2017 ISPS HANDA New Zealand Open Millbrook Resort & The Hills 9-12 March 2017 Final Field List as at 6/3/17 @ 5.00pm Exemption Category: Cat 1: Winners OOM, Open, PGA, Masters 1 Matthew Griffin VIC 2 Nathan Holman VIC 3 Nick Cullen SA 4 Daniel Popovic VIC Exemption Category: Cat 2: Winners other Tier 1 Tournaments 5 Dimitrios Papadatos NSW 6 Adam Blyth QLD 7 Jordan Zunic NSW 8 Steven Jeffress NSW Exemption Category: Cat 3: 2-30 2016 OOM 9 Ashley Hall VIC 10 Andrew Dodt QLD 11 Matthew Giles NSW 12 Anthony Houston VIC 13 Andrew Evans NSW 14 Rhein Gibson NSW 15 Stephen Leaney WA 16 Brad Shilton NZL 17 Michael Sim WA 18 Matthew Millar ACT 19 Jarryd Felton WA 20 Jake Higginbottom NSW 21 Deyen Lawson VIC 22 Michael Long NZL 23 Ben Eccles VIC 24 Rory Bourke VIC 25 Max McCardle SA 26 Jake McLeod QLD 27 Tim Hart QLD 28 Daniel Fox WA Exemption Category: Cat 4: Tournament Invites 29 Sam An NZL 30 Grant Waite NZL 31 Shaun Jones NZL 32 Heath Slocum USA 33 Craig Palmer NZL 34 Peter Smith NZL 35 Hong Soon Sang KOR 36 Byungjun Kim KOR 37 Dongmin Lee KOR 38 Jin-ho Choi KOR 39 Danny Masrin IDN 40 Ryan Fox NZL 41 SJ Park KOR 42 Richard Green VIC 43 Ryan Lynch VIC Exemption Category: Cat 5: Discretionary / Top 100 OWGR 44 Song Young-Han KOR Exemption Category: Cat 6: Leading 6 from 2016 PGA of NZ OOM 45 Kieran Muir NZL 46 Nick Gillespie NZL 47 Daniel Pearce NZL 48 Pieter Zwart NZL 49 Troy Ropiha NZL 50 Dominic Barson NZL Exemption Category: Cat 6: NZ Golf exemptions 51 Luke Toomey NZL 52 Jim Cusdin NZL 53 Louis Dobbelaar (am) QLD 54 Ryan Chisnall (am) NZL Exemption Category: Cat 6: JGTO players 55 Michael Hendry NZL 56 Kurt Barnes NSW 57 Brendan Jones ACT 58 Brad Kennedy QLD 59 Adam Bland SA 60 Mikumu Horikawa JPN 61 Ryutaro Nagano JPN 62 Yusaku Miyazato JPN 63 Hyun-woo Ryu KOR 64 Hyung-Sung Kim KOR 65 Shintaro Kobayashi JPN 66 Shunsuke Sonoda JPN 67 Yoshitaka Takeya JPN 68 IJ Jang KOR 69 Akio Sadakata JPN 70 Naoto Takayanagi JPN 71 Tatsuya Kodai JPN 72 Tomohiro Umeyama JPN 73 Tomohiro Koike JPN 74 Toshinori Muto JPN 75 Jung-Gon Hwang KOR 76 Min-Gyu Cho KOR 77 Sung-Jae Im KOR Exemption Category: Cat 6: Asian Tour exemptions 78 Y.E. Yang KOR 79 Scott Barr NSW 80 Steve Lewton ENG 81 Simon Griffiths ENG 82 Adam Groom NSW 83 Nick Paez USA 84 Kevin Techakanokboon THA 85 Brett Munson USA 86 Gunn Charoenkul THA 87 Dodge Kemmer USA Exemption Category: Cat 7: Winners of Tier 2 Tournaments 88 Damien Jordan QLD 89 Brett Coletta VIC 90 Stephen Dartnall WA 91 Brad Moules SA 92 David Klein GER 93 David Bransdon VIC 94 James Nitties NSW 95 Aaron Townsend NSW Exemption Category: Cat 7(a): Winner Q-School 96 Taylor Macdonald QLD Exemption Category: Cat 8: 1-20 Career Money List 97 Peter Lonard NSW 98 Peter O'Malley NSW 99 Peter Fowler NSW 100 David Smail NZL Exemption Category: Cat 9: 31-50 2016 OOM 101 Lucas Herbert VIC 102 Josh Geary NZL 103 Jason Norris SA 104 Jack Wilson VIC 105 Aaron Wilkin QLD 106 Nathan Green NSW 107 Neven Basic NSW 108 Ben Campbell NZL 109 Michael Wright QLD 110 Mark Brown NZL Exemption Category: Cat 10: 2-5 Q-School 111 Andrew Martin VIC 112 Josh Younger VIC 113 Christopher Wood QLD 114 Josh Cabban NSW Exemption Category: Cat 11: 51-60 2016 OOM 115 Ryan Haller QLD 116 Gareth Paddison NZL 117 Aaron Pike QLD 118 Chris Gaunt VIC 119 Lindsay Wilson NSW 120 Mitchell A. Brown NSW 121 Daniel Nisbet QLD 122 Paul Spargo SA Exemption Category: Cat 12: Tier 2 Money List 123 Darren Beck NSW 124 Kristopher Mueck VIC 125 Dale Brandt-Richards NSW 126 Antonio Murdaca SA 127 Callan O'Reilly NSW 128 Tom Power Horan VIC Exemption Category: Cat 13: 6-40 Q-School 129 David McKenzie VIC 130 Michael Choi VIC 131 Lincoln Tighe NSW 132 Matthew Stieger NSW 133 James Marchesani VIC 134 Matthew Guyatt QLD 135 Peter Cooke SA 136 Rick Kulacz WA 137 Geoff Drakeford VIC 138 Daniel Valente VIC 139 Benjamin Clementson NSW 140 Cory Crawford QLD 141 Troy Moses NSW 142 Peter Wilson VIC Top 2 from previous sole-sancioned PGATA event (2017 Lawnmaster Horizon Golf NZ PGA Championship) 143 Harry Bateman NZL 144 Anthony Quayle QLD Pre-Qualifying 145 Adam Burdett VIC 146 Dale Williamson NSW 147 Tae Koh NZL 148 Mathew McLean (am) NZL 149 Sam Lee FJI 150 Kevin Koong (am) NZL Alternates 1 Chris Akers 2 Karl Knedler (am) 3 Woonchul Na 4 Jack Williams 5 Alex Edge 6 James Hydes (am).