2015 Emirates Australian Open FINAL PLAYER LIST (Last updated 21/11/15 @ 9am)
FIELD SIZE 156 PLAYERS
(1) Any former champion of the tournament in the past 5 years
1 Jordan SPIETH USA 2 Greg CHALMERS AUS 3 Peter SENIOR AUS 4 Geoff OGILVY AUS
(2) Leading 10 Asia-Pacific players from the OWGR as at close of entries (capped to 250th position)
5 Adam SCOTT AUS 6 Marc LEISHMAN AUS 7 Steven BOWDITCH AUS 8 Matthew JONES AUS 9 John SENDEN AUS 10 Cameron SMITH AUS 11 Ryan FOX NZL 12 Marcus FRASER AUS 13 Richard GREEN AUS 14 Andrew DODT AUS
(3) Leading 75 players from OneAsia categories
3a) Winner of any OneAsia Order of Merit (3 year exemption) 1 15 Matthew GRIFFIN AUS
4) Winner of any OneAsia Tournament (2 years) and Qualifying School (1year) 2 16 Jinho CHOI KOR 3 17 Gavin FLINT AUS 4 18 Ryan DILLON USA 5 19 Steven JEFFRESS AUS
6) Top 50 of 2014 OneAsia Order of Merit 6 20 Jun Seok LEE AUS 7 21 Jake HIGGINBOTTOM AUS 8 22 Rhein GIBSON AUS 9 23 Terry PILKADARIS AUS 10 24 Michael SIM AUS 11 25 David BRANSDON AUS 12 26 Scott STRANGE AUS 13 27 Michael HENDRY NZL 14 28 Mark BROWN NZL 15 29 Stephen DARTNALL AUS 16 30 Garrett SAPP USA 17 31 Nathan HOLMAN AUS 18 32 Jason SCRIVENER AUS 19 33 Nick GILLESPIE NZL 20 34 Michael WRIGHT AUS 21 35 David MCKENZIE AUS 22 36 Aaron TOWNSEND AUS 23 37 Josh YOUNGER AUS 24 38 Nick CULLEN AUS 25 39 Hyowon PARK KOR 26 40 Ryan HALLER AUS 27 41 Gareth PADDISON NZL
7a) 2nd & 3rd positions at OneAsia Qualifying School Final Stages 28 42 Ryan CARTER USA 29 43 Yeongsu KIM KOR
8a) Leading players from PGA Tour of Australasia Tournament Exemption Categories (capped at Cat. 12 of the 2015 Categories) (15 positions) 30 44 Winner 2015 UNIQLO Masters 31 45 Daniel POPOVIC AUS 32 46 Stuart APPLEBY AUS 33 47 Jordan ZUNIC AUS 34 48 Dimitrios PAPADATOS AUS 35 49 Rod PAMPLING AUS 36 50 Brett RUMFORD AUS 37 51 Wade ORMSBY AUS 38 52 James NITTIES AUS 39 53 Robert ALLENBY AUS 40 54 Craig PARRY AUS 41 55 Peter LONARD AUS 42 56 Peter O'MALLEY AUS 43 57 Nick O'HERN AUS 44 58 Peter FOWLER AUS
8b) Leading players from China Golf Tour Exemption Rankings (capped at CGA rank no. 100) (15 positions) 45 59 LIU Yan-wei CHN 46 60 LI Xin-yang CHN 47 61 ZHU Wei-yu CHN 48 62 YUAN Zhou-huan (AM) CHN 49 63 ZHANG Jin CHN
8c) Leading players from Korea Golf Tour Exemption Rankings (capped at Seed Priority 125) (15 positions) 50 64 Joonwoo CHOI KOR 51 65 Yoonho BAE KOR
8d) Asean PGA Tour (Capped at position 25) (5 positions) 52 66 Supravee PHATAM THA
9a) Position 4-10 at 2015 OneAsia Qualifying School Final Stage 53 67 Dino GIACOMAZZI Jr. USA 54 68 Alexander KANG USA 55 69 Vincent COVELLO USA 56 70 Corey HALE AUS 57 71 Hamza AMIN PAK 58 72 Michael CHOI AUS 59 73 LIU Yen-hung TPE 60 74 Thane RINGLER USA
10a) Next leading 20 players from PGA Tour of Australasia Exemption Categories (capped at Cat. 12 of the 2015 Categories)
61 75 Stephen LEANEY AUS OA PGATA (1) 62 76 Lee WESTWOOD ENG OA PGATA (2) 63 77 Mathew GOGGIN AUS OA PGATA (3) 64 78 Daniel FOX AUS OA PGATA (4) 65 79 Ben ECCLES AUS OA PGATA (5) 66 80 Matthew MILLAR AUS OA PGATA (6) 67 81 Lincoln TIGHE AUS OA PGATA (7) 68 82 Anthony BROWN AUS OA PGATA (8) 69 83 Ryan LYNCH AUS OA PGATA (9) 70 84 Adam STEPHENS AUS OA PGATA (10) 71 85 Anthony SUMMERS AUS OA PGATA (11) 72 86 Edward STEDMAN AUS OA PGATA (12) 73 87 David KLEIN GER OA PGATA (13) 74 88 Aron PRICE AUS OA PGATA (14) 75 89 Matthew GILES AUS OA PGATA (15)
(4) Any former Major Champion under the age of 65 (as at 26/11/15)
90 Darren CLARKE NIR
(5) 10 Tournament Invitations
91 Brett JONES AUS 92 Oliver GOSS AUS 93 George MCNEILL USA 94 Cheng-Tsung PAN TPE 95 Daniel CHOPRA SWE 96 Jarrod LYLE AUS 97 Stephen ALLAN AUS 98 Peter UIHLEIN USA 99 Nicolas COLSAERTS BEL 100 Antonio MURDACA AUS
