Below are RotoWire's 2026 fantasy golf rankings, which are ordered by projected earnings over the course of the season.
The list is not limited to those with a PGA Tour card, and golfers without one are noted as such.
- The top 100 finishers in the FedExCup Standings
- Conditional Status Players who finished 101-125 in the Standings (C)
- Notable Exempt Players not in the top 100 (E)
- Non-Rookie Korn Ferry Tour Graduates (K)
- Rookie Korn Ferry Tour Graduates (R)
- DP World Tour Graduates (D)
- Players now part of LIV Golf (L)
- Players gaining status via PGA Tour Q-School (Q)
- No status for 2026 (N)
| Rank | Golfer Name | Age | 2025 Events | 2025 Earnings | 2026 Projected | Outlook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | 29 | 21 | $27,659,550 | $22,000,000 | Scheffler is coming off another incredible season. Things got off to a rocky start as he missed the first month due to a hand injury his suffered while cooking on Christmas. He had some strong showings in his first few weeks back, but would not return in the win column until early May at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson. There was no looking back after that, however, as Scheffler would add victories at the PGA Championship, the Memorial Tournament, The Open Championship and the BMW Championship before adding a fall victory at the Procore Championship for good measure. Scheffler now has run up his major tally to four and his PGA Tour wins tally to 19. He has made at least $21 million each of the last three seasons |
Below are RotoWire's 2026 fantasy golf rankings, which are ordered by projected earnings over the course of the season.
The list is not limited to those with a PGA Tour card, and golfers without one are noted as such.
- The top 100 finishers in the FedExCup Standings
- Conditional Status Players who finished 101-125 in the Standings (C)
- Notable Exempt Players not in the top 100 (E)
- Non-Rookie Korn Ferry Tour Graduates (K)
- Rookie Korn Ferry Tour Graduates (R)
- DP World Tour Graduates (D)
- Players now part of LIV Golf (L)
- Players gaining status via PGA Tour Q-School (Q)
- No status for 2026 (N)
| Rank | Golfer Name | Age | 2025 Events | 2025 Earnings | 2026 Projected | Outlook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | 29 | 21 | $27,659,550 | $22,000,000 | Scheffler is coming off another incredible season. Things got off to a rocky start as he missed the first month due to a hand injury his suffered while cooking on Christmas. He had some strong showings in his first few weeks back, but would not return in the win column until early May at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson. There was no looking back after that, however, as Scheffler would add victories at the PGA Championship, the Memorial Tournament, The Open Championship and the BMW Championship before adding a fall victory at the Procore Championship for good measure. Scheffler now has run up his major tally to four and his PGA Tour wins tally to 19. He has made at least $21 million each of the last three seasons in official earnings. No other player has made more than $19 million in that same time span. Scheffler is the undisputed best player in golf and it's not particularly close. Anything less than a 5+ win campaign with a major would probably be a disappointment to Scheffler. |
| 2 | Rory McIlroy | 36 | 17 | $16,992,418 | $16,000,000 | If not for how Scottie Scheffler closed the 2025 season, McIlroy would have been the obvious choice for Player of the Year. He came out of the gates firing winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, then winning THE PLAYERS Championship for a second time and then finally completing the Career Grand Slam with that long awaited first win at The Masters. Not only was his Masters win historic, but it was also his first major championship of any kind since the 2014 PGA Championship. McIlroy had so many close calls in those 11 years and an abundance of scar tissue. Now at age 36 and having accomplished basically everything one can in the game of golf, the hope is that he is freed up to continue to run up his PGA Tour and major championship win totals that sit at 29 and 5, respectively. What maybe doesn't get talked about enough is the fact that 2025 was the best putting season of McIlroy's career, and if that continues into 2026 he is going to be racking up top finishes. |
| 3 | Tommy Fleetwood | 34 | 20 | $18,496,238 | $14,000,000 | It's hard to believe it took 164 starts for Fleetwood to win on the PGA Tour, but he certainly picked a pretty good week to do it. After coming so close at the first two legs of the FedExCup Playoffs, Fleetwood would not be denied at the TOUR Championship. He turned in the best putting week of his career to win the 2025 FedExCup. That has to be such a huge weight off the Englishman's back and could potentially open the floodgates to many more wins over the coming years, and maybe even a major championship. Fleetwood also cleaned up in the fall on the DP World Tour winning in India, finishing runner-up in Abu Dhabi and closing it out T3 in Dubai. Fleetwood will turn 35 in 2026, and given the makeup of his game, it's hard to see him falling off anytime soon. Another $18 million season is probably asking a lot, but he has to be one of the top fantasy picks in any format next season. |
| 4 | Xander Schauffele | 32 | 17 | $4,839,866 | $12,000,000 | After an a historic season on the PGA Tour in 2024 that included two major championship victories, 2025 was the most frustrating of Schauffele's career. He was not healhty going into the season after suffering a rib injury in the weeks leading up to the season-opening tournament at Kapalua. He tried to grind it out at The Sentry, but then would take two months off to try and let the injury heal. Schauffele was unable to do as much practice as he normally would, and it led to certain parts of his game being noticeably off. The 32-year-old was extremely wild off the tee, which put him in poor positions to attack pins. While Schauffele's iron play was actually pretty strong, he was outside the top 130 in scrambling and SG: Putting, two areas that have been so reliable for him in recent years. Now fully healthy, there's no reason to not expect a big bounce-back season for the 10-time PGA Tour winner, especially considering that he finished off his 2025 by winning the Baycurrent Classic in Japan. |
| 5 | Russell Henley | 36 | 20 | $14,707,570 | $10,500,000 | Henley had the best season of his career in 2025. He picked up his fifth career win on the PGA Tour at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which was one of 10 top-10 finishes for the Georgia alum. Henley has such a high floor given the makeup of his game. He's one of the most accurate drivers on Tour, an extremely precise iron player and has a world class short game. If Henley gets things rolling on the greens, which he did on a lot of occassions in 2025, he's going to be in the mix come Sunday more often than not. Henley did miss the cut in two of the four majors last season, however, so that will certainly be an area he will be focused on rectifying. At age 36, Henley still has time to add a major championship win to his resume. Who knows maybe that comes in 2026. |
| 6 | Ludvig Aberg | 26 | 21 | $8,276,973 | $10,000,000 | Expectations were very high for Aberg after his stellar 2024 where he collected nine top-10 finishes and ranked seventh on the PGA Tour in SG: Total. After an early victory at The Genesis Invitational, it looked like the progression was going into continue. Unfortunately, he took a step back with just one top-10 finish over his next 11 starts. Aberg rallied at the end of the year with much more consistent play, but he'd probably say he expects better going into 2026. The Swede was outside the top 40 in SG: Total in 2025 on the PGA Tour. Still just 26 years of age, when Aberg's swing is dialed in it's a beautiful thing to watch. Expect him to return to being amongst the top players in the world in 2026, and a threat to win The Masters where he's finished 2nd and 7th in his two career starts. |
| 7 | Patrick Cantlay | 33 | 21 | $9,441,931 | $9,500,000 | Cantlay had another very solid season in 2025, but it was also the third consective campaign he failed to put a check in the win column. Cantlay certainly came close a number of times with four top-5s and nine top-15s, most notably at the TOUR Championship when he finished T2. That great showing at East Lake and the $4.35 million he made accounted for nearly half his season total in earnings. Cantlay remains one of the safest fantasy options given the fact that he has made more than $9 million in three of the last four seasons. He's still just 33 years of age and has plenty of victories left in the tank, but it feels like he just needs to see career PGA Tour win No. 9 to really establish some of that confidence of old back. Cantlay gained strokes across the board again in 2025 and had one of the best approach seasons of his career. An early win in 2026 could set him up for a big season. |
| 8 | Collin Morikawa | 28 | 22 | $7,915,347 | $9,000,000 | There are a lot of players who would have loved to have the 2025 that Morikawa had, but it was not good enough for this two-time major champion. After a great start to 2025 with six straight finishes of T17-or-better, including a pair of runner-ups, Morikawa would log just one more top-10 finish the rest of the season. The putter was a major problem once again, which was a suprise after the best SG: Putting season of his career in 2024. Morikawa was also top 10 in both SG: Around-the-Green and scrambling, but those fell outside the top 80 in 2025. The iron play was still as good as ever at third in SG: Approach, however. The larger problem for Morikawa is the fact that he hasn't won at the same clip he did early in his career. Outiside of a fall win in 2023, his last regular season victory on the PGA Tour was his Open Championship win back in 2021. Morikawa's upside is as high as anyone, but it'll be hard to finish amongst the top earners on the PGA Tour if he can't clear that mental barrier and get back in the win column. |
| 9 | Sam Burns | 29 | 26 | $6,801,982 | $8,700,000 | Burns had a lights out season with the putter in 2025. He gained nearly a full shot per round on the greens, easily good enough to top the PGA Tour. While he didn't parlay that into a victory, Burns did rack up six top-10s and 13 top-25s on the year. He will feel like one got away from him at the U.S. Open where he held the lead on the back-nine and stumbled coming down the stretch. A big area of focus for Burns going into 2026 has to be his iron play. Outside the top 120 in SG: Approach just isn't going to get it done, and it also puts an immense amount of pressure on his putter. That said, the iron play did trend back in the right direction the second half of the season. Burns is still just 29-years-old and has a lot of upside. He also plays more than a lot of the top players, which is why he made the second-most birdies on Tour in 2025. |
| 10 | Viktor Hovland | 28 | 19 | $5,824,239 | $8,500,000 | Hovland had a tough start to the year in 2025, but then virtually out of nowhere went to the Valspar Championship and had one of the best putting weeks of his career en route to victory. It sparked a much better looking second half of the year in which he looked like one of the best ball strikers on the PGA Tour again. Hovland would finish the season second to only Scottie Scheffler in SG: Approach, gaining nearly a full shot per round. The short game remained a major issue, but thankfully it wasn't as horrid as it was in 2024 when he ranked 180th in SG: Around-the-Green. Hovland is a constant tinkerer, and that's big reason as to why he's fallen off a bit after his FedExCup winning season in 2023. The good news is that the swing seems to be in a good place, but the short game and putting need to be better if he is to reclaim his spot amongst golf's elite. |
| 11 | Robert MacIntyre | 29 | 24 | $8,467,191 | $8,200,000 | While his 2025 season wasn't as memorable as his 2024 campaign when he won twice on the PGA Tour, statistically he was actually better this past year. MacIntyre ranked inside the top 15 in both SG: Total and adjusted scoring average. His approach play took big strides in 2025 and really completed the only weakness that was in his game. Not many players on Tour can say they rank inside the top 60 in all strokes gained categories. MacIntyre was truly a few shots here and there in 2025 from it being another huge season. He finished second at both the U.S. Open and BMW Championship, which were two of his 11 top-20s on the PGA Tour. The Scot also added another home victory on the DP World Tour at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in the fall. Still just 29 years of age, MacIntyre has a lot of strong years ahead of him, and potentially a major in his future. |
| 12 | Cameron Young | 28 | 26 | $8,789,813 | $8,000,000 | It was a very slow start to 2025 for Young, but he turned himself into one of the top Americans in the second half of the year. Young racked up eight top-12 finishes after the start of May, which included getting that elusive first PGA Tour victory at the Wyndham Championship. That confidence stayed with him throughout the FedExCup Playoffs and into the Ryder Cup where he was one of the bright spots for the U.S. Team. The talent has been apparent ever since the 28-year-old came on Tour back in 2022. It seems like Young was finally able to put his whole game together, as he consistently gained strokes across the board after that breakthrough win. The upside is very high here, but we probably need to see a longer stretch of consistent iron play before Young can enter the conversation amongst the fantasy golf elites. The driving and putting combination remains one of the most lethal on Tour, however. |
| 13 | Ben Griffin | 29 | 30 | $11,724,352 | $7,800,000 | Griffin was one of the biggest breakout stars in 2025. He won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event alongside Andrew Novak and then won the Charles Schwab Challenge for his first individual PGA Tour title. He closed out the year with win No. 3 at the World Wide Technology Championship in the fall. Griffin also took Scottie Scheffler to the brink at The Memorial Tournament and the Procore Championship. He ended the campaign with 17 top-20 finishes and was top 5 in both SG: Total and adjusted scoring average. Griffin played 30 total events in 2025, a pretty sizable difference from a lot of the other top players in earnings. That will likely dip in 2026 as he transitions from a middle of the road player who needs to play every event he can, to a guy who can set his schedule and make sure he is at his best for the biggest events. Griffin doesn't seem like a player at age 29 who will fall off given the makeup of his game. There is not a single weakness throughout the bag and he's played well enough on some tought golf courses to think that one day he could be a major champion. |
| 14 | Sepp Straka | 32 | 23 | $10,650,894 | $7,500,000 | If you throw out the major championship results, Straka could have been hard pressed to ask for a better year. He scored a pair of victories, one of which was a Signature Event at the Truist Championship. Straka also had just two finishes outside the top 30. The frustrating part for him will be the fact that he went MC-MC-MC-T52 in the four majors. He needs to find a way to put that behind him and get over that mental hurdle in the biggest events starting in 2026. Straka has been one of the better ball strikers on Tour over the last few years, and 2025 also proved to be the best putting season of his career. The short game is really the only Achilles heel in his bag. Straka is still just 32 years of age and can continue to develop in that area. Crossing the $10 million threshold again is probably a lot to ask going into 2026, but he's not a guy you can see having a huge fall off anytime soon. |
| 15 | J.J. Spaun | 35 | 25 | $13,138,722 | $7,300,000 | Spaun had an absolute breakout season in 2025 that was highlighted by his triumph at the U.S. Open at the incredibly difficult Oakmont Country Club. As strong as his campaign was, it truly could have been even better as he was defeated in playoffs at THE PLAYERS Championship and the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Spaun also finished T2 at the Cognizant Classic and T3 at the Sony Open. The 35-year-old is a tough player to project going into 2026. On one hand you look at the numbers from last season and see a player who ranked top 10 on Tour in SG: Approach, SG: Tee-to-Green and Scoring Average. On the other you see a player who had never made more than $3 million in a season prior to 2025. Something will have to give going into 2026. |
| 16 | Harris English | 36 | 23 | $8,840,132 | $7,200,000 | English picked up his fifth career win early in the season at the Farmers Insurance Open, but what was even more impressive was his performance in the majors. English finished runner-up to Scottie Scheffler at both the PGA Championship and The Open Championship. He also added a T12 at The Masters. English has clearly proven that he has the game to take on the most difficult tests in golf and find success. That said, he was outside the top 30 in SG: Total in 2025, which doesn't really line up all that well with where he finished the season on the earnings list. English has a high ceiling given his ability to pop with the putter, but ranking outside the top 100 in SG: Approach does put his floor in question. |
| 17 | Hideki Matsuyama | 33 | 23 | $6,650,152 | $7,100,000 | 2025 had all the looks of being a great season for Matsuyama after he opened the year with a victory at The Sentry. Little did we know that would be his only top 10 of the entire season. Matsuyama would add 11 other top-25s, but not finding himself in the mix again on a Sunday was definitely surprising. The biggest issue for Matsuyama was the driver as he ranked outside the top 130 on Tour in SG: Off-the-Tee and total driving. He did have another strong season from an approach and short game perspective, however. The 33-year-old's upside is hard to determine going into 2026 given his always volatile putter, but really it comes down to whether or not Matsuyama is able to figure out the driver. |
| 18 | Corey Conners | 33 | 21 | $8,167,903 | $7,000,000 | Conners has been one of the highest floor players on the PGA Tour for the last few years due to his extremely consistent ball striking. When he gets the putter to match up as well, it's hard to keep him out of the top 10. This was the first season of Conners' career that he ranked inside the top 100 in SG: Putting. He had a great start to the season with top-25s in 10 of his first 14 starts, but seemed to lose some steam over the rest of the year. If he can continue to be a plus putter, the ceiling for Conners gets a lot higher. He's still also just 33-years-old and has the type of game to one day win a major championship. Conners has been top 10 at The Masters in four of the last six years. |
