2023 Valero Texas Open Full Field: Last Chance to Get Into the Masters
Few events on the PGA Tour can boast the history of the Valero Texas Open, which dates to 1922. Tip of the cap if you know that Bob McDonald won that first Texas Open at Brackenridge Park Golf Course.
The event is still going strong, returning to TPC San Antonio for a 90th edition, but the field is a bit compromised given its spot on the schedule.
Three of the previous four weeks on Tour have had big-money designated events, and next week is the season's first major at Augusta National. So that means most of the top players in the Masters field take the week off to rest and prepare. Only two players in the top 30 of the OWGR (and Sports Illustrated World Golf Ranking) were on the preliminary entry list for the Valero Texas Open: Tyrrell Hatton and Hideki Matsuyama.
But the winner this week gets a Masters invitation if not already eligible, and that would describe the vast majority of the field. Most notable is Rickie Fowler, who is here after failing to advance far enough at the WGC-Dell Match Play to get within the OWGR top-50 cutoff. Many fans at the Oaks Course will be pulling for him.
J.J. Spaun returns as the defending champion. The event has an $8.9 million purse with the winner earning $1,548,000.
2023 Valero Texas Open Full Field
144 players
An, Byeong Hun
Armour, Ryan
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Bhatia, Akshay +
Blair, Zac
Bramlett, Joseph
Buckley, Hayden
Carey, David *
Champ, Cameron
Chappell, Kevin
Cink, Stewart
Cole, Eric
Cone, Trevor
Conners, Corey
Coody, Pierceson +
Cook, Austin
Daffue, MJ
Davis, Cam
Detry, Thomas
Donald, Luke +
Dou, Zecheng
Dufner, Jason
Duncan, Tyler
Echavarria, Nico
Eckroat, Austin
Endycott, Harrison
Fowler, Rickie
Fox, Ryan +
Frittelli, Dylan
Garnett, Brice
Gerard, Ryan +
Ghim, Doug
Gligic, Michael
Glover, Lucas
Gordon, Will
Goya, Tano
Grant, Brent
Griffin, Ben
Griffin, Lanto
Grillo, Emiliano
Hadley, Chesson
Hahn, James
Haley II, Paul
Hall, Harry
Hammer, Cole +
Hardy, Nick
Harrington, Padraig +
Harrington, Scott
Hatton, Tyrrell
Herman, Jim
Hickok, Kramer
Higa, Kazuki +
Higgo, Garrick
Higgs, Harry
Hodges, Lee
Hoffman, Charley
Holmes, J.B.
Hossler, Beau
Hubbard, Mark
Kim, Michael
Kim, S.H.
Kim, Si Woo
Kirk, Chris
Kizzire, Patton
Knox, Russell
Kodaira, Satoshi
Kraft, Kelly
Kuchar, Matt
Kuest, Peter *
Laird, Martin
Landry, Andrew
Lansburgh, Peter *
Lashley, Nate
Lebioda, Hank
Lingmerth, David
List, Luke
Long, Adam
Love III, Davis
Lower, Justin
Malnati, Peter
Martin, Ben
Matsuyama, Hideki
Matthews, Brandon
McGreevy, Max
Merritt, Troy
Molinari, Francesco
Montgomery, Taylor
Moore, Ryan
Mueller, Jesse
Mullinax, Trey
NeSmith, Matthew
Noren, Alex
Norlander, Henrik
Norrman, Vincent
Novak, Andrew
Núñez, Augusto
Palmer, Ryan
Pendrith, Taylor
Phillips, Chandler +
Piercy, Scott
Putnam, Andrew
Rai, Aaron
Ramey, Chad
Reavie, Chez
Redman, Doc
Riley, Davis
Rodgers, Patrick
Roy, Kevin
Ryder, Sam
Schenk, Adam
Schmid, Matti
Schwab, Matthias
Shelton, Robby
Sigg, Greyson
Smalley, Alex
Smotherman, Austin
Spaun, J.J.
Stanley, Kyle
Stevens, Sam
Straka, Sepp
Streelman, Kevin
Stuard, Brian
Tarren, Callum
Taylor, Ben
Taylor, Nick
Thompson, Michael
Todd, Brendon
Truslow, Austen *
Tway, Kevin
van Rooyen, Erik
Walker, Jimmy
Wallace, Matt
Watney, Nick
Werbylo, Trevor
Werenski, Richy
Westmoreland, Kyle
Wood, JJ #
Wu, Brandon
Wu, Dylan
Young, Carson
Yuan, Carl
* - Open Qualifier
+ - Sponsor Exemption
# - Section Champion