Eleven more golfers have qualified for the 2012 Masters by finishing in the year-end Top 50 issued on Monday.
Jim Furyk, the 2003 US Open winner, was among the last group to secure his place in this way, qualifying for a 17th consecutive Augusta National Golf Club invitation next April by edging into the list at 50th in the world.
Also sneaking in at 49th was Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, while Japan's Ryo Ishikawa just missed making the Masters field, finishing at 51st in the year-end rankings.
England's Ian Poulter, qualified at 16th in the rankings, after his victory on Sunday at the Australian Masters as did fellow Brits Simon Dyson, who was 28th on the final list for 2011 and Paul Casey, who was 20th.
Others adding the Masters to their 2012 travel plans included South Koreans Kim Kyung-Tae at 25th and Bae Sang-Moon at 30th, Spain's Alvaro Quiros at 22nd and Miguel Angel Jimenez at 44th, American Rickie Fowler at 32nd and Italian Francesco Molinari at 41st.
There aren’t many ways left to qualify for the Masters, hopeful participants will have to winning a PGA event not staged opposite a World Golf Championships tournament in the first three months of 2012, or reach the rankings top 50 after the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which is staged two weeks before the Masters.
Among those seeking a side door to the Augusta National are South African stars Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, both two-time US Open champions. Els has made 18 consecutive Masters starts, and also has a British Open title on his CV, but slipped from the year-end top 50 for the first time since 1993 by standing 56th in the final list, three spots beneath Goosen.