| 19 | Keegan Bradley | 39 | 21 | $8,702,812 | $6,900,000 | When Bradley accepted the offer to become the 2025 Ryder Cup Captain for the U.S. Team, nobody would have thought that he would have put together the season that he did. It was quite honestly one of the best of his career, and had many believe that he should be on the Ryder Cup team himself as a player. Bradley won for the eighth time at the PGA Tour at the Travelers Championship, which was one of 11 top-20s on the campaign. He ranked top 10 on Tour in SG: Tee-to-Green, proving that even at age 39 the ball striking is as good as it has ever been. The only real negative about Bradley's game was the fact that he ranked outside the top 100 for the second straight season in SG: Putting. Nevertheless, 2026 will be an interesting year for Bradley now that he doesn't have the Ryder Cup hanging over his head. He still has the game to be considered amongst some of the better players on the PGA Tour. |
| 20 | Justin Thomas | 32 | 22 | $10,896,155 | $6,700,000 | Thomas won for the first time on the PGA Tour in nearly three years when he outlasted Andrew Novak in a playoff at the RBC Heritage. He also added a trio of runner-up finishes early in the season, which could have made a good season look even better. The second-half of the season was a little puzzling, however, as Thomas made less than 25 percent of his season earnings total from the PGA Championship onwards. The approach play, short game and putting was all very solid, but the one big issue he needs to address going into 2026 is his driving. The driver used to be a weapon for Thomas in the past, but he ranked outside the top-150 on Tour in total driving and driving accuracy. At 32, Thomas still has a lot of good years of golf left in the tank, but it feels like it's been awhile since we've talked about this 16-time PGA Tour winner as being one of the best players in the world. Part of that can be chalked up to his major record of late. Over the last three years he has just one top-30 finish in the majors along with a whopping seven missed cuts. The biggest issue for Thomas going into 2026, however, is that he is recovering from back surgery. His timeline for return is unknown, but Thomas could miss the first couple months of the season, which would negatively affect his value in salary cap leagues. |
| 21 | Maverick McNealy | 30 | 25 | $8,322,575 | $6,500,000 | After closing 2024 with his first PGA Tour win at the RSM Classic, McNealy used that as a springboard to a strong 2025 campaign. The Stanford product did pretty much everything but win last season, racking up five top-5 finishes. McNealy was one of the biggest Ryder Cup snubs, and his elite putting is something the U.S. Team certainly needed at Bethpage. He also had one of the best ball striking seasons of his career. The only hole you could really poke in McNealy was in the short game department, which is ironic considering he ranked 10th on Tour in SG: Around-the-Green in 2024. If McNealy can take his iron play from 2025 and get back to that kind of short game play, he could be in for an even better season in 2026. A big focus for McNealy has to be his play in the majors, as he has yet to finish better than T23 in 12 career starts. |
| 22 | Shane Lowry | 38 | 21 | $7,082,794 | $6,300,000 | Lowry put together another solid campaign in 2025, but noticeably failed to win an individual event on the PGA Tour for the sixth straight season. In fact his last such victory was his triumph at the 2019 Open Championship. Lowry came close on two different occassions with runner-up finishes at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Truist Champioship, bested by Ryder Cup teammates Rory McIlroy and Sepp Straka, respectively. Lowry finished the season top 30 in both SG: Total and adjusted scoring average. It was another great ball striking season as Lowry landed inside the top 5 in SG: Approach, but it was the third consecutive year that he failed to crack the top 100 in SG: Putting. Lowry isn't getting any younger at age 38, but he certainly still has the tools to win when he puts it all together. He needs to get off to a fast start in 2026. |
| 23 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 31 | 22 | $3,831,413 | $6,200,000 | It seems like Fitzpatrick has been around for decades with all the career swings, but this will only be his seventh full season on the PGA Tour. In that time he's gone from underacheiver, to major winner, to stuck in a long drought and now he perhaps is on his way back to the form that won the 2022 U.S. Open. Fitzpatrick peaked during the 2022-2023 seasons, when he earned a combined $15 million and posted three wins, including the aforementioned major. Fitgerald's drought in 2024 (a season mind you, that he earned nearly $4 million) might have been a result of raised expectations. Sure, he wasn't himself for a long stretch, but he still managed to post some solid numbers. Now that expectations have been reset, Fitzgerald has a chance to over perform once again. With that in mind, Fitzgerald should be considered for salary cap leagues this season. |
| 24 | Daniel Berger | 32 | 21 | $4,115,448 | $6,000,000 | It was a long road back from injury for Berger, we last saw him at the peak of his powers in 2022, but an injury sidelined him for all of 2023 and greatly affected his results in 2024. This past year, however, he started to resemble the golfer he was prior to 2022. He did tail off a bit at the end of the season, but that was to be expected after playing so much golf in a short span after a long layoff. Berger is in his early-30s, so he had plenty of peak years in front of him. As long as he stays healthy, he should continue to improve and at some point, get back to the player that won four events in six years. Berger is a top 30 player if everything goes right and as such, he deserves a look in salary cap leagues this season. |
| 25 | Michael Thorbjornsen | 24 | 23 | $2,286,658 | $5,700,000 | It was a tale of two seasons for Thorbjornsen, who began 2025 by missing 6-of-9 cuts with a best finish of T39. He turned the corner thereafter, seriously contending with four top-5 finishes as he continues to improve heading into his third season. The 2024 PGA Tour University ranking leader will be a popular breakout candidate for 2026 when you consider his pedigree and age (24), on top of being one of the longest players on Tour. If there's something to nitpick, he's only been an average putter and is a poor bunker player. Even so, the ball striking makes him stand out as a player that can take a big leap next season. |
| 26 | Sungjae Im | 27 | 28 | $5,082,896 | $5,500,000 | The first thing that jumps off the page for Im in 2025 was how poor his iron play was. He ranked outside the top 160 on Tour in SG: Approach, GIR percentage and proximity. It's hard to find a lot of consistent results when that is the case. Iron play may have never been the staple of Im's game, but it certainly had not been anywhere close to this poor at any other point in his career. The good news is that he made the best of a bad situation by ranking second in SG: Around-the-Green, and also drove the ball very well. The majority of Im's earnings in 2025 came from three top-5 finishes at The Senty, the Farmers Insurance Open and The Masters. He did miss eight cuts, however, the most in a season for him since his rookie campaign in 2018-19. Im is still just 27-years-old and feels too talented to have another season outside the top 100 in SG: Total. Expect to see some more consistency in 2026. |
| 27 | Akshay Bhatia | 23 | 26 | $4,882,187 | $5,400,000 | Bhatia's best showing in 2025 was a T3 at THE PLAYERS Championship. He added three other top-10s throughout the campaign and was one of the top birdie-makers on Tour. His combination of iron play and putting led to a lot of red numbers, as he ranked top 15 in SG: Approach and putts per GIR. The rest of the game has big room for improvement, however, finishing the season outside the top 140 on Tour in total driving, SG: Around-the-Green and scrambling. Bhatia has proven he can win on the PGA Tour, and at just 23, he's going to be contending for wins for years to come. Bhatia isn't a long-hitter, so he needs to work on finding more fairways so he can take advantage of that great iron play. He's also never been top 100 in SG: Around-the-Green, but if he's able to do that in 2026 that could lead to a true breakout campaign. |
| 28 | Chris Gotterup | 26 | 28 | $4,844,784 | $5,300,000 | Gotterup got off to a slow start in 2025 as he missed the cut in 8 of his first 12 starts. He started to find his groove as the season went on racking up eight top-30s over his next nine starts. Then the true breakout happened. Gotterup stared down Rory McIlroy in the final group on Sunday at the Scottish Open and picked up his second PGA Tour victory. He rode that momentum into The Open Championship next week and finished solo third. After a T10 the following week at the 3M Open, there was a lot of talk about putting Gotterup on the Ryder Cup team. The FedExCup playoffs were mostly a disappointment, however, and Gotterup would get passed up on by U.S. Captain Keegan Bradley. Nevertheless, Gotterup's play over the second half of the 2025 season leaves plenty of reason for optimism going into 2026. He was arguably the best driver on the PGA Tour over that time, and also saw huge strides in his iron play, short game and putting. If Gotterup is able to put it all together for a full season, the potential is certainly there for him to one day become a top player on Tour. |
| 29 | Tony Finau | 36 | 20 | $2,551,493 | $5,100,000 | Finau was simply not himself this past season and there's a chance that was a result of his off-season knee surgery at the end of 2024. He started the 2025 season as he normally would, but there are no injury reports in golf, so we have no idea how he was actually feeling the entire season. His earnings dropped so dramatically in 2025, an injury is the most likely excuse. Athletes rarely blame poor performance on injuries, so even if Finau didn't use that as an excuse, it's safe to say that he wasn't physically right all season. With that in mind, if he gets back to anything close to 100 percent in 2026, he should crush his 2025 numbers. As such, Finau is almost a must-have enterting this season as he's bound to play much better this season than he did this past season. |
| 30 | Taylor Pendrith | 34 | 23 | $3,978,452 | $5,000,000 | Pendrith had a breakout season in 2024, and though he didn't quite match that level of production in 2025, he came pretty close. Pendrith didn't make it to the PGA Tour until he was 30-years-old, which can be concerning, but he hit the ground running in his rookie season and hasn't had a down season since joining the Tour. During his breakout season, Pendrith carded one win and seven top-10s, yet he earned only slightly more than he did during his 2025 season, which indicates that he didn't play or produce much at the Signature Events. The opposite was true this past year as he only had four top-10s, but he got them in the right weeks. Pendrith looks like he's on the way up still and as such, he's a viable salary cap option this season. |
| 31 | Jordan Spieth | 32 | 19 | $3,159,660 | $4,900,000 | Spieth was a top-10 player in the world for most of his first five years on the PGA Tour, but his game started to slide in 2018. He bottomed-out in 2020, but by 2021, he was back inside the top 20. His game fell off again in 2024 due to injury, and as of this past season, he's still working his way back. The question is, if he does make it back, how far back does he get? Can he be the top-10 player again? It seems unlikely that he'll reach those heights again, but he's certainly capable of getting back into the top 30. Spieth provides a pretty solid floor with a high ceiling for someone in the $3 million range. As such, he makes for a solid salary cap pick for the upcoming season. |
| 32 | Brian Harman | 38 | 23 | $5,547,660 | $4,850,000 | While Harman earned slightly more than in 2024, he was statistically way off in 2025. Harman was outside the top 80 in SG: Total and scoring average on the PGA Tour. That comes after a year in 2024 where he gained strokes across the board. Harman has always been known as one of the top putters on Tour, but 2025 marked the worst SG: Putting season of his career. Fortunately he was able to put together four rounds and win the Valero Texas Open, which certainly gives a better taste about 2025 that he would have otherwise had. Harman also finished top 10 at two Signature Events and a major last season. The 38-year-old is a grinder and likely will find himself in the hunt for a win at some point in 2026, but getting his putter back to form and finding something on approach would go a long way in Harman finding more consistent results. |
| 33 | Denny McCarthy | 32 | 22 | $3,871,251 | $4,800,000 | McCarthy was known as a solid golfer and a great putter up through the 2022 season, but his 2023 season changed everything. During that season he scored eight top-10s on his way to over $6 million in earnings. Essentially, he reset the bar, a bar which he's failed to reach the past two seasons. It's only through the eyes of raised expectations that McCarthy has underperformed though, as he's come close to hitting the $4 million mark in each of those campaigns and landed in the top 50 after each. McCarthy is not a splashy player, he's very much the opposite. He's as consistent as they come finishing inside the top-25 in nearly half of his starts since 2023. While he has yet to win, if he keeps up this pace, he's bound to find a win at some point. As such, McCarthy should be considered in salary cap leagues this season. |
| 34 | Si Woo Kim | 30 | 29 | $4,184,686 | $4,700,000 | Kim has been the model of consistency on the PGA Tour since joining in 2016. Though he doesn't play quite as much as he used to, he's still good for 25+ events each season, often nearning 30 by year's end. Kim posted wins in each of his first two years on tour and while he hasn't won as much over the past eight seasons, the production remains at a high level. The only concern with Kim is that his numbers have been trending down over the past two seasons. He's earned around $4 million in each of those seasons, but that's a drop from over $5 million in 2023. Kim was missing the high-end finishes this past season, but his top-25s reached a career high with 14 in 2025. As long as he keeps giving himself a chance to win, the high-end finishes should come back. As such, he makes for an interesting salary cap candidate this season. |
| 35 | Alex Noren (D) | 43 | 10 | $1,346,680 | $4,650,000 | A torn hamstring sidelined Noren for the start of 2025, leaving him unable to make his debut until mid-May. The rust showed for much of the summer until he closed the regular season with back-to-back top-10s. The veteran turned his attention the DP World Tour thereafter, where he won twice in a three-event stretch including the flagshap BMW PGA Championship against an elite field. At 43-years-old, Noren is playing arguably the best golf of his career and can contend to win often on courses that don't put a large emphasis on driving distance. |
| 36 | Nick Taylor | 37 | 23 | $5,431,209 | $4,600,000 | Taylor became a five-time winner on the PGA Tour when he prevailed in a playoff at the Sony Open early in 2025. It was a pretty solid campaign all around that included 12 top-25 finishes. He ranked top 40 on Tour in SG: Total and scoring average. The Canadian has developed into a consistent ball striker ranking top 30 in driving accuracy and SG: Approach. Taylor's short-game and putting is also on the plus side for a Tour player as well. The 37-year-old has won a tournament each of the last three years, and it's hard to put it past him from being able to find his way into the win column again in 2026 given how solid he is all the way through the bag. That said, Taylor's ceiling is somewhat limited considering that he hasn't had more than three top-10s in either of the last two seasons. |
| 37 | Wyndham Clark | 32 | 23 | $2,883,112 | $4,500,000 | With a major win under his belt and over $10 million in earnings, the sky was the limit for Clark in 2023. Another strong 2024 campaign and suddenly, Clark was considered one of the best golfers in the world. One year later and it's unclear what to expect from Clark going forward. Clark did not resemble the guy that won three events at all this past season, and it's tough to say if he'll ever be that guy again. Clark's ascention was unexpected in 2023, as he didn't show a lot in his first two seasons on the PGA Tour, so the question is, was this some rare two-year run or will he find his game again in 2026? At his current price, there isn't a lot of risk with Clark, and considering his upside, he's probably worth a salary cap spot this season. He didn't play well in 2025 and still managed a top 60 spot on the money list, so if he resembles that major winner, even for only a few weeks this season, he'll have been worth the price. |
| 38 | Rasmus Hojgaard | 24 | 21 | $2,103,443 | $4,450,000 | One of 10 players to acquire his card from the DP World Tour in 2024, Hojgaard was one of only two to retain it for the following season on the heels of a runner-up finish in the team event and six individual top-25s. He also played well in Europe this fall, posting a top-10 finish in 3-of-6 events, so the game is in good form heading into next year. Coming off his first Ryder Cup, the 24-year-old looks to have a high ceiling as one of the longer drivers on Tour combined with an elite putter. That's a recipe for spike weeks, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see him pick up his first win next year. |
| 39 | Aaron Rai | 30 | 21 | $3,274,601 | $4,400,000 | Rai not only picked up his first PGA Tour win during the 2024 season, but he ended that season in the top 30. That season was the end of a three-year run that saw improvement each season. His 2025 season saw some regression, but he closed it out with a win overseas at the Abu Dhabi Championship. It makes for a great set up in salary cap pools as Rai's number are well off of his 2024 numbers, but the level of play in total is similar, he just doesn't have to absorb the winnings from Abu Dhabi in his PGA total. Though his production on the PGA Tour fell off a little this past season, Rai seems like he's still ascending. That, combined with the discounted number from this past year make Rai a solid salary cap play for this season. |
| 40 | Min Woo Lee | 27 | 19 | $3,301,286 | $4,350,000 | Lee entered the PGA Tour with high expectations and although he hasn't quite lived up to those expectations, he's doing pretty well. Lee has picked up wins in each of his first two full seasons on the PGA Tour, which have obviously helped his final numbers, but the consistency has been lacking. Aside from the two wins, Lee has only two other top-10s in two full seasons. It's that consistecny, or lack thereof, that's preventing him from taking the next step. With that in mind, Lee is an interesting salary cap option this season, but he'll only pay off if he can find consistency. If he finds consistency, he's a top 30-type of golfer, if not, he'll need to pick up another win to have any chance of landing in the top 50 at season's end. |
| 41 | Jason Day | 38 | 16 | $3,740,375 | $4,300,000 | Day was one of the best golfers on the planet a decade ago, and while he's nowhere near that level anymore, he's been pretty productive over the past three years. Those three seasons followed a rough patch (for someone at Day's level) where he failed to top $2 million earnings in any season. Since then however he's posted some big numbers and found a home again in the top 50. Although it feels like he's been around for a couple decades, Day is yet to turn 40 and should have plenty left in the tank. He's only three years removed from a season where he nearly earned $7 million, so that would seemingly be the ceiling right now. As such, he's in the mix for a salary cap spot this season. |
