World's top 100 confirmed for USPGA

The world's top 100 golfers are all scheduled to take part in the 96th USPGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky

The 18th hole at Valhalla
The world's top 100 will all take part in the 2014 USPGA Championship for the first time in Major history
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The world's top 100 golfers are all scheduled to take part in the 96th USPGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky

The world's top 100 golfers are all scheduled to take part in the 96th USPGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky.

No Major Championship field has ever comprised every player from the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking, or equivalent ranking structure.

As it stands, there are 154 players in the field. These include defending champion Jason Dufner, Tiger Woods and Open Champion Rory McIlroy, along with 20 of the USA's top club professionals.

The PGA Professionals qualified via the PGA Professional National Championship, which took place last month in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Click here to see the current USPGA Championship field.

There are still two spaces up for grabs - for the winner of this week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (if not already qualified) and Barracuda Championship (if not already qualified).

As it stands, the field includes 29 past Major Champions, 84 players from the USA and 70 international golfers representing 24 countries, from Australia to Japan.

The 2014 USPGA Championship takes place at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky from August 7-10.

The par-71 layout last staged the PGA Championship in 2000, when Tiger Woods defeated Bob May in a play-off to claim his fifth major championship.

Nick Bonfield
Nick Bonfield
Features Editor

Nick Bonfield joined Golf Monthly in 2012 after graduating from Exeter University and earning an NCTJ-accredited journalism diploma from News Associates in Wimbledon. He is responsible for managing production of the magazine, sub-editing, writing, commissioning and coordinating all features across print and online. Most of his online work is opinion-based and typically centres around the Majors and significant events in the global golfing calendar. Nick has been an avid golf fan since the age of ten and became obsessed with the professional game after watching Mike Weir and Shaun Micheel win The Masters and PGA Championship respectively in 2003. In his time with Golf Monthly, he's interviewed the likes of Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Jose Maria Olazabal, Henrik Stenson, Padraig Harrington, Lee Westwood and Billy Horschel and has ghost-written columns for Westwood, Wayne Riley, Matthew Southgate, Chris Wood and Eddie Pepperell. Nick is a 12-handicap golfer and his favourite courses include Old Head, Sunningdale New, Penha Longha, Valderrama and Bearwood Lakes. If you have a feature pitch for Nick, please email nick.bonfield@futurenet.com with 'Pitch' in the subject line. Nick is currently playing: Driver: TaylorMade M1 Fairway wood: TaylorMade RBZ Stage 2 Hybrid: Ping Crossover Irons (4-9): Nike Vapor Speed Wedges: Cleveland CBX Full Face, 56˚, Titleist Vokey SM4, 60˚ Putter: testing in progress! Ball: TaylorMade TP5x

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