Money List
David Diaz VIC Brad McIntosh NSW Steve Collins WA Hamish Robertson NZL Marcus Cain QLD
Total in Category: 5 (6)
Category 14 6 – 35 plus those tied for 35th place 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Qualifying School
Michael McGrath VIC Daniel Fox WA Do-Eun An QLD Nicholas Piani WA Brendan Stuart NZL Steven Jeffress QLD Bradley Smith SA Edward Stedman NSW Criag Hasthorpe Vic Eddie Barr QLD Jason Pavese ACT David Bransdon VIC Jim Cusdin NZL Richie Caracella VIC Josh Carmichael NZL Rudi Bezuidenhout NSW Matt Ballard QLD Adam Stephens NSW Taylor Cooper QLD Brent McCullough NSW Chris Hartas NSW Peter Welden NSW
Total in Category: 22 (28)
Category 15 26 – 40, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Tier 2 Money List
Ben Wharton VIC Aaron Pike QLD Brad Andrews QLD Simon Furneaux NSW Kurt Carlson QLD Doug Holloway NZL
Total in Category: 6 (34)
Category 16 1 – 30 from the 2009 PGA of Australia National Ranking System
Martin Dive NSW Dale Clarke NZL Shaun Harmer QLD
Total in Category: 3 (37)
Category 18 61 –100, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia OOM
Rohan Blizard NSW Peter Nolan VIC Brad Shilton VIC Matthew Holten NZL Tom Prowse VIC
Total in Category: 5 (42)
Category 19 Leading 3 graduates from the 2009 PGA of Australia Trainee National Averages
Cody Sherratt SA
Total in Category: 1 (43)
Category 20 Top 3 highest ranked PGA of Australia Trainees (must hold a National Invite)
Troy Fuller QLD
Total in Category: 1 (44)
Category 21 Leading 3 players inside the top 10 from the 2009 New Zealand PGA Order of Merit
Troy Ropiha NZL Grant Moorhead NZL Alex Tait NZL
Total in Category: 3 (47)
Category 22 41 – 60, plus Affiliate Members 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Tier 2 Money List
Ricky Schmidt NSW Michael Choi VIC
Total in Category: 2 (49)
Category 23 31 – 60 from 2009 PGA of Australia National Ranking System
John Onions NSW Daniel Stevenson QLD Brendan Chant SA Steven Hassett NSW Corey Gerrard VIC Daniel Morrison QLD
Total in Category: 6 (55)
Category 24 36 – 60, plus those tied for 60th place 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Qualifying School
Leigh Deagan VIC Paul Spargo SA Neil Sarkies NSW
Total in Category: 3 (58)
Non-Exempt Players
Highest 9 Ranked Non-Exempt Players to be decided
Total in Category: 4 (67)
Category Amateur Entries
Chan Young Chung NZL Duncan Croudis NZL Tyler McLean NZL Thomas Spearman-Burn NZL Cameron Jones NZL Ben Wallace NZL Matt Perry NZL Jason Mann NZL Fraser Callaway NZL Aaron Leech NZL Keelan Kilpatrick NZL Cody Harper NZL Owen Burgess NZL Micah Dickinson NZL Shaun Jones NZL Tom Turner NZL Roy Hollick NZL Tom Cardno NZL Mark O’Malley NZL Vaughn McCall NZL Ben Taylor NZL Daniel Shin NZL Pieter Zwart NZL David Klien NZL Matthew MacKey NZL Nick Gillespie NZL James Betts NZL Chris Harrison NZL Andrew Namkoong NZL Sean Roach NZL Sam An NZL Nick Kay NZL Kieran Muir NZL Malcom Wells NZL Steven Bayard NZL Jeremy Hall NZL Davitt Lavery NZL Mark Speedy NZL
Total in Category: 38 (105)
Category NZPGA Members
TBC
Total in Category: 15 (120)
------Pre-Qualifying Cut-Off as off 19/01/2010 ------
Pre-Qualifying breakdown 67 x PGA Tour/Nationwide/Members of credited bodies/tours 38 x Amateurs 15 x NZ PGA Members Total 120
Non-Exempt Players
John Bae NZL Ray Beaufils QLD Mark Boe NZL Dominic Brason NZL Ho Eun Cho NZL Kevin Chun NZL Michael Craig QLD Brent Crooks Qld Anthony Doyle NZL Ben Gallie NZL Yun Seok Gang NZL James Gill NZL Andrew Green NZL Brad Heaven NZL Andrew Henare NZL Scott Hill NZL Jeffrey Hoy QLD Gi Moon Kang NZL Vashon Karaka QLD Grant Kenny NSW Shohei Kubo JPN Thomas Lannie NZL Hugo Leon USA Craig Mitchell NZL Michael Moore VIC Todd Nicholson NZL James Oh NZL Wayne Perske QLD Martin Pettigrew NZL John Price QLD Bernhard Reiter AUSTRIA Chris Renouf QLD Krishna Singh NSW Peter Smith NZL Marcus Wheelhouse NZL Ben Wolfenden QLD
Total in Category: 36