The final field of 168 players for the PGA Tour Q-School presented by Korn Ferry includes 16 PGA Tour winners and 18 players with First Coast or South Georgia ties.
The 72-hole qualifier, with five PGA Tour cards at stake and varying degrees of Korn Ferry Tour status below that, will be Dec. 14-17. Each competitor will play two rounds each at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley and Sawgrass Country Club.
The list of past Tour winners is led by Sean O’Hair and Scott Piercy with four victories and Russell Knox of Ponte Vedra Beach, Patton Kizzire of St. Simons Island, Ga., Robert Streb and Fabian Gomez with two each.
Also in the field who have won on the PGA Tour in the past include Kevin Chappell, Austin Cook, Adam Long, Kevin Tway and Richy Werenski.
Other area players in the field are Bartram Trail graduate and past DP World Tour winner Julian Suri of St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra High graduate Taylor Funk, former University of Florida player and 2023 NCAA individual champion Fred Biondi, Baldwin graduate Dillon Board and former Jacksonville University player Raul Pereda.
What else is at stake at Q-School?
After the top five players, plus ties, the next 40 finishers and ties will earn exempt status through multiple reshuffles of the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season, with the first 25 finishers and ties being subject to the third reshuffle, and any remaining finishers within the category being subject to the second reshuffle
All remaining finishers will have Korn Ferry Tour membership, in addition to being exempt through the Latin America Swing of the 2024 PGA Tour Americas season
Can the public attend Q-School?
The rounds at Dye’s Valley are open to the public but not at Sawgrass, which is a private club and has limited parking.
Tickets are $5 each, with all proceeds donated to area charities. Tickets are available by visiting pgatourqschool.com/tickets.
Parking is free at the Valley Course.
How to watch PGA Tour Q-School on TV
The final two rounds will be aired on Golf Channel from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Dec. 16 and 1:30-4:30 p.m. on Dec. 17, with Shane Bacon as the host, James Nitties the analyst and Gary Christian as the on-course reporter. Emilia Migliaccio will do post-round interviews.
Live streaming on Golf Channel Digital and Peacock will be available prior to the Golf Channel coverage of the final two rounds.
Is there a purse for the Q-School?
It’s not Players Championship money but the winner will have a nice check for four days of work: $50,000 out of a $510,000 total purse.
To put that into perspective, Kevin Kisner earned $48,750 for finishing last in the 2023 Players. Winner Scottie Scheffler pulled down $4.5 million.
Who’s in the PGA Tour Q-School field?
Mason Andersen, Dawson Armstrong, Michael Arnaud.
Christian Banke, Erik Barnes, Zach Bauchou, Charlie Beljan, Sam Bennett, Fred Biondi, Chandler Blanchet, Ryan Blaum, Cody Blick, Dillon Board, Wesley Bryan, Connor Burgess, Marcus Byrd.
Yi Cao, Frankie Capan III, Brian Carlson, Ricky Castillo, Kevin Chappell, Alex Chiarella, Sam Choi, Erik Compton, Trevor Cone, Austin Cook, Patrick Cover, Joshua Creel, Myles Creighton, Brandon Crick, Trace Crowe, Quade Cummins.
M.J. Daffue, Reid Davenport, Ryan Davis, Cristobal Del Solar, Mickey DeMorat, Roberto Diaz, Taylor Dickson, Alistair Docherty, Cooper Dossey, Marty Dou, Brett Drewitt, Jared de Toit.
Blake Elliott, Harrison Endycott.
Jorge Fernandez-Valdes, Michael Feuerstein, Steve Fisk, Taylor Funk.
Brice Garnett, Ryan Gerard, Rhein Gibson, Thomas Giroux, Mark Goetz, Fabian Gomez, Noah Goodwin, Tanner Gore, Tano Goya, Brent Grant, Cody Gribble.
Shunyat Hak, Blaine Hale, Paul Haley II, Ryan Hall, Jeongwoo Ham, Chad Hambright, Brandon Harkins, Scott Harrington, Dylan Healey, Bryce Hendrix, Kramer Hickok, Caleb Hicks, Harry Higgs, Charlie Hillier, Grant Hirschman, Austin Hitt, Noah Hofman, Van Holmgren, Wes Homan, Thomas Horan, Connor Howe, Keenan Huskey.
Brendon Jelley, Carter Jenkins, Michael Johnson.
Jeffrey Kang, Sung Kang, Patton Kizzire, Russell Knox, David Kocher, Satoshi Kodaira, Kelly Kraft, Peter Kuest.
Davis Lamb, Hank Lebioda, Walker Lee, Tain Lee, Spencer Levin, K.K. Limbhasut, Adam Long, Luke Long, Thomas Longbella, John Lyras.
Stuart Macdonald, Nyasha Mauchaza, Logan McAllister, Matt McCarty, Max McGreevy, Callum McNeill, Blake McShea, Andre Metzger, Dylan Meyer, David Micheluzzi, William Mouw.
Keita Nakajima, James Nicholas, Bryson Nimmer, Seung-Yul Noh, Henrik Norlander, Augusto Nunez.
Sean O’Hair, Rob Oppenheim, Alvara Ortiz.
John Pak, Etienne Papineau, Jeremy Paul, Raul Pereda, Chris Petefish, Trent Phillips, Scott Piercy, Charles Porter, Aldrich Potgieter.
Spencer Ralston, Garrett Reband, Doc Redman, Kevin Roy.
Isaiah Salinda, Sam Saunders, Alex Schaake, Matthias Schwab, Chase Seiffert, Davis Shore, Austin Smotherman, Hayden Springer, Ross Steelman, Robert Streb, Jackson Suber, Daniel Summerhays, Julian Suri, James Swash.
Curtis Thompson, Braden Thornberry, Martin Trainer, Shad Tuten, Kevin Tway.
John VanDerLaan, Kevin Velo, Kristoff Ventura.
Danny Walker, Thomas Walsh, Trevor Werbylo, Richy Werenski, Kyle Westmoreland, Tim Widing, Trey Winstead.
Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
Carl Yuan.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Multiple PGA Tour winners Sean O’Hair, Russell Knox lead Q-School field