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The season’s first major is finally here.
The PGA Championship begins Thursday at TPC Harding Park.
Tiger Woods is in the field along with the world’s top rankings golfers including Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau.
The PGA of America announced John Daly and Vijay Singh withdrew Monday due to health concerns and an injury, respectively. Francesco Molinari and Padraig Harrington also withdrew from the PGA Championship due to concerns over traveling to the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Harding Park will be the first TPC course to host a major championship and the fourth municipal course to host. This year also marks the first time San Francisco has hosted a PGA Championship.
The PGA Championship field is broken down below according to each player’s ranking in the Golfweek/Sagarin and in the Official World Golf Ranking.
For the 2019-20 season, the average ranking of the winner heading into the week in which they won PGA Tour event has been 70.9 in the Golfweek/Sagarins and 98.48 in the OWGR.
| Player | Golfweek/Sagarin | OWGR |
| Rory McIlroy | 1 | 3 |
| Jon Rahm | 2 | 2 |
| Justin Thomas | 3 | 1 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 4 | 10 |
| Xander Schauffele | 5 | 11 |
| Daniel Berger | 6 | 20 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 7 | 7 |
| Tiger Woods | 8 | 15 |
| Collin Morikawa | 9 | 12 |
| Harris English | 10 | 123 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 11 | 18 |
| Abraham Ancer | 12 | 23 |
| Webb Simpson | 13 | 4 |
| Gary Woodland | 14 | 21 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 15 | 27 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 16 | 14 |
| Sungjae Im | 17 | 25 |
| Adam Hadwin | 18 | 60 |
| Tony Finau | 19 | 17 |
| Patrick Reed | 20 | 8 |
| Viktor Hovland | 21 | 31 |
| Billy Horschel | 23 | 40 |
| Dustin Johnson | 24 | 5 |
| Adam Scott | 25 | 9 |
| Mark Hubbard | 26 | 142 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 27 | 24 |
| Joel Dahmen | 28 | 69 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 29 | 13 |
| Kevin Na | 30 | 30 |
| Talor Gooch | 31 | 144 |
| Matt Kuchar | 32 | 22 |
| Sergio Garcia | 33 | 41 |
| Corey Conners | 35 | 65 |
| Jordan Spieth | 36 | 62 |
| Ian Poulter | 37 | 57 |
| Carlos Ortiz | 38 | 136 |
| Brendon Todd | 39 | 48 |
| Cameron Tringale | 41 | 176 |
| Scottie Scheffler | 42 | 59 |
| Matt Jones | 43 | 88 |
| Brian Harman | 44 | 138 |
| Brooks Koepka | 45 | 6 |
| Marc Leishman | 46 | 19 |
| Cameron Champ | 48 | 77 |
| Matthias Schwab | 49 | 79 |
| Ryan Palmer | 51 | 46 |
| Richy Werenski | 54 | 127 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 55 | 68 |
| Zach Johnson | 56 | 210 |
| J.T. Poston | 57 | 66 |
| Rory Sabbatini | 58 | 89 |
| Chez Reavie | 59 | 36 |
| Rickie Fowler | 60 | 32 |
| Max Homa | 61 | 70 |
| Brendan Steele | 62 | 104 |
| Jason Day | 63 | 42 |
| Doc Redman | 65 | 131 |
