Players (male or female) may obtain a place by being fully exempt or by competing successfully in qualifying.

These top five money winners at the end of the 2006 season were awarded fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 2007 season.

Parnevik played the 2011 PGA Tour season on a fully exempt status for his Top 50 All-Time Earnings ranking.

The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2013 season.

In previous years, only the top five players received fully exempt cards while the next five receiving partial status.

However that was good enough to earn him fully exempt status on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.

Only the top 125 players on the final money list remained fully exempt members of the PGA Tour in 2008.

She won the Futures Tour Player of the Year award, which earned her fully exempt status on the LPGA for 2004.

His struggles were not over however and in 2008, he slipped outside the top 150 to lose his fully exempt status.

If necessary, a playoff is used to reduce the number of fully exempt players to 5.