| 42 | Kurt Kitayama | 32 | 23 | $3,476,376 | $4,250,000 | Kitayama started fast in his rookie season of 2022, earning over $2.5 million and landing in the top 50 at season's end. His second season was even better as he picked up his first PGA Tour win, earned over $6 million and made the TOUR Championship. Season three saw some regression, but he worked his way back this past season and looks to be on track again. A win at the 3M Open certainly helped in his effort to get back on track, and perhaps now that he's got win number two under his belt, he can think about getting back to the TOUR Championship. A promising sign for Kitayama is how he played down the stretch after he won at the 3M Open. Kitayama posted a top 10 at the St. Jude Championship and he followed that up with a top 20 at the BMW Championship. Kitayama has enough upside to be considered as a salary cap play this season and could be a sneaky play as someone who is generally under the radar. |
| 43 | Harry Hall | 28 | 25 | $4,309,601 | $4,200,000 | Hall's apperance makes it look like he's on the verge of the Champions Tour, but he is in fact still in his 20s. His game this past season was reminiscient of a golfer in his prime however as he posted career-highs in almost every measurable category including earnings, top-10s, top-25s and so on. Hall's strokes-gained numbers were especially impressive, ranking sixth in total strokes gained and third in SG:Putting. It's hard to imagine he can keep up those numbers heading into this season, but a look at his results reveals that he didn't have a single top-3 finish, which leaves room for improvement. WIth that in mind, he deserves a look in salary cap formats, though it's doubful that he can improve significantly upon his number from this past season. |
| 44 | Michael Kim | 32 | 27 | $4,105,211 | $4,150,000 | Kim might have been the biggest surprise of the 2025 season. Prior to this past season, Kim had spent eight full seasons on the PGA Tour and surpassed the $2 million mark just once. Roughly half of those seasons he failed to surpass $1 million in earnings. 2025 was quite different however as Kim cleared over $4 million in earnings. Along the way he picked up his second professional win and four top-10s. Kim doesn't appear to be a flash in the pan, he should build off of this performance, but it's hard to imagine he can do much better than he did this past season. With that in mind, he's not a good salary cap option this season. |
| 45 | Bud Cauley | 35 | 21 | $3,321,090 | $4,100,000 | Cauley's first season on the PGA Tour was 2012 and just about everything went as planned. He ended that season in the top 50 and the future looked bright for Cauley. His game got off track soon after however and he spent the next five seasons searching for his game. He rebounded in 2017, only to end up in a car wreck that set his game back for a few more seasons. After a few seasons away from the Tour, he came back in 2024, with little success. Entering the 2025 season, there wasn't a lot of hope, but somehow, he managed to put up the best numbers of his career. Cauley is in his mid-30s, and while his numbers from this past season look like an abberation, remember that he was highly-touted as a rookie. He's got plenty of talent and he might have finally unlocked it. As such, he's an interesting salary cap option for this season. |
| 46 | Rickie Fowler | 37 | 21 | $3,441,954 | $4,050,000 | Fowler has seen a lot of peaks and valleys in his 15 years on the PGA Tour. Seven wins, four times inside the top-10 at year's and and tens of millions in earnings. That's the good. The bad is a somewhat recent stretch that saw him land outside the top 125 in consecutive seasons. He's since rebounded from that stretch but it continues to be a wild ride. In Fowler's comeback season, he topped $6 million in earnings and ended the season inside the top 10, but the following season he was back outside the top 100. Predictably, he rebounded from that down season and nearly cracked the top 30. If you believe in trends, he'd be due for a down year again, but he's running out of peak years at this point, so a renewed focus is just as likely. Even with that however, his number is set fairly high for this season, so he's not a great salary cap option this season. |
| 47 | Davis Riley | 29 | 27 | $2,496,448 | $4,000,000 | Riley has spent four seasons on the PGA Tour and he's yet to finish outside the top 75 on the FedEx list at season's end. Riley was a grinder his first two seasons on the PGA Tour, playing in 29 and 35 events. After winning in May of 2024, his pace slowed and his game fell off a bit, resulting in reduced production. Getting that first win on the PGA Tour can have that effect sometimes as it's easy to take your foot off the gas when you know your card is secured for two years. With the two-year expemption expiring, he'll have to shift his mindset this year and get back to the grind. With that in mind, he should play more often, resulting in a more lucrative season. As such, Riley appears to be a good salary cap option this season. |
| 48 | Davis Thompson | 26 | 25 | $2,439,587 | $3,950,000 | Thompson appeared to be on his way up after a strong sophomore campaign in 2024, but he never really found the magic in 2025. As is often the case with young golfers that pick up their first win, his game fell off a bit the following season. This happens because the pressure of retaining their card is off for two years. This is year two however, so if Thompson wants to retain his playing priveleges for 2027, he'll have to earn it this season. Normally that pressure is enough to snap the golfer out of whatever funk they found themselves in and that should hold true for Thompson this season. Luckily for those playing in salary cap leagues, Thompson's number dropped pretty low this past season, making him a solid play this year. |
| 49 | Sam Stevens | 29 | 29 | $4,392,752 | $3,900,000 | Stevens had a fine rookie campaign in 2023, fell back a bit in 2024, but rebounded this past season to put up the best numbers of his PGA Tour career. Consistency wasn't his calling card, however, Stevens' season was built upon three events. A runner-up at the Farmers was a solid start to the season, but there wasn't much to write home about for the next couple months until a third-place finish in May at the CJ Cup. Another dry spell followed until his second runner-up for the season at the 3M Open in late-July. To his credit, his did make 80 percent of his cuts this past season, and just over that the season before. It's what he's doing on the weekend that's a little concerning...if you're looking for consistency. Stevens is still in his late-20s however, so he's got time to work out the consistency issue. If he finds a little more consistency this year and maintains the same level of high-end finishes, he could make for a decent salary cap option this season. |
| 50 | Marco Penge (D) | 27 | 3 | $903,995 | $3,850,000 | Penge had a true coming out party in 2025. He won three times on the DP World Tour and challenged Rory McIlroy until the end for the Race to Dubai title. Penge's efforts landed him No. 1 on the DP World Tour Eligibility Rankings and will get him a PGA Tour card for 2026 and spots in THE PLAYERS, The Masters and The Open Championship. Penge has been one of the best drivers in the world and he led the DP World Tour in SG: Off-the-Tee in 2025. That will be a big weapon he can bring to PGA Tour setups. He was also 11th in GIR percentage and 36th in SG: Putting. The transition to the PGA Tour has been a difficult one for DP World Tour players in recent years, but Penge has all the tools to suceed at age 27. |
| 51 | Byeong Hun An | 34 | 26 | $2,652,079 | $3,800,000 | An started his career on the PGA Tour as a steady and relaible player, but poor results in 2020, followed by a lost season due to injury in 2021 seemed to have changed his make-up. An posted a career-high in earnings in 2023, and followed that up with an even better season in 2024. He regressed some in 2025, posting four-year lows in top-10s and top-25s, but he finished the season strong with a T4 at the Baycurrent Classic. There's no guarantee that An will bounce back from this past season, but the bar is set well below where he finished in 2024 ($5.8 million), so it would seem there is a lot of upside here. As such, he's worth a look in salary cap leagues this season. |
| 52 | Sami Valimaki | 27 | 23 | $3,388,761 | $3,750,000 | Valimaki was in danger of losing his status with three events to go but sprung into action, finishing T2 at the World Wide Technology Championship and later won the season-ending RSM Classic for his maiden Tour victory. That moved him up to 40th in the OWGR and will solidify his first trip to Augusta National in addition to at least the first two Signature Events of 2026. The 27-year-old will be entering his third year on Tour, and he stands out with well above average accuracy, iron play and putting. His lack of distance and poor around the green play can cause him to struggle on longer and tougher venues, however. Even so, there aren't many players that will be feeling more confident following a strong second half of the year. |
| 53 | Justin Rose | 45 | 19 | $8,857,976 | $3,725,000 | Rose turned back the clock in 2025 and had a very strong season highlighted by a few noteworthy performances. The biggest was his runner-up at The Masters in which he shot a 66 in the final round to force a playoff with Rory McIlroy. Unfortunately, Rose would suffer a playoff loss at Augusta for the second time in his career (2017). He cooled off over the summer before getting back on track towards the end of the season with a victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in a playoff over J.J. Spaun. That was his 12th career victory on the PGA Tour. While those big showings helped him run up his earnings total for the season to nearly $9 million, he did rank outside the top 90 in SG: Total. That's probably a little closer to his ability at age 45, and his earnings total in 2026 is very likely to fall around PGA Tour average. That said, he still has the experience to contend at the biggest events if everything is working. |
| 54 | Andrew Novak | 30 | 26 | $7,788,219 | $3,700,000 | Novak had a breakout season in 2025 collecting nine top-15 finishes, including his first PGA Tour victory at the Zurich Classic with Ben Griffin. He also nearly bagged another victory at a signature event in the RBC Heritage, but fell to Justin Thomas in a playoff. Many thought Novak was in a good spot to make the Ryder Cup team, but his performance tailed off over the second half of the season. The 30-year-old ranked outside the top 70 in SG: Total and adjusted scoring average in 2025, which didn't really match up to where he ended up in earnings. The ball striking for Novak has to be better in 2026 if he's going to be a more consistent player. Last season he was outside the top 150 in total driving and GIR percentage. |
| 55 | Nico Echavarria | 31 | 24 | $2,891,343 | $3,650,000 | Oddly, Echavarria posted wins in his first two PGA Tour seasons, yet this past season, when he failed to win, was by far his most lucrative regular season, earning more in 2025 than he did in the previous two years combined. The reason for this is that his win in 2023 was at an opposite field event and his win in 2024 came during the fall. Often times when a golfer is only winning against weak fields, he fails to make the jump to be competitive against better fields, but Echavarria made that leap this past season, posting a runner-up at the Sony Open and a T6 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Those aren't the strongest of fields, but it's better than what you normally see in the fall. Speaking of the fall, Echavarria continued his strong play this past season well into the fall, providing hope that he can continue his ascention up the PGA Tour ladder this season. Echavarria appears to have enough upside to make him a valuable salary cap selection this season. |
| 56 | Johnny Keefer (R) | 24 | 3 | $43,544 | $3,600,000 | The 24-year-old Baylor University product was guided by a pair of wins at the Veritex Bank Championship and the NV5 Invitational en route to clinching the No. 1 spot on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning not only full status for the 2026 PGA Tour season, but also exemptions into THE PLAYERS Championship and the U.S. Open. Keefer paced the KFT in both scoring average and par-breaker percentage, racking up nine top-10s and 15 top-25s across 23 starts. He ended his 2025 campaign with a T7 at the PGA Tour's RSM Classic where he averaged six birdies per round, already flashing upside at the next level. |
| 57 | Matt McCarty | 28 | 25 | $2,308,452 | $3,550,000 | McCarty stormed onto the season by winning in his fourth Tour start in the fall of 2024, and he followed it up with a respectable year that included nine top-20s over 26 events. With that said, he didn't have the ascension that many peopled expected, and he only seriously contended once. The lefty's game is built more around precision than distance, and when you combine that with losing strokes on approach, a lot of pressure is put around your short game to pick up the slack. There's still plenty of time for McCarty to improve as he enters his prime years, and he's more than capable of having some spike putting weeks and contending on shorter venues. |
| 58 | Rico Hoey | 30 | 27 | $2,536,072 | $3,525,000 | After finishing the regular season outside of the top 100 in the FedExCup, Hoey switch to a long putter to start the fall and the results followed with six top-25s including four top-10s across seven starts. His ball-striking numbers jump off the page as Scottie Scheffler was the only other golfer to rank in the top 10 in SG: Off-the-Tee and approach in 2025. A bit of a late bloomer having spent five years at the lower level before graduating to the PGA Tour, Hoey looks to be a pretty obvious breakout candidate that still needs to prove that the putting woes are behind him and that he can compete against elite talent. We're betting he will. |
| 59 | Thomas Detry | 32 | 24 | $3,651,876 | $3,500,000 | Detry joined the PGA Tour full-time in 2023, and he took very little time to get acclimated. He landed in the top 50 at year's end and hasn't left in the two years that followed. Detry hasn't shown a lot of consistency in his PGA Tour career, but he has shown some nice upside. Though he managed just two top-10s this past season, his numbers looked good because he picked-up his first win at the WM Phoenix Open. Detry isn't super consistent and he's not a grinder (he's played just 24 and 22 events the past two seasons) so it really depends on him finding his best game a couple times a year. That's not exactly a recipe for success when you're looking for golfers that have high upsides. As such, he's not a great salary cap option as he'll likely land somewhere near where he ended up this past year. |
| 60 | Ryan Gerard | 26 | 27 | $3,872,916 | $3,450,000 | Gerard played well as a non-member during the 2024 season, but not many could have seen what he'd accomplish as a full-time member in 2025. Gerard laid the ground work for a solid season with a runner-up at the Valero Texas Open in April, and he capped a great season with a win at the Barracuda Championship in July. After that win, however, there wasn't much to write home about. Was that a result of a hangover after picking up his first PGA Tour win? Possibly, but whatever the reason for the lack of results at the end of the season, the bar has been set pretty high for a guy that we just don't know that much about. Gerard looks like he has the tools to be a top 30 player on the tour, but his success has come pretty quick. As such, it's probably wise to take a wait and see approach with Gerard this season. |
| 61 | Garrick Higgo | 26 | 14 | $2,448,383 | $3,400,000 | The 2025 campaign went about as well as Higgo could've hoped for, as he was relegated to the Korn Ferry Tour but got into an alternate event in Punta Cana and won to secure his card through 2027. On top of that, he finished in the top 10 in all four fall events he played in to guarantee himself a spot into at least the first two Signature Events next year. Higgo will be entering his fifth year on the PGA Tour at only 26-years-old, and his game is solid across the board. The main question mark is that his best finish across seven major appearances is T47 and whether or not he can elevate his game against elite competition in the Signature Events remains to be seen. |
| 62 | Chris Kirk | 40 | 22 | $2,964,600 | $3,350,000 | Kirk has had a long and productive career on the PGA Tour. Only two times in 15 years has he failed to land in the top 125 at season's end. Kirk struggled during the 2020 season, like many did, but since 2021, he's been very consistent, never falling below 62nd on the FedEx list at the end of the season. Kirk's best season came in 2024, when he earned over $6 million and picked up his sixth career win. This past season wasn't great by his standards, but he still managed to stay within the top 60. The question now is, at the age of 40, does he have a few good seasons left or is this the slide towards irrelevance on the PGA Tour? It comes at different times for every golfer, some maintain a high level through their 40s, some drop off when they hit their 40s. Kirk's number fell enough to be considered this season as a salary cap selection, but he does come with some risk because of his age. |
| 63 | Max Greyserman | 30 | 27 | $3,798,185 | $3,325,000 | Greyserman had a strong rookie season on the PGA Tour, eventually landing in the top 50 at season's end. His sophomore campaign wasn't quite as strong, but he managed to score a runner-up finish in the fall at the Baycurrent Classic, which pushed him into the top 50 on the money list. It really was a tale of two seasons for Greyserman in 2025. The first half brought a lot of consistency, but few high-end finishes, while the second half had little consistency, but two runner-ups. His rookie season was simply split between good and bad, so in that sense, showing the ability to play well in spots for the entire season was a growth point for Greyserman. With that said, the bar is set pretty high here and it's unclear if Greyserman's ceiling is much higher than what he's shown to this point. With that in mind, it's probably best to pass on him in salary cap leagues this season. |
| 64 | Ryan Fox | 38 | 21 | $3,981,947 | $3,300,000 | Fox's first full season on the PGA Tour in 2024 was good, but not great. He did enough to secure his card for the following season, but he didn't show much of an upside. That all changed this past season when Fox posted two wins and nearly $4 million in earnings. The issue with Fox however is that he did all of his damage in one elongated run and outside of that, he didn't play well. With that said, anytime you win twice and make nearly $4 million, does it really matter if it happens within a two-month span or if it's spread out over the full season? Techinically no, but it does make you wonder if he just got really hot for a short and if it's replicable. Considering he's already 38 and it took a while for this breakthrough, it's probably wise to proceed with caution. As such, he's not a great salary cap option this season. |
