2002 WGC-American Express Championship

1. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 9 September

Robert Allenby (2), Stuart Appleby, Paul Azinger, Rich Beem (2), Thomas Bjørn (3), Ángel Cabrera (3), Mark Calcavecchia, Michael Campbell (3), Darren Clarke, José Cóceres, John Cook, Chris DiMarco (2), David Duval, Ernie Els (2,3), Bob Estes (2), Niclas Fasth (3), Brad Faxon (2), Fred Funk (2), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (2,3), Retief Goosen (2,3,5), Pádraig Harrington (3), Scott Hoch, Jerry Kelly (2), Bernhard Langer, Paul Lawrie (3), Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (2), Peter Lonard, Davis Love III (2), Steve Lowery (2), Shigeki Maruyama (2), Len Mattiace (2), Scott McCarron (2), Rocco Mediate (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Colin Montgomerie (3), Craig Parry (4), Kenny Perry (2), Nick Price (2), Chris Riley (2), Eduardo Romero (3), Justin Rose (3,5), Adam Scott (3), Vijay Singh (2), David Toms (2), Scott Verplank, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2)

2. Top 30 on the 2002 PGA Tour money list as of 9 September

Craig Perks, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Kevin Sutherland

3. Top 20 on the 2002 European Tour Order of Merit as of 9 September

Gary Evans, Anders Hansen, Søren Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Stephen Leaney, Carl Pettersson

4. Top 3 on the 2002 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit as of 9 September

Scott Laycock, Peter O'Malley

5. Top 3 on the 2001–02 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Tim Clark

6. Top 3 on the 2002 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 9 September

Kenichi Kuboya

• Nobuhito Sato and Toru Taniguchi did not play.

7. Winner of the 2001 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit

Thongchai Jaidee

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