How Did They Qualify?

A look at how some of the unexpected names in this year's field qualified for the 2011 Masters.

A glance down the Masters field reveals plenty of usual suspects but also a fair sprinkling of players which prompt the response "how did he qualify?" Here's how some of the unexpected names on the list got in. Jason Bohn (USA) Qualification: Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters. Bohn won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans two months after last year's Masters. Alex Cejka (Germany) Qualification: The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year's US Open Championship. Cejka finished tied eighth at Pebble Beach to book just his second Masters appearance and first since 2004. David Chung (USA) Qualification: Came runner-up to the current US Amateur Champion. Chung lost 4 & 2 to Peter Uihlein in the 36-hole final. He was a member of the victorious US Team at the 2010 Palmer Cup (won four matches out of four) and finished 2010 as the number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Hiroyuki Fujita (Japan) Qualification: The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. The 41-year-old, a two-time winner on the Japan Tour in 2010, was 48th when the final 2010 list came out on December 31st. Gregory Havret (France) Qualification: The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year's US Open Championship. Havret was runner-up to Graeme McDowell at Pebble Beach. Yuta Ikeda (Japan) Qualification: The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. The 25-year-old rising star was 41st on the final list after racking up no less than four wins on the Japan Tour in 2010. He was also a four-time winner in 2009. Jin Jeong (Korea) Qualification: Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year). The Melbourne-based South Korean won the British Amateur in late June by beating Scotland's James Byrne 5 & 4 in the 36-hole final at Muirfield. He then went on to win the Silver Medal for top amateur in the Open at St Andrews. Jerry Kelly (USA) Qualification: The first 16 players, including ties, in the previous year's Masters Tournament. Kelly finished tied 12th at Augusta last year Kyung-Tae Kim (Korea) Qualification: The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. The 24-year-old won three times on the Japan Tour in 2010 and also made the cut in the final two majors of 2010. He ended the year ranked 29th in the world, just one spot behind Rickie Fowler. Lion Kim (USA) Qualification: Current US Amateur Public Links Champion. The Korean-American's full name is Jun Min Kim but he was given the nickname "Lion" by his parents. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links at Bryan Park in Greensboro, North Carolina. Martin Laird (Scotland) Qualification: Those qualifying for the previous year's season-ending Tour Championship. He would also have got in by being one of the 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. Laird finished right on the number in 50th. Davis Love III (USA) Qualification: The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year's US Open Championship. Love secured his first return to The Masters since 2007 by finishing tied sixth at Pebble Beach. Steve Marino (USA) Qualification: The first 16 players, including ties, in the previous year's Masters Tournament. Marino, despite a double bogey at the 72nd hole, finished tied 14th on his Augusta debut. Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) Qualification: Current Asian Amateur Champion. The 18-year-old came through a 118-man field to win the event, played in a strokeplay format, by five shots. He will become the first Japanese amateur to play in the Masters Tournament. Larry Mize (USA) Qualification: Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime). A reminder that winning the green jacket secures you a place in the tournament for as long as you want. Mize won his Masters in dramatic style, holing a chip from off the green at the 11th to beat Greg Norman in a play-off in 1987. Kevin Na (USA) Qualification: Those qualifying for the previous year's season-ending Tour Championship. Na made the 30-man field at the Tour Championship, the final event of the FedEx Cup play-offs, by jumping from 41st to 20th in the rankings with a tied third place in the BMW Championship. Carl Pettersson (Sweden) Qualification: Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters. The Swede made it into his fourth Masters by winning the RBC Canadian Open in July. Alvaro Quiros (Spain) Qualification: The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. Quiros squeezed in by finishing 49th on the final list of 2010. This will be the monster hitter's debut at Augusta. Heath Slocum (USA) Qualification: The 30 leaders on the Final Official PGA Tour Money List for the previous calendar year. A late-season win in The McGladrey Classic helped Slocum finish right on the number in 30th. Nathan Smith (USA) Qualification: Current US Mid-Amateur Champion. Smith won the US Mid-Amateur for a record-tying third time - and hence secured a third trip to Augusta - with a 7 & 5 victory over Tim Hogarth in the final match at Atlantic Golf Club.in September. Brandt Snedeker (USA) Qualification: The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year's US Open Championship. Snedeker shot the joint lowest back nine of the final round to finish tied eighth in the US Open at Pebble Beach. Kevin Streelman (USA) Qualification: Those qualifying for the previous year's season-ending Tour Championship. Streelman made a dramatic jump up the FedEx rankings with a tied third place in the Barclays and then hung on in the final two play-off events to finish 29th and make the 30-man Tour Championship field. Peter Uihlein (USA) Qualification: Current US Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year). He celebrated his 21st birthday in Augusta by beating David Chung 4 & 2 in the 36-hole final in Washington. Dad Wally is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Acushnet Company, the the parent company behind Titleist.