| 65 | J.T. Poston | 32 | 25 | $3,233,502 | $3,250,000 | Poston was a little slow out of the gate when he started his PGA Tour career in 2017, but by 2019 he found a level of play that hasn't dropped much in six seasons. In those six seasons, he's never dropped out of the top 80 on the money list, and the past two seasons he's landed in the top 50. That consistency makes him a reliable option in most golf leagues, but it doesn't help much in salary cap leagues. Poston has three wins on the PGA Tour, but even in those seasons, he still managed to land in a similar spot to the previous seasons. He always seems to level-out around the $3 million dollar mark. As such, there's not much to consider here for salary cap purposes. |
| 66 | Nicolai Hojgaard | 24 | 17 | $1,897,477 | $3,225,000 | It's not often to find a 24-year-old with as much experience as Hojgaard. The 2023 Ryder Cupper is entering his fourth year on Tour after finishing 88th on the points list. That feels a bit lower than he should be, but Hojgaard typically doesn't play stateside until February and spends most of the fall on the DP World Tour. Although he's yet to win on the PGA Tour, he has the type of game that makes you think it's only a matter of time. He ranked third in driving distance and 11th in SG: Approach ,which helped lead to a pair of top-10s on each Tour. Consistency can be an issue at times, but the ceiling should give fantasy managers plenty to be excited about. |
| 67 | Jake Knapp | 31 | 23 | $3,012,401 | $3,200,000 | It took Knapp a while to make it on the PGA Tour, but once there, he wasted no time leaving his mark. Knapp picked up a win in February of 2024 and eventually landed in the top 50 on the money list at the end of the season. This past season was similar to his first in that he made just over $3 million, but he failed to find another win. Knapp did find a couple top-5s however, which boosted his earnings and a T12 at the PLAYERS helped a lot as well. If Knapp is to take the next step, he needs to play better against quality fields. To this point, most of his work has been done against weaker fields and until he shows that he can compete with the best players, the jury will remain out. As such, Knapp doesn't appear to be a great salary cap option this season. Even if he gets access to more Signature Events this season, he's yet to prove he can do any damage against the best fields. |
| 68 | Jacob Bridgeman | 26 | 28 | $4,437,269 | $3,150,000 | Bridgeman got about as much out of his season as he possibly could have. While he didn't play well that often, the 26-year-old certainly took advantage of the weeks everything was clicking with four top-5 finishes. The ball striking was very inconsistent ranking outside the top 120 on Tour in both SG: Off-the-Tee and SG: Approach. The putter saved him more often than not, however, as he was top 20 in SG: Putting. The short game was also pretty reliable as well, especially over the second half of the year. Bridgeman's floor is quite low going into 2026 given how much pressure he puts on the putter. Unless the ball striking takes a sizable leap, it's very unlikely Bridgeman is able to clear $4 million again on the PGA Tour. |
| 69 | Will Zalatoris (E) | 29 | 11 | $1,001,003 | $3,100,000 | Zalatoris tallied $1M in earnings from The Sentry through the Truist Championship before a missed cut at mid-May's PGA Championship preceded another back surgery for the 29-year-old, this time addressing two herniated discs. He's slated to return to tournament action at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in December of 2025, so barring any setbacks, Zalatoris should be ready to roll in 2026 on another medical extension. Zalatoris characteristically was struggling with his putter before the injury hiatus, but his ball-striking ceiling is quite admirable when he's at full strength. He gained a collective 13 strokes on approach across three outings from the Arnold Palmer Invitational through the Valspar Championship. |
| 70 | Billy Horschel (E) | 39 | 13 | $1,483,614 | $3,050,000 | Hip surgery sidelined Horschel from mid-April to mid-September, in which he was having a medicore season by his standards with a couple top-10s across 12 starts before the injury. It followed up a strong 2024 in which he won twice, and we've seen plenty of peaks and valleys in the 38-year-old's career before. In three post-injury starts, he finished MC-T54-T11, leaving it a bit unknown what form to expect in 2026. When Horschel is at his best, he's using his all-around game over excelling at one particular area, but the hip injury and worsening driving play raises concerns for next year. |
| 71 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 31 | 25 | $2,434,490 | $3,000,000 | Bezuidenhout had a massive 2024 season where he earned over $5 million, but his three seasons outside of that season have all ended with earnings in the $2 million range. The strange thing about that 2024 season was that it wasn't a result of a big win. Often times when a player makes a big jump in earnings, it's due to a win, but Bezuidenhout just grinded his way to $5 million that season. Bezuidenhout has the game to get back to that $5 million mark again, but the problem for this season is he won't access initially to the Signature Events, which will make it difficult to boost his earnings number. There is potential here, but the desk is somewhat stacked against a significant improvement in 2026. |
| 72 | Tom Hoge | 36 | 26 | $4,201,600 | $2,950,000 | Hoge was a true journeyman on the PGA Tour prior to 2020, often times fighting to retain his card for the following year, but Hoge suddenly found some of his best form in 2025. Hoge has topped the $4 million mark in each of his past four seasons on the PGA Tour, but he hasn't won since 2022 and he's been lacking the high-end finishes over the past two seasons. With that said, he's remained very consistent, which is how he's maintained such a high level of production. Though Hoge topped $4 million in earnings in 2025, his numbers did see a slight decline. Hoge will turn 37 this season and it's hard to imagine he can fight of the inevitable decline that comes with age and even though it shouldn't be a sharp decline, that makes him a poor salary cap option for this season. Expect another slight decline in production this season. |
| 73 | Max McGreevy | 30 | 27 | $2,522,721 | $2,900,000 | After being relegated to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2024 following two years at the upper level, McGreevy won twice to earn his card back. He responded with his best year on Tour, posting five top-5s, including in each of the final two events as he looks to carry the momentum into 2026. McGreevy isn't a long hitter by any means but is one of the most accurate drivers on Tour with no other notable weakness. He's yet to elevate against better competition, but he'll have the opportunity having qualified for the first two Signature Events next year. |
| 74 | Adam Scott (E) | 45 | 18 | $1,803,164 | $2,800,000 | Scott finally started to show signs of his age in 2025, making just 18 starts while failing to post a top-10 after recording at least three top-5s in each of the previous three seasons. The primary reason for the drop off was a poor year on the greens, where he ranked 122nd in SG: Putting. It's unclear what his schedule will look like considering he isn't locked into the Signature Events, although he'd likely get some sponsor exemptions. Scott still has plenty of length regardless of his age and a strong tee to green game, but he's also coming up on nearly six years without a win. |
| 75 | Stephan Jaeger | 36 | 24 | $2,684,801 | $2,750,000 | It took a while for Jaeger to find some traction on the PGA Tour, but after two down seasons and two years away from the Tour, he found his footing in 2022. It wasn't a great season, but it was enough to retain his card for the following season and perhaps some stability helped him focus on his game because things took a positive turn in 2023 when he posted a career-high in earnings with over $2.4 million. The following season was even better as Jaeger posted his first PGA Tour win and over $3.4 million in earnings. Jaeger regressed a bit in 2025, but not so much that a significant drop-off appears immenent. Jaeger's upside looks limited however, and as such, he's not a great salary cap option this season. |
| 76 | Kevin Yu | 27 | 26 | $2,536,810 | $2,700,000 | Yu's regular season numbers have improved in each of the past two seasons since his rookie campaign in 2023. In addition, Yu carded his first PGA Tour win during the fall portion of the 2024 season at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Yu has been pretty consistent in his three years on the PGA Tour, but he hasn't shown much of an upside outside of his one win during the fall. He did improve his performance during the regular season this past year, which is a good sign, but it's not enough to justify a salary cap selection this season. |
| 77 | Keith Mitchell | 33 | 23 | $2,014,835 | $2,650,000 | Mitchell looked to be playing some of the best golf of his career in the spring, as he went through a five-event stretch with five top-20s, including a shared runner-up and a top-10 in a Signature Event. He struggled to maintain that level, however, failing to post a top-25 finish across his next eight starts and missed out on the playoffs. Mitchell's strength has always been his driving play, where he ranked in the top 15 in both distance and SG: Off-the-Tee. The short game continues to lag behind, but on the rare weeks where he finds some form there, he often finds himself on the first or second page of the leaderboard. |
| 78 | Michael Brennan | 23 | 4 | $1,192,399 | $2,600,000 | Brennan is one of the great stories in golf from 2025. He put together an incredibly impressive season on the PGA Tour Americas, which included three victories. Brennan was then given a sponsors exemption into the Bank of Utah Championship and the rest is history. The 23-year-old dominated and ended up winning by four shots to lock up a PGA Tour card for the next two seasons. Brennan made three more starts to close out the fall and made the cut in each of them. His rise has been incredibly impressive, and now as a top 50 ranked player in the OWGR will be in The Masters in 2026 along with the PGA Championship. The transition as a full-time PGA Tour player will be a difficult one, but Brennan has all the physical tools to be a very strong pro for years to come. |
| 79 | Lucas Glover | 46 | 22 | $4,397,743 | $2,550,000 | Glover failed to accomplish much in the decade that followed his win at the 2009 U.S. Open, but to his credit, he really turned up his game when he neared the age of 40. Over the past five seasons, he's managed to maintain a fairly high level of production, even as he nears the age which he'd be eligible for the Champions Tour. His numbers from this past season were among the best in his career, with five top-10s and over $4 million in earnings. All of that is great, good for Glover, but his track record after a better than expected season is not great. In the season in that followed his best on the PGA Tour, 2023, he failed to crack $2 million in earnings, and that wasn't the first time he came back down to Earth after a great season. That and his advancing age make it nearly impossible to take him in a salary cap format this season. He still has value in other formats, but not nearly as much as he did this past year. |
| 80 | Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (D) | 26 | 5 | $866,941 | $2,525,000 | Neergaard-Petersen was one of the most consistent players on the DP World Tour with 14 top-25 finishes, but it took a heroic final five holes at the DP World Tour Championship to be able to clinch a PGA Tour card with a T3 finish in Dubai. Neergaard-Petersen has already has already proven he can compete on the PGA Tour with a runner-up at the Puerto Rico Open and a T12 at the U.S. Open in 2025. He's a terrific ball striker ranking sixth in SG: Off-the-Tee, 18th in SG: Approach and 17th in GIR percentage last season. Neergaard-Petersen has as much upside as any of the 10 DPWT players graduating to the PGA Tour in 2026. He's just 26-years-old and ranks inside the top 50 of the DataGolf Rankings. |
| 81 | Mackenzie Hughes | 35 | 25 | $2,497,976 | $2,500,000 | Hughes had a break out season in 2023 when he picked up his second PGA Tour victory, earned over $4 million and finished 13th on the FedExCup list. The two seasons since, however, he's failed to build upon that season. His two most recent seasons resemble many of the season prior to 2023, which would indicate that 2023 was truly an outlier. Hughes hasn't finished the season outside the top 70 since 2019, so a dramatic drop-off is unlikely, but a significant improvement on his number from this past year is unlikely as well. As such, he's not a great salary cap option this season. |
| 82 | Sahith Theegala (E) | 28 | 20 | $977,539 | $2,450,000 | There's a strong case to be made that Theegala was the biggest disappointment in 2025. He went from making nearly $8.5 million in 2024 to completely losing his game in 2025 and making only about $1 million. He was 16th on Tour in 2024 in SG: Total and gained strokes across the board. In 2025 he was outside the top 150 in SG: Total and lost strokes across the board. Theegala battled a neck injury that caused him to miss some time in the middle of the season, but he hadn't really done much to that point anyways. It's hard to project Theegala because there's not just one or two things he needs to focus on in the offseason. He needs to improve all areas of his game if he wants to get anywhere close to where he was to start his career on the PGA Tour. Theegala is still just 28-years-old and it's hard not to believe his talent will eventually win out and overcome this miserable stretch of golf. That said, golf is a fickle game and young players have lost their game's after strong starts to their career's before, but sometimes it takes years to find it again. |
| 83 | Pierceson Coody (K) | 25 | 13 | $1,171,494 | $2,425,000 | Coody notched a pair of top-10s and six top-25s across 17 events played on the PGA Tour in 2025, but he earned his card for the 2026 season via the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, posting a pair of runner-up results and seven top-10s at the KFT level this past year. The former Texas Longhorn actually paced the PGA Tour in SG: Off-the-Tee while also ranking top 5 in GIR percentage and birdie average, but Coody was just 130th in SG: Putting. |
| 84 | Emiliano Grillo | 33 | 26 | $2,315,983 | $2,400,000 | Grillo had a breakout season in 2023 when he picked up his second PGA Tour win and over $5 million in earnings. He finished that season 14th on the FedEx Cup list, but that's the only time he's landed in the top 30 in 10 full seasons on the PGA Tour. Grillo is a solid player with generally a couple runs in him each season, but his past two seasons have been lacking those high-end finishes, and that has resulted in significantly reduced earnings. Grillo's number is pretty low for salary cap purposes, but outside of 2023, he hasn't really shown much upside. As such, he's not a great salary cap option this season. |
| 85 | Patrick Rodgers | 33 | 27 | $2,793,088 | $2,350,000 | Rodgers has been on the PGA Tour for about a decade now, and although his play has improved over the past few years, it's safe to say he is what he is. He's a very consistent golfer that's lacking upside. In his 10 years on the PGA Tour, Rodgers has just four top-3s, but he has a bunch of top-10s and top-25s. He also plays a lot, often more than 30 times in a season, which is helpful is a lot of formats. Rodgers makes for a solid, reliable piece on a draft team, but there's simply not enough upside to take him in a salary cap format this season. |
| 86 | Matti Schmid | 28 | 25 | $2,303,222 | $2,300,000 | The highlight of Schmid's season came at Colonial where he finished one back of Ben Griffin at the Charles Schwab Challenge in May for his best Tour result. He had a bit of a letdown after that, missing his next three cuts, but he still managed to qualify for the playoffs. The 28-year-old is entering his fourth season on Tour, and his combination of distance and putting, where he ranked 31st in each category in 2025, sets him up for spike weeks. Schmid's around the green play continues to be a major weakness, however, and he'll continue to be held back on tougher venues without improvement in that area. |
| 87 | Vince Whaley | 30 | 26 | $1,869,447 | $2,250,000 | Whaley had just one top-25 through his first 11 PGA Tour starts of 2025, but he turned the corner with a top-10 at the alternate event Puerto Rico Open and had a strong fall that was highlighted by a pair of T3 finishes to end up 75th on the points list. Overall, it was the best season for the 30-year-old sixth year Tour pro as he missed just six cuts across 30 events. His modest ball-striking leaves doubts on his ceiling, where he lost strokes off the tee and on approach for a second straight year. Whaley isn't a player you want to overpay for in fantasy, but you could do worse if you're looking for a safe option. |
| 88 | Kristoffer Reitan (D) | 27 | 2 | $258,300 | $2,225,000 | After three years primarily having to play off the Challenge Tour, Reitan got his DP World Tour card back in 2025. He made the most of it to say the least, as he racked up eight top-6 finishes, including a win at the Soudal Open. All those high finishes helped him finish third on the DP World Tour Eligibility Rankings and secure his PGA Tour card for 2026. Reitan ranked eighth in SG: Off-the-Tee, 38th in GIR percentage, 43rd in scrambling and 34th in SG: Putting on the DP World Tour last season. He finds himself inside the Top 70 in the DataGolf Rankings and will hope to be able to transition quickly to the PGA Tour grind. Reitan is an interesting prospect at age 27. |
| 89 | Aldrich Potgieter | 21 | 19 | $3,038,146 | $2,200,000 | Potgieter was perhaps the most erratic golfer on the PGA Tour this past season. Potgieter posted a runner-up in Mexico in February, then a long dry spell until a T6 in late May, followed by an inexplicable win the next week. After that, another long dry spell that lasted through the end of the season. In total, it was three top-10s and the one win, which vaulted him into the top 60 on the money list at year's end. Potgieter is just 21-years-old, and he came out of nowhere in 2025, so there's a lot to learn about him in the coming years. Potgieter's ceiling could be much higher than what we saw this past year, but his lack of consistency is a little concerning. As such, it's best to take a wait and see approach with him this season, especially in salary cap leagues. |
| 90 | Haotong Li (D) | 30 | 3 | $730,667 | $2,150,000 | Li has spent time all over the world playing on a variety of different tours, but now will finally get a shot of a full season on the PGA Tour in 2026. He earned status given his play on the DP World Tour last season that included eight top-10 finishes. Most of his damage was done early in the season, but he did have a standout performance at The Open where he finished T4. Given Li is a global player and one of the hardest workers in golf, he should be able to adapt to the grind of the PGA Tour. Last season he ranked 18th in SG: Off-the-Tee and fourth in SG: Approach. That type of ball striking will certainly play on the PGA Tour. |