(6) 30 local exemptions as agreed between Golf Australia and PGA of Australia 101 Daniel NISBET AUS 102 Nathan GREEN AUS 103 Rohan BLIZARD AUS 104 Matthew GUYATT AUS 105 Ashley HALL AUS 106 Peter COOKE AUS 107 Josh GEARY NZL 108 Jason NORRIS AUS 109 Tom BOND AUS 110 Adam BLYTH AUS 111 Andrew MARTIN AUS 112 Anthony HOUSTON AUS 113 Alistair PRESNELL AUS 114 Kristopher MUCK AUS 115 Scott ARNOLD AUS 116 Ryan RUFFELS (AM) AUS 117 Brett COLLETTA (AM) AUS 118 Chun-An YU (AM) TPE 119 Bryson DECHAMBEAU (AM) USA 120 Jordan NIEBRUGGE (AM) USA 121 Takumi KANAYA (AM) JPN 122 Zach MURRAY (AM) AUS 123 TBA Pre-Qualifying 124 TBA Pre-Qualifying 125 TBA Pre-Qualifying 126 TBA Pre-Qualifying 127 TBA Pre-Qualifying 128 TBA Pre-Qualifying 129 TBA Pre-Qualifying 130 TBA Pre-Qualifying
Residual positions to players not otherwise exempt from the OneAsia Categories until cat 8 a) and b) have been exhausted. After which, residual positions will be shared with players from the PGA Tour of Australasia Exemption Categories Alternating PGATA and OneAsia 131 Aaron PIKE AUS 132 Harry BATEMAN NZL OA PGATA (16) 133 Daniel VALENTE AUS 134 Todd SINNOTT AUS OA PGATA (17) 135 Brad SHILTON NZL 136 Michael LONG NZL OA PGATA (18) 137 Aaron WILKIN AUS 138 Max MCCARDLE AUS OA PGATA (19) 139 Jamie HOOK AUS 140 Brett RANKIN AUS OA PGATA (20) 141 Michael MOORE AUS 142 Rory HIE INA OA 51-100 OOM 143 Jake STIRLING AUS 144 Callan O'REILLY AUS OA 51-100 OOM 145 Daniel PEARCE NZL 146 Matt JAGER AUS OA 51-100 OOM 147 Leigh MCKECHNIE AUS 148 Zack BYRD USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 149 Ben WHARTON AUS 150 Seungsu HAN USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 151 Charles WRIGHT AUS 152 Kyuha SIM AUS OA 11-30 Q-SCL 153 Paul HAYDEN AUS 154 Sam CHIEN USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 155 Neven BASIC AUS 156 Jongbeom JUNG KOR OA 11-30 Q-SCL
OneAsia Alternates (to replace OneAsia withdrawals) 1 Sean MCNAMARA USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 2 Kyle SOUZA USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 3 Mark BAKER USA OA 11-30 Q-SCL 4 Corry WEBSTER CAN OA 11-30 Q-SCL 5 Jinoh SONG KOR OA 11-30 Q-SCL 6 Nabil ABDUL AUS OA 11-30 Q-SCL 7 Sunghyuk PARK KOR OA 11-30 Q-SCL 8 Sam YI USA OA 101-106 OOM 9 J.K JUNG KOR OA Q-SCL 31+ 10 Tim HART AUS OA Q-SCL 31+ 11 Luke WHITBREAD AUS OA Q-SCL 31+ 12 Ryan ACOSTA USA OA Q-SCL 31+ 13 Scott JANUS USA OA Q-SCL 31+
PGA Tour of Australasia Alternates (to replace PGATA withdrawals) 1 Timothy WOOD AUS Cat 11 2 Rory BOURKE AUS Cat 11 3 Jack WILSON AUS Cat 11 4 Geoff DRAKEFORD AUS Cat 12 5 Kieran MUIR NZL Cat 12 6 Peter WILSON AUS Cat 12 7 Adam CRAWFORD AUS Cat 12 8 (Stephen ALLAN) AUS Cat 12 9 Blake McGRORY AUS Cat 13 10 Jared PENDER NZL Cat 13 11 Chris GAUNT AUS Cat 13 12 Marcus CAIN AUS Cat 13 13 Samuel EAVES AUS Cat 13 14 Tim HART AUS Cat 13 15 Troy COX AUS Cat 13 16 Mitchell A. BROWN AUS Cat 13 17 Josh CABBAN AUS Cat 14 18 Matthew STIEGER AUS Cat 14 19 Luke HUMPHRIES AUS Cat 14 20 Daniel MCGRAW AUS Cat 14 21 R.J. CARACELLA AUS Cat 14 22 Christopher WOOD AUS Cat 14 23 Sam LEE FJI Cat 14 24 Daniel HOEVE AUS Cat 14 25 Mitchell BROWN AUS Cat 14 26 Damien JORDAN AUS Cat 14 27 Benjamin CLEMENTSON AUS Cat 14 28 David LUTTERUS AUS Cat 14 29 Craig SCOTT AUS Cat 14 30 Hayden BEARD NZL Cat 14 31 Darren BECK AUS Cat 14 32 Christopher THORN AUS Cat 14 33 Andrew CAMPBELL AUS Cat 14 34 Jonothan HOLDER AUS Cat 14 35 Douglas HOLLOWAY NZL Cat 15 36 Martin PETTIGREW NZL Cat 15 37 Dyan HIGGINS AUS Cat 16 38 Clayton BRIDGES AUS Cat 16 39 Jordan MULLANEY AUS Cat 16 40 Deyen LAWSON AUS Cat 17 41 Taylor COOPER AUS Cat 17