| Nick Taylor | 66 | 100 |
| Paul Casey | 67 | 28 |
| Bud Cauley | 69 | 135 |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 70 | 47 |
| Dylan Frittelli | 71 | 102 |
| Adam Long | 73 | 73 |
| Lanto Griffin | 76 | 86 |
| Phil Mickelson | 77 | 49 |
| Harold Varner III | 78 | 125 |
| Matthew Wolff | 80 | 53 |
| Henrik Stenson | 81 | 33 |
| Keegan Bradley | 82 | 75 |
| Joost Luiten | 84 | 101 |
| Denny McCarthy | 85 | 195 |
| Marcus Kinhult | 86 | 108 |
| Lucas Glover | 87 | 80 |
| Byeong Hun An | 89 | 56 |
| Shane Lowry | 90 | 26 |
| Kevin Kisner | 92 | 34 |
| Justin Rose | 96 | 16 |
| Jason Dufner | 99 | 277 |
| Brian Stuard | 100 | 140 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 102 | 64 |
| Danny Lee | 104 | 103 |
| Tyler Duncan | 105 | 167 |
| Robert MacIntyre | 107 | 81 |
| Jim Furyk | 108 | 94 |
| Sebastián Muñoz | 109 | 98 |
| Steve Stricker | 110 | 515 |
| Troy Merritt | 111 | 119 |
| Matt Wallace | 114 | 43 |
| Luke List | 117 | 122 |
| Xinjun Zhang | 118 | 120 |
| Erik van Rooyen | 119 | 44 |
| Russell Henley | 120 | 181 |
| Kevin Streelman | 124 | 45 |
| Tom Hoge | 126 | 137 |
| Bubba Watson | 127 | 63 |
| Scott Piercy | 128 | 115 |
| Mike Lorenzo-Vera | 130 | 82 |
| Kurt Kitayama | 131 | 85 |
| Danny Willett | 133 | 38 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 134 | 74 |
| Shaun Norris | 135 | 71 |
| Vaughn Taylor | 136 | 117 |
| Tom Lewis | 137 | 46 |
| Sung Kang | 144 | 61 |
| Cameron Smith | 146 | 51 |
| Si Woo Kim | 147 | 133 |
| Jason Kokrak | 149 | 67 |
| Joohyung Kim | 157 | 95 |
| Rafa Cabrera Bello | 159 | 58 |
| Graeme McDowell | 161 | 55 |
| Michael Thompson | 163 | 99 |
| Benjamin Hebert | 172 | 109 |
| Bernd Wiesberger | 178 | 29 |
| Lucas Herbert | 179 | 72 |
| Victor Perez | 181 | 50 |
| Sepp Straka | 190 | 146 |
| Andrew Landry | 195 | 112 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 196 | 187 |
| Emiliano Grillo | 201 | 132 |
| Wyndham Clark | 202 | 171 |
| Martin Kaymer | 207 | 128 |
| Jazz Janewattananond | 217 | 52 |
| Keith Mitchell | 234 | 106 |
| Chan Kim | 236 | 83 |
| Nate Lashley | 262 | 93 |
| C.T. Pan | 270 | 116 |
| Andrew Putnam | 273 | 92 |
| Jimmy Walker | 313 | 325 |
| Ryo Ishikawa | 325 | 97 |
| Haotong Li | 408 | 114 |
| Jim Herman | 422 | 320 |
| Jorge Campillo | 521 | 96 |
| Davis Love III | 679 | 900 |
| Mike Auterson | N/R | N/R |
| Danny Balin | N/R | N/R |
| Alex Beach | N/R | N/R |
| Rich Beem | N/R | N/R |
| Rich Berberian Jr. | N/R | N/R |
| Justin Bertsch | N/R | N/R |
| Jason Caron | N/R | N/R |
| Benny Cook | N/R | N/R |
| Judd Gibb | N/R | N/R |
| Jeff Hart | N/R | N/R |
| Marty Jertson | N/R | N/R |
| Zach J. Johnson | N/R | N/R |
| Alex Knoll | N/R | N/R |
| Rob Labritz | N/R | N/R |
| Shaun Micheel | N/R | N/R |
| David Muttitt | N/R | N/R |
| John O’Leary | N/R | N/R |
| Rod Perry | N/R | N/R |
| J.R. Roth | N/R | N/R |
| Bob Sowards | N/R | N/R |
| Ken Tanigawa | N/R | N/R |
| Ryan Vermeer | N/R | N/R |
| Shawn Warren | N/R | N/R |