| 91 | Thorbjorn Olesen | 36 | 24 | $1,438,925 | $2,100,000 | Olesen's 2025 campaign was highglighted by a T14-T3-T14-T29 late-season stretch from the Sanderson Farms Championship to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, which ultimately allowed him to finish 96th in the FedExCup Fall standings and retain full status for 2026. The 35-year-old Dane missed only eight cuts across 24 starts, ranking top 25 on Tour in each of SG: Putting, total driving and GIR percentage as well. If he's able to improve his proximity metrics, particularly from the 125-175 yard range, Olesen could be a sleeper candidate next season. |
| 92 | Tom Kim (E) | 23 | 26 | $1,496,889 | $2,050,000 | It's difficult to find many golfers whose stock took at much of a hit as Kim's did in 2025. He managed just three top-25s and a best result of T7 across 26 starts to finish 105th on the points list, but he'll still have full status having won twice in the 2022-23 season. The ball-striking numbers were quite alarming for the 23-year-old, as he ranked outside of the top 100 in distance and accuracy, 142nd in SG: Off-the-Tee and 167th in GIR. The bright side is that the short game is still in good shape, he's very young and has shown a high ceiling with four Tour wins and mulitple top-10s in majors. With that said, Kim has given fantasy players plenty of reasons to be pessimistic that he's suddenly going to find things again in 2026. |
| 93 | Neal Shipley (K) | 24 | 2 | $23,701 | $2,025,000 | Shipley exhausted his rookie eligibility on the PGA Tour when he made eight starts as a pro in 2024, but he'll become a full-time member for the first time after a brilliant 2025 Korn Ferry Tour campaign in which he finished fourth on the Points List, winning twice at the LECOM Suncoast Classic and The Ascendant in the process. The 24-year-old Pittsburgh native paced the KFT in both putting average and birdie or better conversion percentage, though he fell outside of the top 50 in GIR percentage. Nonetheless, Shipley has made the cut in nine of 12 career PGA Tour starts, most notably tying for sixth at the 2024 ISCO Championship. |
| 94 | Bryson DeChambeau (L) | 32 | 4 | $2,521,317 | $2,000,000 | The 2025 season could be summed up as "what if" for DeChambeau. His victory at LIV Golf Korea was his first on the tour since 2023, he was the only member of the breakaway tour with two top-5 finishes at the majors (The Masters and PGA Championship), and he made history over the final three rounds of The Open Championship to crack into the top 10. However, it felt as though DeChambeau left a lot on the table in 2025, especially in the majors. He failed to make the cut in his U.S. Open Championship defense, finished second to Scottie Scheffler at the PGA Championship, and his brief lead at The Masters vanished in the final round, allowing Rory McIlroy to complete the coveted Grand Slam. In the LIV Golf League, DeChambeau had seven top-10 finishes and three top-5 finishes, which was enough for him to finish third in the Individual Season Standings behind fellow team captains Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann, and DeChambeau's efforts during the Team Championship at LIV Golf Michigan helped lift his Crushers GC squad to a runner-up finish to Rahm's Legion XIII. DeChambeau led the LIV Golf league in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (1.58) and scrambling opportunities (67.12 percent), and he finished in the top 10 in driving distance, birdies made, eagles made, putts per hole and GIR. DeChambeau has finished top 10 six times in majors over the last two years, and should be a regular contender again in 2026 at the four biggest events. |
| 95 | Mac Meissner | 26 | 25 | $1,762,863 | $1,975,000 | Sitting 159th in the points list in mid-July, Meissner only had one top-25 across his first 20 starts of 2025 following a promising rookie season. He found a way to turn the corner late in the summer, however, headlined by a runner-up finish at the Wyndham Championship. Meissner also made all five cuts in the fall with a pair of top-20s as he builds momentum heading into 2026. The SMU product features a solid all-around game, notably ranking 50th in SG: Tee-to-Green. He'll likely play a similar schedule that doesn't include the signature events, and it's easy to see steady progress in his third season without a clear weakness in his game. |
| 96 | Chandler Blanchet (R) | 29 | 1 | $0 | $1,950,000 | Blanchet collected his second KFT win of the 2025 season at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in October, improving his position to No. 2 on the Points List after emerging from the finale with the two-stroke victory. Although he's not particularly long off the tee, Blanchet ranked top 6 among his KFT peers in each of driving accuracy, GIR percentage and putting average. Turning 30 years old in January of 2026, Blanchet now becomes an intriguing rookie on the PGA Tour after missing only three total cuts on the KFT in 2025. |
| 97 | Jhonattan Vegas | 41 | 21 | $2,795,198 | $1,900,000 | Vegas joined the PGA Tour 16 years ago, and in that time he's had four seasons outside the top 125, two seasons inside the top 30, four wins and 14 top-10s. In other words, he's been all over the place, and if you're looking for some consistency, you need to look elsewhere. Vegas has posted two of his best seasons as a pro since turning 40, but his last year prior to turning 40, was one of his worst. In fact, a pattern has developed over the past six seasons, one of a really bad season, followed by two good seasons, then repeat. If that pattern holds, he's due for a down year. Whether or not the pattern holds, Vegas' upside just isn't high enough to justify a salary cap selection this season. |
| 98 | Max Homa (E) | 35 | 23 | $1,636,827 | $1,850,000 | A disappointing second-half of the 2024 campaign carried into 2025, where Homa missed six of his first eight cuts with a best result of T26. He showed some signs of life with a T12 at The Masters, but didn't post another top-25 until nearly two months later. Unlike last year, however, Homa has something to build off of as he closed the year with three top-20s over his last four events. Homa hasn't seen a drastic drop off in one particular area, but rather a steady a decline across the board over the last two years. Considering that we've seen him bounce back from struggles before and that there's no aspect severely holding him back, a resurgence from the seven-time Tour winner could certainly be in the cards. |
| 99 | Gary Woodland | 41 | 22 | $2,044,795 | $1,825,000 | Woodland is coming off his best season since 2021-22, which was highlighted by nearly coming from behind at the Houston Open to finish T2. He made a solid 16-of-22 cuts with eight top-25s, although he narrowly missed out on the FedExCup Playoffs. Despite now being in his 40s, Woodland still ranked among the top 20 on Tour in distance, but he's seen a gradual decline in his around the green play over the years, ranking fourth to last in the category in 2025. Surprisingly, he hasn't won since his breakthrough major victory six years ago, and that's looking more unlikely with each passing year. |
| 100 | Nick Dunlap (E) | 22 | 23 | $1,170,325 | $1,800,000 | Dunlap is exempt on the PGA Tour through 2026 thanks to his victory at the 2024 American Express, but he finished just 134th in the 2025 FedExCup Fall standings, notching only four top-25 results across 25 starts. The majority of his struggles came with the driver, ranking just 180th in SG: Off-the-Tee and 178th in FIR percentage. If the driving yips resurface in 2026, it could be another long season for the 21-year-old University of Alabama product. However, the rest of his game is fairly adequate, and he already has two career wins under his belt. |
| 101 | William Mouw | 25 | 21 | $1,597,314 | $1,750,000 | Like many rookies at the beginning of their career, Mouw had a slow start adjusting to the upper level with only two top-25s through the first six months of the year. The trajectory of his future changed entirely with one week at the alternate event ISCO Championship in July, where he fired a final round 61 to win by one. That seemed to free him up as he followed it up with a top-10 in the Twin Cities, and he'll have his card guaranteed for the next two years. With his two best results coming in alternate events, it's still a question if he can contend against better competition but his combination of solid length and putting checks a couple of key boxes. |
| 102 | Christo Lamprecht (R) | 24 | 1 | $0 | $1,725,000 | The 6-foot-8 Georgia Tech product and former No. 1 amateur in the world appeared in the 2024 Masters Tournament before spending his 2025 campaign on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he won the Pinnacle Bank Championship. Lamprecht went on to close the season with three consecutive top-20s from the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship through the KFT Championship as well, landing ninth on the final Points List. He paced the KFT in driving distance, averaging 331.1 yards per measured drive, but Lamprecht's short game needs polishing at the next level. |
| 103 | Eric Cole | 37 | 29 | $2,369,702 | $1,700,000 | Cole was unable to carry the momentum from his first two years on Tour into 2025, finishing 76th on the points list despite being qualified for all of the Signature Events. He played a busy schedule once again, teeing-it-up in 32+ events for a third consecutive year, but his four top-10s all came in lesser tiered events. The main problem for Cole is that he's a poor driver of the ball, ranking outside the top 130 in distance and accuracy. His ceiling is capped as a result, even if he does a good job making up for it with the other aspects of the game. |
| 104 | Alex Smalley | 29 | 25 | $2,337,573 | $1,675,000 | Smalley had a strong start to 2025, posting a top-25 finish in six of his first seven events before fizzling out with only two top-25s across his next 17 starts. A pair of top-5s late in the fall creates some optimism heading into 2026, but there's still question marks on if he can hang against better competiton. The 29-year-old has plenty of experience entering his fifth year on Tour, and his combination of length (61st in distance) and accuracy (50th) isn't common. He could take a leap if he can make some strides with his short game, but that's never been an area of strength throughout his career. |
| 105 | Chandler Phillips | 29 | 24 | $1,518,764 | $1,650,000 | Phillips was a far more consistent player in 2024, but he was able to do just enough in 2025 to retain his PGA Tour card. Most of that was due to his runner-up finish in Bermuda late in the year. Phillips missed 13 cuts last season and was 133rd in SG: Total. His ball striking was a real struggle, but he did perform well in the short-game department. In 2024, Phillips ranked 57th in SG: Total and 20th in scoring average. There's clearly some potential, but getting back to that point won't be easy. A fast start in 2026 would do wonders to get Phillips some momentum for the long haul. |
| 106 | Austin Eckroat (E) | 26 | 25 | $1,675,705 | $1,625,000 | Eckroat looked to be an up-and-coming player after winning twice in 2024, but he regressed to the mean with only four top-25s across 27 events while failing to post a top-10. The weakness in his game has always been his around the green play, where he ranked 176th in 2025. He's done his best to hide it with above average ball striking, ranking 55th in SG: Off-the-Tee and 54th this past season, but even that wasn't good enough. Eckroat will need to improve on his 119th place finish in the FedExCup next year to retain his card with his two-year exemption winding down, and the potential is there for him to have a bounce back campaign. |
| 107 | Jon Rahm (L) | 30 | 4 | $1,493,084 | $1,600,000 | Rahm came into the 2025 season having won the LIV Golf Individual Championship during his debut year in 2024, finishing in the top 10 in every tournament he finished while winning two of the last three events of the season. He was Mr. Consistency once again in 2025, and despite not winning a single LIV Golf tournament, he was able to outlast Joaquin Niemann to win the Individual Championship for a second consecutive season while also leading his Legion XIII squad to the Team Championship. Rahm had solid outings in the major championships -- including top-10 finishes at the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open Championship -- but those kinds of performances don't mean much when it comes to the four biggest tournaments in golf, though he did play a key role in Team Europe's Ryder Cup victory over the Americans. Rahm will enter the 2026 season looking to three-peat as LIV Golf champion while adding a third major championship to his trophy cabinet. |
| 108 | Jordan Smith (D) | 33 | 4 | $175,355 | $1,575,000 | Smith has been one of the regular DP World Tour players for the last handful of years, and now he will get his chance to take up full PGA Tour membership. Smith put together a season in which he had six top-10s and 13 top-25s. He also made the cut in both of his major starts. Smith ranked 20th in SG: Tee-to-Green and eighth in GIR percentage on the DP World Tour. The ball striking has always been there for the 33-year-old, but the putting can be very streaky. Smith has the game to be able to adapt to PGA Tour setups and could find himself in contention a handful of times. |
| 109 | Joe Highsmith | 25 | 28 | $2,820,859 | $1,550,000 | Highsmith struggled as a rookie in 2023, so much so that he lost his card for the following season. One start at the Cognizant Classic in February changed his fate for the next two years, however. Highsmith somehow won that event and secured his card for the next two seasons. He failed to show any consistency after that, but he did managed to post top-20s at the PLAYERS and the PGA Championship. In that sense, it was a dream year for Highsmith after struggling so much in his firs go-round on the PGA Tour. Highsmith was one of the great stories from 2025, but it's hard to imagine he can improve upon his performance from this past year this season. As such, he's not a salary cap candidate this season. |
| 110 | Luke Clanton (E) | 22 | 14 | $251,429 | $1,540,000 | Clanton earned his card via the PGA Tour University Accelerated program after making the cut at the Cognizant Classic last March. He was the second player ever hit the necessary 20 points to claim a PGA Tour card since this program has been put in place. Clanton flashed a lot of potential in late 2024 which included four top-10 finishes, two of which were runner-ups. 2025 was a bit more of a struggle on the PGA Tour for Clanton with zero top-10s and just two top-25s in 18 starts. The Florida State product felt the grind of the PGA Tour over the second half of the year and that hopefully will help him as he embarks on a full season starting in 2026. Clanton is a very talented ball striker, but the short game and putting needs to take a jump forward. There's certainly a lot of upside here. |
| 111 | Lee Hodges (C) | 30 | 21 | $1,617,203 | $1,525,000 | A T4 in the season-ending RSM Classic moved Hodges up to 101st on the points list, leaving him one spot away from having full status in 2026. It was his only top-35 finish across his last 10 starts of the year and a disappointing finish after he posted a T11 or better in three of his first six starts to begin the year. The four-year Tour member has lost some distance over the last couple of years but ranked 23rd in SG: Approach and gained shots around the green and putting. He figures to be one of the best players on the Korn Ferry Tour when he doesn't get into PGA Tour events. |
| 112 | Brian Campbell | 32 | 24 | $3,370,767 | $1,510,000 | Campbell's ascention this past year came out of nowhere. He didn't reach the PGA Tour until the age of 31 and his rookie season was a bust as he failed to crack the top 150 on the money list. One thing about this game, however, is that one bad year can be wiped out with one or two good weeks. Heck, 51 bad weeks can be wiped out with one good week. In Campbell's case, he had two good weeks this past season and each resulted in a win. Those wins vaulted him over the $3 million mark in earnings and landed him in the top 50, which will open many doors this season. That's the good news. The bad news is outside of those two wins his season was pretty lousy. That's the beauty of golf, you don't need to be good every week, just be great every once in a while. While that formula made for a great season for Campbell, it makes for a terrible salary cap play. Expect Campbell to come back to Earth this season. |
| 113 | Ricky Castillo (C) | 24 | 24 | $1,444,455 | $1,500,000 | No other 2025 rookie notched more top-25 results (7) than Castillo, whose maiden PGA Tour campaign was highlighted by a solo-third place effort at the season-ending RSM Classic where he paced the field in putts per GIR en route to 30 total par-breakers. Castillo's putting magic in the finale vaulted him to 102nd in the FedExCup Fall standings, earning him much more beneficial conditional status than originally expected for 2026. Ranking top 40 among his peers in both SG: Off-the-Tee and GIR percentage, the 24-year-old University of Florida product remains a sneaky click in daily fantasy contests. |
| 114 | Matt Kuchar (E) | 47 | 15 | $1,310,380 | $1,475,000 | After finishing just 118th in the FedExCup Fall standings, Kuchar will now have to decide whether to play the 2026 season with conditional status, or utilize a career money exemption. The 47-year-old posted just one top-10 result across 18 starts in 2025, though he made seven consecutive cuts from the John Deere Classic through The RSM Classic to close out his campaign. Kuchar also ranked top-25 on Tour in SG: Putting and proximity. |
| 115 | Adrien Dumont de Chassart (K) | 25 | 3 | $29,450 | $1,460,000 | A former collegiate standout at the University of Illinois, Dumont de Chassart's rookie campaign on the PGA Tour didn't go as planned in 2024 when he finished just 166th in the FedExCup standings with 15 missed cuts. However, he bounced back on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025, notching six top-10s and a clutch win at the Compliance Solutions Championship in October. The 25-year-old Belgian ultimately paced the KFT in birdie average (4.91), while also ranking top 10 in both putting average and scrambling. |
| 116 | Erik van Rooyen | 35 | 24 | $2,142,196 | $1,450,000 | van Rooyen had a mostly uneventful season with 13 missed cuts and just three top-25s across 25 starts, but he made the most of the weeks that he was in good form with a pair of runner-ups. That was enough to keep him in the top 100 to retain his Tour card for a seventh straight season. He has decent length off the tee, but he lost strokes around the green and putting while being bottom-half in approach. The 35-year-old didn't show much form this fall either, as he appears to be trending downward heading into 2026. |
| 117 | Cam Davis | 30 | 23 | $2,093,245 | $1,425,000 | Davis got off to a strong start in 2025, posting a top-20 in three of the first four events, highlighted by a top-5 showing at Pebble Beach. The momentum stalled thereafter, however, as that was his only top 10 all year, and he missed the cut in 11-of-23 starts. He elected to skip the fall season entirely, taking over four months off before playing in his home country of Australia in late November. Davis lost shots in every strokes gained category this season and isn't nearly as long off the tee as he used to be. The two-time Tour winner has shown ups-and-downs before, but there's plenty of reason to be skeptical that he can find his old form again. |
