2020 PGA Championship field

This page lists the criteria used to determine the field for the 2020 PGA Championship, the first of the men's major golf championships in 2020, and the players who qualified via them. Some criteria were amended after the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Entrants by eligibility criteria.
Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.
1. Former winners of the PGA Championship.
All former winners of the PGA Championship:
2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament.
Winners of the last five Masters Tournaments:
3. Recent winners of the U.S. Open.
Winners of the last five U.S. Open Championships:
4. Recent winners of The Open Championship.
Winners of the last five Open Championships:
5. Recent winners of The Players Championship.
Winners of the last three Players Championships:
6. Winner of the Senior PGA Championship in 2019.
Winner of the 2019 Senior PGA Championship:
7. Leading finishers in the previous PGA Championship.
Top 15 and ties in the 2019 PGA Championship:
8. Leading PGA professionals.
Top 20 in the 2019 PGA Professional Player of the Year Standings:
9. Leading money winners on the PGA Tour.
Top 70 in the PGA Championship Points standings (based on official PGA Tour money earned, calculated from the 2019 AT&T Byron Nelson to the 2020 3M Open):
10. Playing members of the Ryder Cup teams in 2018.
Playing members of the United States and European 2018 Ryder Cup teams ranked within the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 27, 2020:
11. Tournaments winners on the PGA Tour.
Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2019 PGA Championship:
12. PGA of America invitees not included in the categories above.
PGA of America invitees not included in the categories above:
13. Leading money winners on the PGA Tour (additional).
Players outside the top 70 in PGA Championship Points (per category 9) to complete the field:
Alternates.
Alternates (per category 13):