119TH U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYERS GUIDE — Pebble Beach Golf Links | Pebble Beach, Calif. — June 13-16, 2019 conducted by the 2019 U.S. OPEN PLAYERS' GUIDE — 1 Exemption List TYSON ALEXANDER Here are the golfers who are currently exempt from qualifying for the 119th U.S. Open Championship, with their exemption categories He is 860 in this week’s Official World Golf Ranking listed. Birth Date: July 13, 1988 Player Exemption Category Player Exemption Category Birthplace: Gainesville, Fla. Byeong-Hun An 13 Shane Lowry 13 Age: 30 Ht.: 6’1 Wt.: 175 Abraham Ancer 13 Hideki Matsuyama 12, 13 Home: Gainesville, Fla. Kiradech Aphibarnrat 13 Graeme McDowell 1 College: Florida Daniel Berger 11 Rory McIlroy 1, 6, 7, 8, Lucas Bjerregaard 13 12, 13 Turned Professional: 2010 Devon Bling (a) 2 Phil Mickelson 12, 13 PGA Tour Latinoamerica Victories: Keegan Bradley 12, 13 Keith Mitchell 13 1 - 2018 Costa Rica Classic. Rafael Cabrera Bello 13 Francesco Molinari 6, 9, 12, 13 Patrick Cantlay 12, 13 Kevin Na 12, 13 Paul Casey 12, 13 Alex Noren 13 Player Notes: ELIGIBILITY - He shot 65-71 for a 136 at Jason Day 7, 12, 13 Kevin O’Connell (a) 2 Streamsong Resort in Streamsong, Fla. to earn one of the slots Bryson DeChambeau 9, 12, 13 Thorbjorn Olesen 13 as an alternate. Ernie Els 15 Louis Oosthuizen 13 Became the third generation of this family to earn a berth in a Tony Finau 11, 12, 13 Cheng-Tsung Pan 13 U.S. Open, following his father Buddy Alexander, the former Matthew Fitzpatrick 13 Scott Piercy 14 head coach at Florida, and his grandfather, Skip Alexander. Tommy Fleetwood 11, 12, 13 Ian Poulter 13 Skip played in the U.S. Open five times between 1946 and Rickie Fowler 12, 13 Andrew Putnam 14 1950, finishing as high as 11th (1948), and was a two-time Jim Furyk 13 Jon Rahm 12, 13 member of the USA Ryder Cup Team. Buddy won the U.S. Sergio Garcia 5, 13 Chez Reavie 13 Amateur in 1986 to qualify for his first U.S. Open; also quali- Lucas Glover 1 Jovan Rebula (a) 3 fied for 1994 Open at Oakmont and was a member of the win- Branden Grace 13 Patrick Reed 5, 11, 12, 13 ning 1987 USA Walker Cup Team. He coached the Florida Emiliano Grillo 14 Justin Rose 1, 11, 12, 13 Gators golf team for 27 years, winning the NCAA Division I Justin Harding 13 Xander Schauffele 9, 11, 12, 13 championships in 1993 and 2001. Tyrell Hatton 11, 13 Adam Scott 13 J.B. Holmes 13 Webb Simpson 1, 8, 11, 12, As an amateur, Alexander won the 2009 Azalea Invitational Billy Horschel 12, 13 13 and was a three-time U.S. Amateur qualifier (2004, 2007, Viktor Hovland (a) 2 Cameron Smith 12, 13 2008). He was also runner-up in the 2006 Florida Junior Cham- Charles Howell III 13 Brandt Snedeker 13 pionship and in 2005, he won the Southern Junior Champion- Zach Johnson 6 Jordan Spieth 1, 5, 6, 13 ship and the Alachua County Amateur. Alexander was named Dustin Johnson 1, 9, 11, 12, Kyle Stanley 12, 13 the Gainesville Sun Player of the Year in 2004. 13 Henrik Stenson 6, 11, 13 Martin Kaymer 1 Justin Thomas 7, 12, 13 Played college golf at the University of Florida, where he was Si Woo Kim 8, 13 M. Thorbjornsen (a) 2 a four-time SEC Academic All-American. Turned pro in 2010 Kevin Kisner 13 David Toms 10 and his first victory came in the 2012 NGA Hooters Tour Patton Kizzire 12 Jimmy Walker 7 Killearn Country Club Classic in Tallahassee, Fla. Brooks Koepka 1, 7, 9, 11, Matt Wallace 13 12, 13 Bubba Watson 12, 13 In 2014, he made his first career start on the Web.com Tour at Matt Kuchar 9, 13 Danny Willett 5 the News Sentinel Open, but missed the cut. He won the NGA Marc Leishman 12, 13 Aaron Wise 12 Hooters Tour Ocala/Marion County Classic in Florida. Haotong Li 13 Gary Woodland 12, 13 Luke List 13 Tiger Woods 5, 9, 12, 13 — Key to Player Exemptions — 1 Winners of the U.S. Open the Last 10 Years 9 Winners of multiple full-point PGA Tour events from the 2018 U.S. 2 Winners of 2018 U.S. Amateur, U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Open to the 2019 U.S. Open Mid-Amateur, and Runner-Up of the 2018 U.S. Amateur 10 Winner of the 2018 U.S. Senior Open 3 Winner of the 2018 Amateur Championship Conducted by The R&A 11 The top-10 finishers in the 2018 U.S. Open 4 Winner of the 2018 Mark H. McCormack Medal 12 Those qualifying for 2018 Tour Championship 5 Winners of the Masters Tournament the Last Five Years 13 Top 60 Point Leaders in the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 6 Winners of The Open Championship, Conducted by The R&A, the 20, 2019 Last Five Years 14 Top 60 Point Leaders in the Official World Golf Ranking as of June 7 Winners of the PGA