| 118 | Steven Fisk | 28 | 23 | $1,804,525 | $1,400,000 | Fisk is a perfect example of how one week can alter your future, as he closed the regular season 140th in the points list but won the Sanderson Farms Championship in October by two shots to guarantee his job for the next two years. Improving his consistency will be a main point of emphasis as he posted a top 20 in less than 15 percent of his starts. That will need to start with better putting, where he ranked a lowly 168th in strokes gained in 2025. With that said, he stood out by ranking 21st in SG: Tee-to-Green, so he has a good foundation to build from and is a potential fantasy sleeper heading into 2026. |
| 119 | Matt Wallace (C) | 35 | 22 | $1,570,460 | $1,375,000 | Wallace was a victim of the Tour cutting cards down to the top-100 on the points list, as the six-year PGA pro finished three spots away from maintaining full status. The highlight of his year was a T3 at the 3M Open and a T2 on the DP World Tour in August, but he missed two of his final four cuts with a best finish of T31 in that stretch in what was a mostly uneventful year. It's unclear if he'll go back to playing overseas or grind the Korn Ferry Tour route with the occasional Tour start next year. Either way, Wallace is still a quality player with an exceptional around the green game, but his deteroriating drivng play is less accustomed to today's style of play. |
| 120 | Mark Hubbard | 36 | 27 | $1,763,551 | $1,350,000 | Hubbard appeared to have lost his form this past spring after going through a nine-event stretch with only three made cuts and a best finish of T47, but he rebounded with three results of T12 or better across his next four starts to right the ship. A T3 finish at the Wyndham Championship was enough to keep his card for a seventh straight season, but he failed to post a top-25 in seven fall events. Hubbard relies on his above average putting, but he's never been a particularly good driver and the iron play has dipped the last couple of seasons. He's a tough player to be overly excited about as his best golf looks to be in the rear view mirror. |
| 121 | Austin Smotherman (K) | 31 | 0 | $0 | $1,340,000 | Smotherman made 76 total starts on the PGA Tour from 2021 to 2024 before spending his 2025 campaign on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he posted seven top-10s and 13 top-25s across 24 starts, highlighted by a couple wins at the BMW Charity Pro-Am and the Memorial Health Championship. The 31-year-old ranked top 8 among his KFT peers in total driving, driving accuracy and GIR percentage, but 29.71 putts per round probably won't get the job done at the next level. Smotherman's momentum also waned down the stretch, placing no better than T38 throughout his last six outings, which included a trio of missed cuts as well. |
| 122 | Patrick Fishburn (C) | 33 | 26 | $1,408,119 | $1,325,000 | Fishburn looked to be in good shape to retain his card heading into the fall, but he failed to post a top 30 across those seven events and ultimately finished 109th in the points list. He'll still get some starts with conditional status, and he certainly has the game to make the most of them. The 33-year-old has above average length and only strokes around the green in 2025. Fishburn's nine top-10s across 56 starts the last two years indicates a high ceiling, but with 26 missed cuts across that stretch, the inconsistency is holding him back. |
| 123 | S.H. Kim (K) | 27 | 2 | $28,000 | $1,310,000 | Kim lost a one-hole playoff to ultimately notch a runner-up result in the 2025 KFT season opener, but he avenged the defeat with a win in May at the AdventHealth Championship, securing a PGA Tour card for 2026 after finishing just 113th in the 2024 FedExCup standings. The 27-year-old Korean ranked top 10 on the KFT in both total driving and birdie or better conversion percentage, posting a 27.6 percent par-breaker rate. |
| 124 | Chad Ramey | 33 | 25 | $1,490,602 | $1,300,000 | Ramey clinched his PGA Tour card for 2026 with a strong T2 showing at the World Wide Technology Championship in the fall. Ramey didn't have many weeks to write home about, but he did collect four top-10 finishes which was a new personal-best on the PGA Tour. The 33-year-old was still outside the top 100 in SG: Total and lost strokes in every category except SG: Putting. Ramey was also fortunate to retain full status despite making only half of his cuts. He'll surely want to find some more consistency in 2026, but Ramey will likely be a risky boom-or-bust fantasy play for the foreseeable future. Sometimes a few hot weeks over the course of a season is all it takes to keep your card. |
| 125 | Emilio Gonzalez (R) | 28 | 1 | $0 | $1,290,000 | Gonzalez clinched a PGA Tour card for 2026 with his win at the Korn Ferry Tour's Albertsons Boise Open in August of 2025, ultimately finishing fifth on the KFT's Points List with seven top-10s in 25 starts this past season. He also ranked top 15 among his peers in GIR percentage, putting average and scrambling, but the 28-year-old was relavitvely short off the tee. |
| 126 | Kris Ventura (C) | 30 | 24 | $1,180,201 | $1,275,000 | Ventura will be playing off conditional status in 2026 after finishing 115th in the FedExCup Fall. A closer look at the numbers showed he played better than that as he ranked 88th in SG: Total and 43rd in scoring average. Ventura ranked sixth in total driving, 33rd in GIR percentage, 21st in proximity and 33rd in SG: Putting. There's a lot of positives to work with there, and even with limited starts, he could certainly out earn a number of full status players if he takes that type of game into 2026. |
| 127 | Adam Schenk | 33 | 25 | $2,016,294 | $1,250,000 | Schenk changed the entire course of his career with one week near the end of 2025 where he picked up his first PGA Tour win in extremely windy conditions at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Schenk's only other top-20 finishes in 2025 were a T6 at the Sony Open and a T5 at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson. He also only made the cut in 12-of-29 events. Schenk ranked 141st in SG: Total and 139th in scoring average. Thankfully that win gives Schenk the ability to play with some freedom in 2026 knowing that he will have a card in 2027, but he's got to play a lot better in pretty much every area of the game to make him worth a look in salary cap leagues. |
| 128 | Hank Lebioda (K) | 31 | 0 | $0 | $1,240,000 | Lebioda will be back on the PGA Tour for the first time since the 2022-23 campaign after finishing sixth on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List in 2025, notching 11 top-25s in 23 starts, highlighted by a win back in January at The Bahama Golf Classic where he birdied the first playoff hole to defeat S.H. Kim. However, Lebioda owns just five career top-10s across 120 events played at the PGA Tour level, repping a 49.2 cuts-made percentage. On a more positive note, Lebioda ranked top 10 on the KFT in both GIR percentage and scoring average this past season. |
| 129 | Takumi Kanaya | 27 | 25 | $1,463,762 | $1,225,000 | A couple clutch top 4 results at the Baycurrent Classic and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship during the FedExCup Fall proved massive for Kanaya, who earned full status for 2026 after finishing 99th in the FEC Fall standings. As a short hitter that also ranked just 164th in SG: Approach, Kanaya's ceiling is capped by below-average ball striking, but he paced the PGA Tour in FIR percentage in 2025, while also ranking top 15 among his peers in SG: Around-the-Green and scrambling. |
| 130 | Ryo Hisatsune | 23 | 26 | $1,835,136 | $1,210,000 | Coming over from the Japan Tour and DP World Tour, Hisatsune has done a good job adapting his game to the states to keep his card for a third season. That's not easy to accomplish for someone that's only 23-years-old, although that's not to say he hasn't had his share of ups-and-downs. Hisatsune had three reults of T6 or better through a two-month stretch in the spring, but he's also trending downward having finished the year with a lone top-25 across his final 14 events. Statisically, he doesn't jump out in any area and has been a poor putter. His age is the main appeal, but Hisatsune will likely have to battle to retain his card on a yearly basis. |
| 131 | Tyrrell Hatton (L) | 34 | 4 | $1,427,086 | $1,200,000 | Hatton jumped ship to the LIV Golf league in 2024 and had a solid campaign, winning LIV Golf Nashville and finishing fourth overall in the individual standings. However, his second season in the breakaway tour was not so good, as he finished in the top 5 in just two LIV Golf tournaments (Mexico City and Dallas) while finishing in the bottom half in the league in driving accuracy, scrambling opportunities and putts per hole. Hatton made the cut in all four majors, and he was close to capturing the U.S. Open Championship after taking the outright lead late in the final round before ending the day with back-to-back bogeys to settle for a T4 finish. That finish guaranteed a spot in The Masters in 2026, and Hatton should be a strong contender in each of the major tournaments while serving as a main contributor to Legion XIII's Team Championship defense in LIV Golf. |
| 132 | Keita Nakajima (D) | 25 | 3 | $54,400 | $1,190,000 | Nakajima did everything but win in 2025 logging a trio of runner-up finishes on the DP World Tour. He added another solo fourth at the Betfred British Masters. Those top finishes helped him to land amongst the top 10 in the DP World Tour Eligibility Rankings, which will give him full status on the PGA Tour in 2026. Nakajima ranked 24th in SG: Off-the-Tee, 15th in driving accuracy, 20th in scrambling and 36th in SG: Putting on the DP World Tour last season. He's only 25 years of age and has some potential, but the transition to the PGA Tour is likely to be a difficult one. Keeping his card for 2027 would be an accomplishment. |
| 133 | Alejandro Tosti (Q) | 29 | 20 | $1,010,144 | $1,180,000 | Tosti missed the cut in six consecutive starts from late May's Charles Schwab Challenge through July's Barracuda Championship, and subsequently didn't make another tournament appearance for the remainder of the 2025 season, so he may be dealing with an undisclosed injury. Despite a T5-T12-T2 stretch earlier in the campaign from the Texas Children's Houston Open to the Corales Puntacana Championship, Tosti finished just 137th in the FedExCup Fall standings. The good news was that he came back to earn one of the five cards available at PGA Tour Q-School and will retain full status for 2026. Tosti has upside mostly because of the ability off the tee, but 174th in SG: Putting isn't going to get it done again next season. |
| 134 | Kevin Roy | 35 | 25 | $1,734,139 | $1,175,000 | Roy's first stint on the PGA Tour in 2023 saw him relegated back to the lower level, but he regained his card this past season and did enough to keep it for 2026. That was largely due to a hot three-week stretch in the summer that was highlighted by finishing one short at the John Deere Classic. Roy's a late bloomer being 35-years-old, and his combination of above average length and accuracy led him to ranking 42nd in SG: Off-the-Tee. That gives him a solid foundation to build from, but he'll need to make strides with his iron play in order to take a step forward next season. |
| 135 | Adam Svensson (Q) | 32 | 22 | $487,188 | $1,160,000 | After a struggling year in 2025 where Svensson was only able to muster three top-25 finishes and a best results of T14, he will have full status again in 2026 after earning his spot via PGA Tour Q-School. This is a great second chance for the 31-year-old who has 159 starts on the PGA Tour to his name. Svensson has always been a solid ball striker, but 173rd in SG: Putting just isn't going to get it done. Until there are some big improvements on the greens, Svensson doesn't have much value in any fantasy format. |
| 136 | Seamus Power (C) | 38 | 23 | $1,318,706 | $1,150,000 | Power's 2025 campaign marked his worst season in five years, ultimately losing his PGA Tour card at 117th in the FedExCup Fall standings. The 38-year-old Irishman notched only two top-10s in 27 starts, one of which came at November's RSM Classic. Nonetheless, Power actually managed to make the cut in eight consecutive outings to end the season, so although he'll be playing on conditional status in 2026, there's some late-season momentum from which to build upon. |
| 137 | Zecheng Dou (K) | 28 | 0 | $0 | $1,140,000 | Dou hit his stride during the final stage of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season, posting a T2-2-T15 stretch from the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship through the KFT Championship, thus securing the 18th-place spot on the Points List and a PGA Tour card for 2026. Dou earned $1.1M during his last full season at the PGA Tour level in 2022-23, but he notched just one top-10 finish in 33 events played. However, he ranked 21st or better on the KFT in each of driving distance, GIR percentage and scrambling this past year. |
| 138 | Karl Vilips | 24 | 19 | $1,479,028 | $1,125,000 | After winning in just his fourth Korn Ferry Tour start following his graduation from Stanford, Vilips won even quicker on the PGA Tour, coming out victorious in his third start of 2025 at the alternate event Puerto Rico Open. He didn't have much success outside of that, with his only other top-10 coming in the team event while posting four top-25s across 22 starts. Outside of solid length off the tee (43rd in distance), Vilips doesn't do much well having ranked 145th or worse in every strokes gained category outside of approach where he was 95th. He'll be able to play with the luxury of having his Tour card locked up through 2027, but it's difficult to be overly optimistic about his fantasy prospects next year. |
| 139 | Trace Crowe (K) | 29 | 5 | $279,315 | $1,110,000 | Crowe, who won the Korn Ferry Tour's UNC Health Championship in early June, stacked back-to-back top-5s at the Utah Championship and the Pinnacle Bank Championship late in the season to ultimately finish 16th on the KFT's Points List, securing a PGA Tour card for 2026. Crowe also made five starts at the PGA Tour level in 2025, notably tying for fourth at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside playing partner Taylor Dickson in the two-man team format. In Crowe's rookie campaign on the PGA Tour in 2024, he collected just one top-10 result in 25 starts en route to earning just shy of $700K in official earnings. |
| 140 | Danny Walker | 30 | 23 | $1,561,918 | $1,100,000 | Walker had a mostly forgettable rookie campaign after spending the prior two seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour, but a T3 in the fall and a T6 at TPC Sawgrass was narrowly enough. Overall, he made just 11-of-26 (42 percent) cuts and saw the weekend just three times across his last 13 starts. While Walker features above average length and putting, he struggled mightily with his accuracy and lost strokes on approach and around the green. Without some major improvements in those areas, it's hard to paint a positive outlook on his future and the pressure will be on to make the most of his good weeks to continue to stay on Tour. |
| 141 | Adrien Saddier (D) | 33 | 2 | $44,350 | $1,090,000 | Saddier picked up his first DP World Tour win at age 33 at the Italian Open. He nearly added another at the BMW PGA Championship, but had to settle for second. Those were two of his eight top-15 finishes on the DP World Tour in 2025 and helped him to earn a PGA Tour card for 2026. Saddier didn't stand out in any one area from a statistical perspective last season, but more for the fact of how solid he was all the way through the bag. That puts him in a decent spot to be able to try and find his footing on the PGA Tour next season. |
| 142 | Beau Hossler (C) | 30 | 25 | $1,533,612 | $1,075,000 | It's not often you see a player unable to retain full status having made 21-of-29 cuts, but Hossler's only top-10 came in an alternate event, and he ultimately finished 104th on the points list. An eight-year Tour veteran, he's always relied on above average distance and a strong short game, but he lost 0.7 strokes per round off the tee and on approach combined in 2025 leaving him struggling to contend. Hossler's best results have traditionally come away from the majors and Signature Events, so it's likely that he'll find success on the Korn Ferry Tour and regain full status in 2027. |
| 143 | Taylor Moore (C) | 32 | 23 | $1,424,004 | $1,050,000 | Moore's maiden win at Innisbrook in 2023 secured his card through 2025, which he failed to secure after a disappointing season that saw him unable to record a top-10 post-February with more missed cuts than made ones in the fall. The four-year Tour pro's decline was largely due to losing accuracy (115th) and faltering iron play, ranking a lowly 147th in SG: Approach. Interestingly, Moore posted a top-20 in three of the last five majors he's played in, but it could be awhile before he makes his way back as he'll have to begin 2026 on the Korn Ferry Tour. |
| 144 | Zach Bauchou (R) | 29 | 1 | $0 | $1,040,000 | Bauchou has made the cut in just one of seven prior PGA Tour starts, but he'll be a full-time rookie in 2026 after a 2025 Korn Ferry Tour campaign in which he won September's Simmons Bank Open to vault inside of the top-20 on the Points List late in the year. The Oklahoma State University product finished the season with 11 top-25s across 24 events played, but he ranked just 85th on the KFT in total driving and 64th in birdie average. |
| 145 | Andrew Putnam (C) | 36 | 24 | $1,371,617 | $1,025,000 | Since graduating from the Korn Ferry Tour in 2017, Putnam was unable to retain his full status for the first time as he failed to record a top-5 finish and only had two top-10s for the second straight year. Life is not easy on Tour these days when you rank second to last in driving distance, but Putnam ranked fifth in accuracy and in the top-20 in SG: Around-the-green and putting to make up for it. There aren't many courses he can seriously contend at anymore, and he'll need to improve his iron play to regain full status in 2027. |
| 146 | Charley Hoffman (E) | 49 | 15 | $715,102 | $1,010,000 | The four-time PGA Tour winner only played in 15 events in 2025, the last of which came at the RBC Canadian Open in early June. Hoffman underwent shoulder surgery a month later to remove a benign lipoma. He should be back to 100 percent by the time the 2026 season kicks off and will hope to get things back on track. Hoffman had four top-25 finishes last season, including a T5 at The American Express. Clearly he still has the game to compete at times, but at age 49 he isn't getting any younger. Hoffman should be able to play off a medical exemption to begin the 2026 season. |
| 147 | Sam Ryder (C) | 36 | 24 | $1,314,035 | $1,000,000 | A mainstay on the PGA Tour for the last eight seasons, Ryder will begin 2026 on the Korn Ferry Tour after failing to post a top-10 across 28 starts. He only missed nine cuts and had a solid eight top-25s, but it was his first season without a top-5 and the points are near the top of the leaderboard. Ryder's iron game held him back, where he ranked 24th in SG: Approach two years ago but dipped to 141st this past season. |
