Jason Day qualifies for the 2023 Masters despite losing to Scottie Scheffler at the WGC Dell Match Play
Jason Day initially did not receive the invitation to the Masters, but luckily this coming Monday, March 27, he will have another reason to celebrate.
The Australian golfer will receive an invitation as he enters the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings. He qualifies for the tournament by the 19th eligibility criteria released by the officials.
Day gave stiff competition to Scottie Scheffler at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play but lost in the quarterfinals. However, his performance helped him qualify for the Masters.
Based on projections from the Official World Golf Rankings, he will make it to Augusta this year. Besides Day, the other players who are now officially eligible for the Masters are Min Woo Lee, Keith Mitchell, and Harris English.
Jason Day was ranked 112th towards the end of 2022 but has made impressive progress in the last three months to reach No. 37 in the world rankings. The Masters field is almost full, giving next week's Valero Texas Open winner the only path to join the players at Augusta.
Golfers who qualified for the 2023 Masters so far
- Abraham Ancer
- Sam Bennett
- Keegan Bradley
- Sam Burns
- Patrick Cantlay
- Ben Carr
- Cameron Champ
- Corey Conners
- Fred Couples
- Harrison Crowe
- Jason Day
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Harris English
- Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira
- Tony Finau
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Ryan Fox
- Sergio Garcia
- Talor Gooch
- Brian Harman
- Tyrrell Hatton, 18
- Russell Henley
- Kazuki Higa
- Tom Hoge
- Max Homa
- Billy Horschel
- Viktor Hovland
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Sungjae Im
- Dustin Johnson
- Zach Johnson
- Si Woo Kim
- Tom Kim
- Chris Kirk
- Kevin Kisner
- Kurt Kitayama
- Brooks Koepka
- Jason Kokrak
- Bernhard Langer
- K.H. Lee
- Min Woo Lee
- Shane Lowry
- Sandy Lyle
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Matthew McClean
- Rory McIlroy
- Adrian Meronk
- Phil Mickelson
- Keith Mitchell
- Larry Mize
- Francesco Molinari
- Taylor Moore
- Collin Morikawa
- Kevin Na
- Joaquin Niemann
- Alex Noren
- Jose Maria Olazabal
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Mito Pereira
- Thomas Pieters
- J.T. Poston
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Seamus Power
- Jon Rahm
- Patrick Reed
- Justin Rose
- Gordon Sargent
- Xander Schauffele
- Scottie Scheffler
- Charl Schwartzel
- Adam Scott
- Vijay Singh
- Cameron Smith
- Jordan Spieth
- Scott Stallings
- Sepp Straka
- Adam Svensson
- Sahith Theegala
- Justin Thomas
- Harold Varner III
- Bubba Watson
- Mike Weir
- Danny Willett
- Aaron Wise
- Gary Woodland
- Tiger Woods
- Cameron Young
- Will Zalatoris
- Tommy Aaron
- Jack Burke, Jr.
- Angel Cabrera
- Charles Coody
- Ben Crenshaw
- Nick Faldo
- Raymond Floyd
- Trevor Immelman
- Jack Nicklaus
- Mark O'Meara
- Gary Player
- Craig Stadler
- Tom Watson
- Ian Woosnam
- Fuzzy Zoeller
How to qualify for The Masters in 2023?
- 1: Masters winners (lifetime)
- 2: U.S. Open winners (five years)
- 3: The Open championship winners (five years)
- 4: PGA championship winners (five years)
- 5: Players championship winners (three years)
- 6: Olympic gold medalist
- 7: U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
- 8: British Amateur champion
- 9: Asia-Pacific Amateur champion
- 10: U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
- 11: Latin America Amateur champion
- 12: First 12 players, including ties, in the last year's Masters
- 13: First 4 players, including ties, in the last year's U.S. Open
- 14: First 4 players, including ties, in last year's Open Championship
- 15: First 4 players, including ties, in last year's PGA Championship
- 16: Winners of PGA Tour regular-season and playoff events
- 17: Qualifiers from the previous year's season-ending Tour Championship
- 18: 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year
- 19: 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published a week prior to The Masters