Championship from 2014-19 10, 2019 8 Winners of the Players Championship the last three years 15 Special exemptions as selected by the USGA. 2019 U.S. OPEN PLAYERS' GUIDE — 2 TYSON ALEXANDER 2017 Notes: Earned conditional status on PGA Tour Lati- BYEONG HUN AN noamerica with a T-10th finish at the U.S. Q-School in Sebring, He is 58 in this week’s Official World Golf Ranking Fla. Played 14 events making 8 cuts. Best finish was 3rd at the Flor de Cana Open, 4 shots back of the Buttacavoli/Davan playoff. Birth Date: September 17, 1991 Finished the year 36th in the Order of Merit with earnings of Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea $28,042. He also played in the U.S. Open, missed the cut and was Age: 27 Ht.: 6’ 2 Wt.: 210 T-32nd at the Nashville Golf Open on the Web.Com Tour. Home: Orlando, Fla. 2018 Notes: Started his year on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica tour, played in 16 events making 16 cuts. Won the Costa Rica Classic College: University of California, Berkeley beating Chris Killmer and Eric Steger in a playoff. Was 7th in the Turned Professional: 2011 Order of Merit making $79,504. Played in 4 Mackenzie Tour-PGA Joined PGA Tour: 2016 Tour Canada best finish T-43rd at the Windsor Championship. At PGA Tour Playoff Record: 0-2 the end of the year made it through Web.Com Tour Q-School finishing T-125th. Joined PGA European Tour: 2013 PGA European Tour Victories: 1 - 2015 BMW PGA Championship 2019 Web.Com Tour Record Tournament Place 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Score To Par Money Challenge Tour Victories: 2014 Rolex Trophy Bahamas Great Abaco CUT 74 74 148 +4 Korean Tour Victories: 2015 Shinhan Donghae Open CC de Bogota T66 68 68 74 74 284 +1 1,729.00 Savannah Golf CUT 70 73 143 -1 Player Notes: ELIGIBILITY CODE - 13 Nashville Open CUT 72 74 146 +2 KC Golf Classic T53 74 71 73 70 288 E 1,830.60 Born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, An is the son of Ahn Jae-Hyung Knoxville Open 64 67 70 64 81 282 -2 1,386.00 and Jiao Zhimin, both of whom were table-tennis medalists in the Evans Scholars CUT 74 69 143 -1 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. An moved to the United States in BMW Charity Pro-am Cut 71 74 145 +2 December 2005 to attend the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Alexander is 175th on the Web.com Tour money list with $4,946 Bradenton, Florida, where he was also known as Ben An. In August 2009, at age 17, An became the youngest-ever winner of Tyson Alexander’s U.S. Open Record the U.S. Amateur when he defeated Ben Martin, 7 & 5, in the Place After Rounds 36-hole final at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., sur- Year 1 2 3 Finish Score To Par 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Money passing the previous year’s champion Danny Lee. He made his 2009 53 108 0 CUT 148 +8 73 75 0 0 $0.00 PGA Tour debut in March 2010 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, 2017 29 92 0 CUT 148 +4 71 77 0 0 $10,000.00 a week before playing in the Masters. An made the cut at the 2010 Alexander’s U.S. Open Stats: RBC Heritage and was one shot off the lead during the second ¢ U.S. Opens Played:........................... 2 ¢ Top 25 Finishes:................................0 round before finishing the tournament T-59th. At the 2010 U.S. ¢ Rounds Played: ................................ 4 ¢ Rounds In 60s:..................................0 ¢ Times Finished 72 Holes:................... 0 ¢ Rounds Under Par:.............................1 Amateur at Chambers Bay, An became the first defending cham- ¢ Scoring Average:.............................74 ¢ Rounds At Par:..................................1 pion to advance to the semifinals since Tiger Woods in 1996. After ¢ Relation To Par: ...............................12 ¢ Rounds Over Par:...............................2 An took a 3-up lead after nine holes, his opponent, David Chung, ¢ Top 3 Finishes:................................. 0 ¢ Lowest U.S. Open Score:.................71 ¢ Top 5 Finishes:................................. 0 ¢ Highest U.S. Open Score:.................77 rallied to win, 1-up. He also played in the 2011 U.S. Amateur at ¢ Top 10 Finishes: ............................... 0 Erin Hills, but withdrew after the first round of stroke play. When An turned professional in 2011, he followed a piece of ad- Tyson Alexander’s U.S. Open Statistics vice from Wally Uihlein, Titleist’s Chief Executive, to play in Fairways Greens Putts Europe and earned a spot on the Challenge Tour via qualifying Year Place Hit Rank Distance Rank Hit Rank per Rd.