| 148 | Daniel Brown (D) | 31 | 2 | $23,220 | $990,000 | Brown orginially just missed the cut in the DP World Tour's Top 10 Eligibility Rankings, but he will take the spot vacated by Laurie Canter, who is passing on PGA Tour membership to return to LIV Golf. Brown had a strong 2025 campaign with 10 top-20 finishes, including a victory at the BMW International Open. The 31-year-old gained strokes across the board last season on the DP World Tour, but the transition to the PGA Tour will be a big test for him. Brown introduced himself in 2024 at the Open Championship when he took the lead into the weekend before ultimately finished T10. |
| 149 | Dylan Wu (Q) | 29 | 13 | $486,226 | $980,000 | Wu split time between the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour in 2025, but it took a birdie on the first playoff hole at PGA Tour Q-School to secure a card for 2026. Wu's best finishes last season were a T2 at The Panama Championship on the KFT and then a T4 at the Zurich Classic. Wu's last full-time PGA Tour season was in 2024 where he earned just over $1 million and was 105th in SG: Total. There's not a ton of upside in salary cap leagues here, but Wu likely will be in the mix to retain status for 2027. |
| 150 | Doug Ghim (C) | 29 | 23 | $1,190,108 | $975,000 | Ghim closed the year with a pair of top-15 finishes to wrap up conditional status for 2026. He actually had seven top-25s in 2025, but only a best finish of T7. The lack of top finishes certainly hurt his chances to gain enough FEC points to retain full status, but he did play pretty solidly in 2025 ranking 92nd in SG: Total and 53rd in scoring average. Ghim was 10th on Tour in SG: Tee-to-Green, but way down at 177th in SG: Putting. While that ball striking does keep his floor in a reasonable position, it's hard to finish high on the leaderboard losing that many strokes each event with the putter. |
| 151 | John Parry (D) | 39 | 3 | $211,177 | $960,000 | Parry has been on the grind on the DP World Tour and Challenge Tour for the better part of 15 years. Now at age 39 he will get his shot on the PGA Tour will full status. Parry is coming off a season in 2025 where he logged seven top-10 finishes, including a win at the Mauritius Open. The Englishman was one of the better iron players on the DP World Tour ranking fifth in SG: Approach. He was also top 30 in SG: Around-the-Green and scrambling. There's not a lot of upside here in salary cap leagues, but consistent iron play goes a long way on the PGA Tour. |
| 152 | David Lipsky (C) | 37 | 26 | $1,411,093 | $950,000 | Lipsky's four-year run of having full PGA Tour status came to an end following the FedExCup Fall after he finished 107th on the points list. That's surprising considering he contended to win a few times with three top-5s, although he failed to record a top-25 finish outside of that. Lipsky has never been an elite player, only being ranked inside the top 100 for a brief two-week stretch in 2017 and found himself as a casualty of the Tour limiting cards from the top 125 down to 100. He'll still have conditional status and get some starts at the upper level, where he's shown the ability to occasionally contend against lesser competition on his rare good putting weeks. |
| 153 | Davis Chatfield (R) | 26 | 0 | $0 | $940,000 | Chatfield finished runner-up twice on the KFT in 2025 to ultimately earn a PGA Tour card for the first time ahead of the 2026 campaign. The 26-year-old Notre Dame product has zero previous experience at the top level, but Chatfield paced the Korn Ferry Tour in driving accuracy and he ranked ninth in par-4 scoring average. He'll likely need to continue relying on his short game, which limits his ceiling against much stiffer competition moving forward. |
| 154 | Isaiah Salinda (C) | 28 | 22 | $1,363,322 | $925,000 | Salinda's rookie season didn't go according to plan as he only recorded two top-10s across 26 starts to finish 106th on the points list. One of those came in the team event, and he only posted two top-25s post-April. His driving play sets him up for success, where he ranked 15th in SG: Off-the-Tee and was top-70 in distance and accuracy, but he lost 0.71 strokes per round with his short game on the year. Still only 28-years-old, Salinda has time to iron out the rest of his game, but he can't be considered much of a fantasy option without full status. |
| 155 | S.T. Lee (R) | 30 | 0 | $0 | $910,000 | A former regular on the KPGA and Asian Tours, Lee spent his 2025 season on the Korn Ferry Tour where he racked up six top-10s and 11 top-25s, highlighted by a runner-up effort at the LECOM Suncoast Classic. He'll be a 30-year-old rookie on the PGA Tour in 2026, having ranked top 10 on the KFT in both scoring average and total birdies this past season. |
| 156 | Joel Dahmen (C) | 38 | 25 | $1,208,852 | $900,000 | Dahmen's 122nd-place finish in the FedExCup Fall standings marked his worst closing position since 2017, ultimately losing his PGA Tour card for 2026 after missing the cut in 16 of 28 starts in 2025. Dahmen's short game was the primary issue this past season, ranking just 129th in SG: Around-the-Green and 144th in SG: Putting. He also split with long-time caddie and close friend, Geno Bonnalie. Moving forward, Dahmen's conditional status definitely isn't good for his fantasy outlook, but on a more positive note, he finished top 10 in both driving accuracy and overall proximity. |
| 157 | Kensei Hirata (R) | 24 | 1 | $80,088 | $890,000 | Hirata opened his 2025 Korn Ferry Tour campaign with a runner-up effort at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic, and he also posted a mid-summer stretch of T3-T2 at the NV5 Invitational and the Utah Championship to secure a top-20 position on the Points List. As a result, the 25-year-old out of Japan will become a PGA Tour rookie in 2026, though his underlying KFT metrics were relatively pedestrian aside from a 71.25 FIR percentage. |
| 158 | Jackson Suber (C) | 26 | 23 | $1,254,486 | $875,000 | Suber opened his rookie campaign with a T6 at the Sony Open in Hawaii where he recorded three rounds of 66 or better, but the 26-year-old Ole Miss product wouldn't post a better result for the remainder of the season, missing the cut in 14 of 27 starts as well. He ultimately finished just 124th in the FedExCup Fall standings, barely hanging on to conditional status for 2026. On a more positive note, Suber ranked 51st on Tour in SG: Approach and 32nd in proximity on approaches from 200-plus yards. The iron play is promising, but Suber's driving accuracy and scrambling ability are concerns. |
| 159 | John VanDerLaan (R) | 29 | 0 | $0 | $860,000 | VanDerLaan's month of September on the Korn Ferry Tour was a roller coaster, rebounding from a missed cut at the Simmons Bank Open to win one week later at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, surging from 52nd to 15th in the KFT's Points List where he ultimately landed 17th to secure a PGA Tour card for the first time heading in 2026. The 29-year-old ended his 2025 KFT campaign with 19 cuts made in 25 total starts, and he ranked top-25 among his peers in GIR percentage and birdie average. |
| 160 | Jeffrey Kang (R) | 34 | 0 | $0 | $850,000 | The 34-year-old USC product has appeared in just five PGA Tour events throughout his career, but he'll be a rookie in 2026 after notching a pair of runner-up finishes to go along with eight top-25s on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025. Kang leaned on a hot putter throughout the season, ultimately ranking third among his peers in putting average and 12th in birdie or better conversion percentage. However, Kang's ball striking is a concern at the next level, having ranked 133rd in total driving and 73rd in GIR percentage on the KFT. |
| 161 | Justin Lower (C) | 36 | 25 | $1,299,525 | $840,000 | After a career year in 2024 when he racked up over $2.4M in official earnings, Lower notched just three top-25s throughout 29 events played in 2025, ultimately dropping to 120th in the FedExCup Fall standings to lose full status on the PGA Tour for 2026. Lower made a run at the top 100 with a T3 at the Bank of Utah Championship in late October, but he missed back-to-back cuts at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and The RSM Classic to close out the season. He's a relatively short hitter that lost strokes across the board. |
| 162 | Gordon Sargent (E) | 22 | 11 | $113,848 | $825,000 | Sargent had an incredible amount of hype around him after his 2022 season at Vanderbilt in which he won the NCAA Individual Championship as a freshman. In 2023 he made starts at The Masters and U.S. Open and earned the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the leading player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He became the first player to earn PGA Tour membership through PGA Tour University Accelerated after hitting the necessary 20 points. Instead of immediately taking up membership, Sargent would elect to exhaust his collegiate eligibility and stay in school. Unfortunately, his senior season was a major struggle as he had just one top-30 finish all season. After graduating and transitioning to life on the PGA Tour the struggle continued, notching just one top-30 finish in 11 starts. Sargent is one of the longest drivers in golf, but his confidence has taken a massive hit over the last year and a half. That said, his upside is through the roof if he can get his game back to what is was a couple years ago. The talent has to win out eventually. |
| 163 | Pontus Nyholm (R) | 27 | 0 | $0 | $810,000 | Nyholm managed only two top-10 results throughout 26 events played on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025, but he made them count, tying for eighth at the AdventHealth Championship a week before winning the Visit Knoxville Open with an eagle on the first playoff hole to defeat No. 1 KFT player Johnny Keefer. The 6-foot-3 Swede ended the season ranked seventh among his KFT peers in driving distance and 14th in par-5 scoring, but Nyholm really struggled to find fairways. His results figure to be similarily volatile as a rookie at the PGA Tour level. |
| 164 | David Ford (E) | 23 | 13 | $319,398 | $800,000 | Ford will have status in 2026 thanks to topping last season's PGA Tour University Rankings. The UNC alum made 13 starts on the PGA Tour after his senior season ended. It was mostly disappointment with nine missed cuts, but he did flash potential at the Bank of Utah Championship finishing T3. The experience of having to travel around the country and play in all these PGA Tour events over the second half of 2025 should help him feel more prepared for his rookie season. That said, apart from behing a plus driver, there wasn't a lot in the rest of his game to give you a lot of confidence heading into 2026. |
| 165 | Sudarshan Yellamaraju (R) | 24 | 1 | $0 | $790,000 | Sandwiched between a pair of missed cuts, Yellamaraju emerged victorious at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour back in January of 2025, and he clung to a top-20 spot on the Points List by season's end to secure a PGA Tour card for 2026 when he'll maintain rookie status at the next level. The 24-year-old ended his 2025 KFT campaign with four top-10s and eight top-25s across 21 starts, though he also missed nine cuts and ranked just 85th in both GIR and FIR percentage. |
| 166 | Jesper Svensson (C) | 29 | 22 | $1,292,826 | $775,000 | Svensson excelled off the tee in his rookie campaign on the PGA Tour as he ranked fourth in driving distance and 10th in SG: OTT, but the Swede struggled with his approach play and putting en route to a 111th-place finish in the FedExCup Fall standings. Retaining only conditional status for 2026, it remains to be seen if Svensson will spend more time back on the DP World Tour. |
| 167 | Matthieu Pavon (E) | 33 | 23 | $634,425 | $760,000 | After making over $5 million in 2024, Pavon could not get off the ground in 2025. He did not record a single top-25 finish last season while also missing 10 cuts in 26 starts. Pavon is still fully exempt in 2026 thanks to his victory at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open, but he will need to perform far better in virtually every strokes gained category if he is going to retain his card for 2027. |
| 168 | Brice Garnett (E) | 42 | 21 | $631,678 | $750,000 | Garnett is exempt for the 2026 season by virtue of his 2024 victory back at the Puerto Rico Open. 2025 was a difficult season for the veteran as he failed to log a top-10 finish and had just three top-25s. While Garnett was just 120th in SG: Total, he did rank top 25 on Tour in driving accuracy, GIR percentage and scrambling. He was also 55th in SG: Putting. Garnett has very minimal upside at age 42, and should be off the radar of fanatsy golf players. Retaining his card for 2027 is going to be a challenge if he doesn't win another alternate-field event. |
| 169 | Marcelo Rozo (Q) | 36 | 0 | $0 | $740,000 | Despite finishing 45th on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, Rozo will have a PGA Tour card for 2026 after his performance at PGA Tour Q-School in December. The 36-year-old from Colombia will finally get his opportunity on the biggest stage after 14 years of being a professional. Rozo only has four career PGA Tour starts to his name and 2026 is likely to be a difficult challenge for him playing against top competition. He'll have to lean on the consistent ball striking he showed on the KFT in 2025 when he ranked ninth in driving accuracy and 30th in GIR percentage. |
| 170 | Henrik Norlander (N) | 38 | 24 | $1,015,479 | $725,000 | Norlander posted just one top-10 result in 28 starts during the 2025 season, and he missed the cut in five consecutive starts throughout the FedExCup Fall to finish 133rd in the standings, therefore losing his PGA Tour card for 2026. The 38-year-old Swede excels with his irons as he ranked eighth among his peers in SG: Approach, but he was 143rd or worse in each of SG: Off-the-Tee, SG: Around-the-Green and SG: Putting. |
| 171 | A.J. Ewart (Q) | 26 | 1 | $0 | $710,000 | Ewart came out of nowhere to earn his PGA Tour card by earning medalist honors for the PGA Tour's Q-School event in Ponte Vedra Beach. Ewart hasn't even made a single Korn Ferry Tour start and only has two career PGA Tour starts at age 26. After one great week of play he will have full status in 2026 and a chance to prove that he can do it at the highest level. He played on the PGA Tour Americas in 2025 where he logged four top-10s and seven top-25 finishes. The odds are stacked against him to be able to retain status for 2027, but the confidence in beating 170+ other players at Q-School hopefully can carry into the early part of next season. |
| 172 | Lanto Griffin (C) | 37 | 25 | $1,037,926 | $700,000 | Griffin either missed the cut or withdrew in each of his last five starts of the 2025 season, but a solo-third place effort at the Procore Championship in mid-September ultimately allowed him to finish 125th in the FedExCup Fall standings, and therefore retain conditional status for 2026. He was credited with just 11 cuts made in 2025, notching five top-25s in the process. |
| 173 | Cameron Champ (N) | 30 | 16 | $761,464 | $690,000 | Champ is a three-time PGA Tour winner, but will not have full or conditional status for the second straight season in 2026. Champ finished 147th in the FedExCup Fall standings. He played more on the Korn Ferry Tour early in the season, but the second half he just tried to take advantage of what starts he could get on the PGA Tour. Champ didn't have enough starts in 2025 to qualify, but his gained 0.951 strokes per round, which would have ranked 13th in SG: Total on Tour. The talent has always been there, but the consistency has not been. |
| 174 | Webb Simpson (E) | 40 | 10 | $382,319 | $675,000 | Simpson will be able to take a career money exemption in 2026 and have full status. That said, Simpson only played 11 events in 2025 and 16 the year before that. The former U.S. Open champ doesn't seem to have a lot of interest in playing a full schedule again, and as a result further limits his upside in salary cap leagues. Simpson had three top-25 finishes in 2025 and would have ranked 35th in SG: Tee-to-Green if he had enough rounds to qualify. That's still pretty solid, but it'll take some more commitment to playing if Simpson is going to have any value. |
| 175 | Brandt Snedeker (E) | 45 | 21 | $1,192,940 | $625,000 | A 126th-place finish in the FedExCup Fall standings will lend Snedeker more time to focus on his duties as the U.S. Team captain for the 2026 Presidents Cup, having lost his PGA Tour card with 12 missed cuts in 25 outings to go along with just four top-25s. The 44-year-old is struggling to keep up with his peers off the tee, but he ranked 11th on Tour in SG: Putting and 17th in scrambling this past season. |
| 176 | Brooks Koepka (L) | 35 | 4 | $349,741 | $600,000 | Koepka finished in the top 5 in the LIV Golf individual standings in 2023 and 2024 and won five tournaments over that span (including the PGA Championship in 2023). However, the 2025 season was a major regression for the Smash GC captain, who failed to accrue points in nine of 14 LIV Golf tournaments (including the final six events of the year), and his 31st place finish was only possible thanks to his T7 finish in Adelaide and solo second in Singapore. Koepka's (somewhat) bright spot to the season was a T12 finish at the U.S. Open Championship at Oakmont, but he failed to make the cut at The Masters, the PGA Championship and The Open Championship. He'll be in all four majors in 2026, which will be a prove-it kind of year for the five-time major champion. |
| 177 | Adam Hadwin (N) | 38 | 25 | $1,079,946 | $575,000 | 2025 marked the worst season in Hadwin's career on the PGA Tour. He ranked 158th in SG: Total and 141st in scoring average. The Canadian went positive in just one strokes gained category (86th in SG: Putting). Hadwin missed 12 cuts in 29 starts and logged just three top-25 finishes. It's unclear how much Hadwin will play on the PGA Tour after missing out on both full and conditional status for 2026. |
| 178 | Patton Kizzire (E) | 39 | 23 | $317,724 | $550,000 | Kizzire had just on top-25 finish and made the weekend nine times in 26 starts last season. The driving, iron play and putting were all very poor, but he did rank third on Tour in SG: Around-the-Green. Most of that is because he had so many opportunities to gain strokes witht he short game thanks to the inconsistent ball-striking. Kizzire will still be fully exempt for the 2026 season thanks to his victory in the fall of 2024 at the Procore Championship. The three-time PGA Tour winner has a lot of work to do this offseason to try to get his game back in a place where he can still compete at this level. |
| 179 | Joaquin Niemann (L) | 26 | 4 | $597,581 | $525,000 | The Torque GC captain came in with plenty to prove in 2025 after the LIV Golf Individual Championship slipped through his fingers and into the hands of Jon Rahm in 2024. The 2025 LIV Golf season was hot and cold for Niemann; on the one hand, the Torque GC captain held the season lead for most of the year with five tournament wins, four of which came through the first eight tournaments. On the other hand, he wasn't able to accrue enough points in the other events to maintain his lead, and for a second straight year, he finished second in the individual season standings to Rahm. Niemann's struggles in the majors continued in 2025 with two missed cuts (U.S. Open and The Open Championship) while finishing T29 at The Masters, but his T8 finish at the PGA Championship was his first top-10 finish at a major championship. Given his success in LIV, Niemann will likely be in the field for all four majors in 2026, and he'll join DeChambeau as the top contenders to stop Rahm's three-peat efforts in the breakaway tour. |
