Sam Burns, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, headlines PGA Tour's Valspar Championship

The PGA Tour is on a roll. After four designated events in five weeks, the American circuit will head to Tampa, Florida, for the Valspar Championship. The event, held at the Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course will be headlined by back-to-back defending champion Sam Burns.

The Valspar Championship, starting March 16, will have a prize purse of $8,100,000. Apart from Burns, other big names headlining the field include Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Webb Simpson, and Tommy Fleetwood. Set on the basis of the PGA Tour’s standardized system for determining event fields, the tour has now let out the final field for the same.

Following the ongoing Players Championship outing, the circuit will for to the Valspar Championship. The PGA Tour recently announced that it was taking the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play off of its schedule.

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Valspar Championship field

Here is the complete field for the Valspar Championship (As of Friday, March 11th):

Winner of PGA/U.S. Open Championship (five-year exemption)

• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Justin Thomas
• Gary Woodland

Winner of THE PLAYERS Championship (five-year exemption)

• Webb Simpson

Winner of Open Championship (five-year exemption)

• Jordan Spieth

Winner of World Golf Championships event (three-year exemption)

• Kevin Kisner

FedExCup Champion (five-year exemption)

• Justin Rose

PGA TOUR tournament winner (two-year exemption)

• Keegan Bradley
• Ryan Brehm
• Sam Burns
• Cameron Champ
• Stewart Cink
• Joel Dahmen
• Tyler Duncan
• Nico Echavarria
• Lucas Glover
• Jim Herman
• Garrick Higgo
• Martin Laird
• Andrew Landry
• K.H. Lee
• Luke List
• Trey Mullinax
• J.T. Poston
• Chad Ramey
• Chez Reavie
• Robert Streb
• Nick Taylor
• Michael Thompson
• Erik van Rooyen
• Richy Werenski

Career money exemption

• Jason Dufner
• Zach Johnson
• Ryan Moore
• Rory Sabbatini
• Jimmy Walker

Sponsor exemption (members not otherwise exempt)

• Luke Donald
• Dylan Wu

Sponsor exemption (unrestricted)

• Ludvig Aberg
• Pierceson Coody
• Cole Hammer
• Victor Perez

PGA Section Champion/Player of the Year

• Greg Koch

Top 30 on prior season's FedExCup

• Brian Harman

Top 125 on prior season's FedExCup

• Davis Riley
• Denny McCarthy
• Maverick McNealy
• Troy Merritt
• Adam Hadwin
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Taylor Moore
• Alex Smalley
• Wyndham Clark
• Lee Hodges
• Beau Hossler
• Brandon Wu
• Matthew NeSmith
• Adam Long
• Dylan Frittelli
• David Lipsky
• Adam Schenk
• Aaron Rai
• Stephan Jaeger
• Patrick Rodgers
• Russell Knox
• Kevin Streelman
• Mark Hubbard
• Peter Malnati
• Sam Ryder
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Nate Lashley
• James Hahn
• Greyson Sigg
• Callum Tarren
• Max McGreevy
• Chesson Hadley
• Doug Ghim
• Kevin Tway
• Matthias Schwab
• Patton Kizzire
• Kramer Hickok
• Matt Wallace
• Austin Smotherman
• Justin Lower
• Doc Redman
• Kelly Kraft

# Major medical extension

• Nick Hardy
• Kyle Stanley
• J.B. Holmes
• Zac Blair

Korn Ferry Tour Points winners (The 25 and The Finals 25)

• Justin Suh

Top-10 and ties from previous TOUR event

• Harry Higgs
• Cody Gribble
• John VanDerLaan
• Wesley Bryan
• Akshay Bhatia
• Carson Young
• Michael Kim
• Harry Hall

Korn Ferry Tour graduates via The 25 and The Finals 25 (reshuffled)

• Taylor Montgomery
• Ben Taylor
• Ben Griffin
• Tyson Alexander
• Robby Shelton
• S.H. Kim
• Joseph Bramlett
• Will Gordon
• Byeong Hun An
• David Lingmerth
• Harrison Endycott
• Erik Barnes
• Ryan Armour
• Eric Cole
• Ben Martin
• Zecheng Dou
• Paul Haley II
• Henrik Norlander
• Matti Schmid
• Brent Grant
• Austin Cook
• Samuel Stevens
• Austin Eckroat
• Carl Yuan
• Brian Stuard
• Brice Garnett
• Tano Goya
• Kyle Westmoreland
• MJ Daffue
• Augusto Núñez
• Scott Harrington
• Vincent Norrman
• Trevor Werbylo
• Trevor Cone
• Brandon Matthews
• Kevin Roy
• Michael Gligic
• Anders Albertson

Nos. 126-150 on prior season's FedExCup Points List (reshuffled)

• Andrew Novak

More details on the Valspar Championship, including the schedule and prize money, will be updated soon.