| 180 | Peter Malnati (E) | 38 | 23 | $282,493 | $500,000 | Things have been all downhill since his 2024 victory at the Valspar Championship. He has missed 24 cuts following that win, and has just two top-25 finishes in that span. Malnati was one of the worst ball-strikers on the PGA Tour in 2025, as he ranked 174th in both SG: Off-the-Tee and SG: Approach. He barely stayed afloat by ranking 14th in SG: Around-the-Green. The 38-year-old will give it another shot in 2026 in his final year of full eligibility from that win, but it looks extremely unlikely that he would keep his card given how poor the ball-striking has been. Malnati will enter the new season having not played since the Procore Championship, so that's a long off-season window to try to get his game and mind right. |
| 181 | Patrick Reed (L) | 35 | 4 | $1,589,489 | $475,000 | Reed was one of the more consistent players on the LIV Golf tour in 2025, as evidenced by his seventh-place finish in the individual season standings. He joined the breakaway tour during its inception season in 2022, but it took until his fourth year to win a LIV Golf tournament after outlasting three other players to lift the individual trophy on home soil at LIV Golf Dallas. In the majors, Reed's best outing came at The Masters, where the 2018 champion of Augusta finished solo third. He added a top-25 finish at the U.S. Open but failed to miss the cut at the PGA Championship and The Open Championship. Reed was middle of the pack in accuracy off the tee and in his putting game in LIV, but his strong approach play to the green consistently kept him in contention for top-10 finishes. He'll be a sneaky contender in each of the four majors during the 2026 season provided he can stay inside the top 50 in the OWGR. |
| 182 | Rafael Campos (E) | 37 | 27 | $216,757 | $450,000 | Campos made just 9-of-31 cuts in 2025 with a best finish of T34. The good news is that he will still have full status in 2026 by virtue of his victory at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship back in the fall of 2024. That said, there isn't much to hang your hat on here. Campos was the fourth-worst qualified golfer in terms of SG: Total and lost strokes in every category. He shouldn't be on the radar in salary cap leagues. |
| 183 | Carson Young (N) | 31 | 23 | $1,060,007 | $425,000 | Young just missed out on nabbing conditional status for 2026 at 129th in the FedExCup Fall standings. He did have five top-20 finishes, but three of them came at alternate-field events. Young's ball striking last season was solid at 19th in driving accuracy, 36th in GIR percentage and 40th in proximity. That said, the short game and putting needs a lot of work to produce some better results. Young will likely play some events on the PGA Tour, but his primary focus will probably be trying to get full status back through the Korn Ferry Tour. |
| 184 | Taylor Montgomery (N) | 30 | 19 | $824,353 | $410,000 | Montgomery proved again why he is one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, as he ranked second in SG: Putting, third in putts per GIR and first in one-putt percentage. That said, 171st in SG: Off-the-Tee and 148th in SG: Approach is just not going to get the job done. Montgomery was only 138th in the FedExCup Fall standings, so it's unclear how much he will be able to play on the PGA Tour in 2026. He might be better off trying to regain full status through the Korn Ferry Tour. |
| 185 | Zach Johnson (E) | 49 | 16 | $918,478 | $400,000 | Johnson played in 17 events in 2025 which is a pretty healthy number for a man nearing the age of 50. He had just three top-25s, but one of them was a T8 at The Masters. It's unclear how much Johnson will play in 2026 because he finished 141st in the FedExCup Fall standings. Johnson was 155th in SG: Tee-to-Green, but 15th in SG: Putting. He will be in The Masters and The Open Championship next season as a past champion. |
| 186 | Tom McKibbin (L) | 22 | 2 | $40,674 | $350,000 | The Northern Irishman and Rory McIlroy prodigy jumped ship to the LIV Golf League in 2025, joining Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Caleb Surratt on Legion XIII. McKibbin finished 20th in the individual season standings and was one of the most consistent performers in his debut season, finishing in the top 15 in seven LIV Golf tournaments (including T5 and T4 finishes in Dallas and Andalucia, respectively). He was ranked in the top-third of the field across most statistical categories, though his putting game (1.62 putts per hole - T43) is an area he'll need to improve on to be in true contention for a tournament title. McKibbin finished T50 at the PGA Championship before missing the cut at The Open in 2025. His dominant victory at the Hong Kong Open in November will secure him a spot at The Masters for the first time in 2026. McKibbin is also exempt for The Open Championship. |
| 187 | Carlos Ortiz (L) | 34 | 2 | $878,815 | $300,000 | Ortiz's performance during the 2025 LIV Golf league established him as a top-10 player in the breakaway tour. He wasn't able to win a tournament as he did in 2024 at LIV Golf Houston, but he finished in the top 10 in six tournaments (including four top-5 performances) while ranking in the top 15 in the field in GIR, driving distance, birdies made and putts per hole. Ortiz qualified for two of the four major championships in 2025, and while he failed to make the cut at The Open, he played himself into contention at the U.S. Open Championship before finishing tied for fourth. Thanks to his performance at Oakmont, Ortiz is guaranteed a spot in both The Masters and the U.S. Open in 2026 and will look to earn qualification to the PGA Championship and The Open. |
| 188 | Cameron Smith (L) | 32 | 4 | $0 | $200,000 | The 2025 season was incredibly disappointing for the Ripper GC captain. While he finished 18th in the LIV Golf individual season standings, he was never in true contention in any of those tournaments outside of his T5 performance in Mexico City. Worse for Smith was that he failed to make the cut in any of the four majors, and a lot of his issues stemmed from off the tee (47th in the LIV Golf league with a 51.79 percent driving accuracy). Smith's putting and short game should make him a consistent performer at any tournament, but he won't enter serious contention until he fixes his issues with his driver. Smith will be exempt for the four majors in 2026, but he missed the cut in all of them last season. |
| 189 | Dustin Johnson (L) | 41 | 4 | $138,040 | $175,000 | It was a slow start to the 2025 season for the 4Aces GC captain, but he managed to get on track to end the year with five top-10 finishes at LIV Golf tournaments, including a solo third at LIV Golf Indianapolis in what ended up being his best performance of the year. Johnson wasn't much better in the majors, missing the cut at The Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open before finishing things off with a T23 performance at The Open. The two-time major champion will be in the field for the Masters and U.S. Open in 2026, though long gone are the days in which Johnson is considered a threat in the majors. |
| 190 | David Puig (L) | 23 | 1 | $27,014 | $150,000 | Puig has demonstrated steady improvement in the LIV Golf league since joining in 2022. He finished in the top 10 of the individual season standings in 2025, thanks in large part to his three fourth-place finishes (LIV Golf Adelaide, Singapore and Indianapolis), and he earned points in all 12 tournaments he participated in. Puig's accuracy off the tee left plenty to be desired (55.21 percent driving accuracy, 39th in the field), though he finished in the top 5 in driving distance and putts per hole, and in the top 11 in the field in scrambling opportunities and birdies made. Puig's lone major appearance in 2025 came at the PGA Championship (T60), and improved accuracy off the tee would make him a darkhorse pick in the 2026 major tournaments were he to qualify. |
| 191 | Sergio Garcia (L) | 45 | 3 | $111,444 | $125,000 | Garcia got off to a blazing start to the 2025 LIV Golf season with three top-6 finishes, including a victory at LIV Golf Hong Kong for his second win on the breakaway tour. His early efforts also helped his Fireballs GC squad to three consecutive team victories. However, that's where Garcia's success for the LIV Golf season ended, as he had just one more top-10 finish (T10 in Andalucia), while his Fireballs team had just three more podium finishes. He was unable to make the cut at The Masters, but did so at the PGA Championship (T67) and The Open (T34), though he wasn't in serious contention in either of those tournaments. Garcia's best days may be behind him, but the 2017 Masters champion will be at Augusta National in 2026 and should qualify for at least one more major tournament. |
| 192 | Laurie Canter (L) | 36 | 7 | $99,133 | $100,000 | Canter will be returning to LIV Golf in 2026 in a somewhat surprising move after he had earned a PGA Tour card as the No. 2 finishing player in the Race to Dubai standings who was not otherwise exempt. Canter notched five top-3 finishes on the DP World Tour in 2025, including at the season finale in Dubai. The Englishman played LIV events during their first three years, starting with Cleeks GC and then moving on as a reserve player. The ony major Canter is exempt for in 2026 is the Open Championship. |
| 193 | Bubba Watson (L) | 46 | 1 | $336,000 | $80,000 | Watson's spot in the LIV Golf league looked to be in jeopardy after the RangeGoats GC captain was relegated following his dreadful 2024 season. The organization opted to keep Watson on the team, and the crafty lefty responded with a bounceback 2025 campaign. After just one top-15 finish in 2024, he had five such finishes in 2025 (highlighted by a T4 finish at LIV Golf Virginia and a solo second in the United Kingdom), and he finished in the top 16 in the field in birdies made, driving accuracy and distance and GIR. As The Masters champion in 2012 and 2014, Watson will be at Augusta National in 2026, though he hasn't appeared in any of the other three majors in each of the last three years. |
| 194 | Phil Mickelson (L) | 55 | 4 | $42,333 | $75,000 | Mickelson entered 2025 off the cusp of a disappointing 2024 campaign in which he had just one top-10 finish in LIV Golf (T6 in Jeddah) and failed to accrue points in 10 of 13 tournaments in the breakaway league. The 2025 season was a much better season for the crafty lefty, who finished in the top 6 in three LIV Golf tournaments (including a solo third in Hong Kong and T4 finish in Virginia). However, Mickelson wasn't able to carry that form into the majors and made the cut only at The Open Championship (T56). Mickelson will no longer be exempt for the U.S. Open starting in 2026, but he will be in the field for the other three majors. You can never count the six-time major champion out of it, as evidenced by his T2 finish at The Masters in 2023. |
| 195 | Charl Schwartzel (L) | 41 | 1 | $101,063 | $70,000 | Much like the 2024 season, Schwartzel was an inconsistent performer in the LIV Golf league, but he still managed to finish in the Lock Zone (top-24) of the individual standings thanks in large part to his solo second at LIV Golf Miami. The South African was middle of the back in driving accuracy and in his approach game, though he finished the season as the league's best putter and one of the top scramblers. The 2011 Masters champion made the cut at Augusta National in 2025 (T36), and that will likely be the only major tournament that Schwartzel will play in 2026. |
| 196 | Louis Oosthuizen (L) | 43 | 1 | $0 | $60,000 | A first LIV Golf tournament win continued to allude Oosthuizen in 2025, with his T2 finish in Dallas being the closest he got to earning an individual trophy. He failed to accrue points in eight of 13 LIV Golf tournaments and finished outside of the Lock Zone in 30th, which is a sharp decline from his 2024 performance (sixth). Oosthuizen finished in the top 3 in the LIV Golf field in driving accuracy and in the top 20 in GIR and scrambling opportunities, but he wasn't able to convert on his opportunities on the green (1.61 putts per hole - T38). The Stinger GC captain failed to make the cut at The Open Championship, and that will likely be the only major Oosthuizen enters in 2026, given that he won the event in 2010. |
| 197 | Marc Leishman (L) | 41 | 2 | $134,958 | $50,000 | The 2025 season was inconsistent for Leishman who, despite finishing T30 or worse in five of 13 LIV Golf tournaments, still managed to finish 13th in the individual standings in large part due to his maiden victory at LIV Golf Miami. Leishman made the cut in both of his major appearances in 2025 (T38 at the U.S. Open and T52 at The Open Championship), but he will need to qualify for the major tournaments in 2026. The Australian's approach play has been excellent and will keep him in the mix in both tournaments, but his accuracy off the tee is an area he'll need to address in order to string together more consistent outings. |
| 198 | Victor Perez (L) | 33 | 25 | $1,341,741 | $45,000 | Perez put together a solid season on the PGA Tour that included eight top-25 finishes. The big news for Perez is that instead of returning for another season on the PGA Tour he has signed a deal with join Cleeks GC for the 2026 LIV Golf season. The Frenchman played in the PGA Championship (MC) and the U.S. Open (T19) last season. Perez is not currently exempt for any majors in 2026 and will have to battle to qualify for them. |
| 199 | Henrik Stenson (L) | 49 | 1 | $51,186 | $40,000 | It was another disappointing season for Stenson, who accumulated points in just three of 13 LIV Golf tournaments. He was in the final spot in the individual standings that would have kept him safe from relegation heading into the final LIV Golf tournament in Indianapolis, but he finished in T27 and slipped into the Drop Zone, which means he won't be a part of the LIV Golf league in 2026 unless he gets back in through the Promotional event, or is invited to return by Majesticks GC or another team. Stenson's lone major appearance in 2025 was at The Open (T45), and given he won that tournament in 2016, that will likely be the only major he will play in 2026. |
| 200 | Richard Bland (L) | 52 | 2 | $75,423 | $0 | Bland enjoyed a renaissance season of sorts in 2024, with the Englishman winning both the Senior U.S. Open Championship and the Senior PGA Championship while accruing points in 12 of 13 LIV Golf tournaments. He wasn't as consistent in 2025, barely missing the Lock Zone (top 24 of the LIV Golf individual season standings) while posting three top-10 finishes (including a solo fifth at LIV Golf Adelaide). Bland's Senior victories earned him a spot in the respective majors, where he made the cut at the PGA Championship (T37 finish) but not the U.S. Open. Bland doesn't have the driving distance to excel on long courses, but his accuracy off the tee and his proficiency on the greens makes him a longshot contender in any tournament he's in the field for. Bland is not currently exempt for any majors in 2026. |
| 201 | Dean Burmester (L) | 36 | 2 | $41,100 | $0 | Burmester finished fifth in the LIV Golf individual season standings in 2025 thanks to his four top-5 finishes (including a victory at LIV Golf Chicago, when he outlasted Jon Rahm and Jose Ballester on the first playoff hole). Burmester's accuracy off the tee (46th in LIV Golf at 51.96 percent) was his one major weakness, as he finished in the top-12 in birdies made, driving distance, putting and GIR. He missed the cut at the PGA Championship before finishing T61 at The Open in 2025. He will need to earn his way into major tournaments in 2026 through qualifying events or strong play in the breakaway league. |
| 202 | Lucas Herbert (L) | 29 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Herbert locked his spot in the 2026 LIV Golf season after finishing 15th in the individual season standings in 2025. All of his hard work came in the first half of the season, when he accrued points in six of the first seven LIV Golf tournaments, with his T2 finish in Mexico City highlighted by his 10-under final round. However, Herbert wasn't able to maintain that momentum the rest of the way, finishing 30th or worse in five of the final six events of the season. Much of Herbert's struggles came with his accuracy off the tee (54.82 percent driving accuracy - 41st) and in his approach game (T41 with a 62.92 percent GIR), but fixing those issues would make him a regular contender given his putting proficiency (1.55 putts per hole - T3). The Australian failed to make the cut at The Open Championship and will have to earn his way into each of the four major tournaments in 2026 through qualifying events or strong play in the LIV Golf league. |
| 203 | Martin Kaymer (L) | 40 | 1 | $0 | $0 | The Cleeks GC captain showed minor improvement in 2025, finishing 37th in the LIV Golf individual season standings compared to 40th in 2024. He failed to accrue points in nine of 13 LIV Golf tournaments (including six of the first seven events of the season), but balanced that out somewhat with two top-10 finishes. Kaymer failed to make the cut at the PGA Championship in 2025, and that will likely be the only major he enters in 2026 given his exemption thanks to his victory in 2010 (his exemption into the U.S. Open after winning in 2014 expired). |
| 204 | Adrian Meronk (L) | 31 | 4 | $45,238 | $0 | The 2025 season looked to be Meronk's to grasp after he won the opening LIV Golf tournament in Riyadh in convincing fashion. He followed that up with a T12 finish at LIV Golf Adelaide, but finished T29 or worse in each of the next seven tournaments, with his inaccuracy off the tee (49th in driving accuracy) proving to be his kryptonite. He ended the LIV Golf season nicely with three top-15 finishes over the last four tournaments, and despite his inconsistencies he finished in the top 20 of the individual standings for a second straight year. Meronk has played in each of the last nine major championships, but has missed the cut in five of them. He isn't currently exempt for any majors in 2026. |
| 205 | Tiger Woods (E) | 50 | 0 | $0 | $0 | The 15-time major champion did not tee it up once on the PGA Tour in 2025 due to a back and Achilles injury. Woods played in a few different TGL matches on a simulator, but that was about it. His ruptured Achilles in March while trying to gear up to play in The Masters was a big setback, and he suffered another in October when he underwent back surgery. Given the rehab for both of those injuries and the fact that he will turn 50 in late December, there is a real question as to what the future holds on the PGA Tour for the Hall-of-Famer. Given that TGL starts in late December, there's also a question as to whether or not he will even be able to play in Season 2 of his new golf league. Considering all his experience around Augusta National, that's the one place he probably still feels like he can compete with the best. It might be a stretch to play real life golf in April, but that's what he will be targeting going in 2026. |
