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Updated at 6:53 a.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Dean Wilson, Casey Watabu in Masters field

Associated Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 97 players who have qualified and are expected to compete in the 71st Masters, to be played April 5 to 8 at Augusta National Golf Club (players listed in only one category):

Masters champions: Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mark O'Meara, Ben Crenshaw, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples, Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Seve Ballesteros, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Gary Player, Raymond Floyd.

U.S. Open champions (five years): Geoff Ogilvy, Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen, Jim Furyk.

British Open champions (five years): Todd Hamilton, Ben Curtis, Ernie Els.

PGA champions (five years): Shaun Micheel, Rich Beem.

Players Championship (three years): Stephen Ames, Fred Funk.

U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up: Richie Ramsay, John Kelly.

British Amateur champion: Julien Gerrier.

U.S. Amateur Public Links champion: Casey Watabu.

U.S. Mid-Amateur champion: Dave Womack.

Top 16 players and ties from 2006 Masters: Tim Clark, Chad Campbell, Angel Cabrera, Stewart Cink, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Arron Oberholser, Billy Mayfair, Scott Verplank, Rod Pampling.

Top eight players and ties from 2006 U.S. Open: Colin Montgomerie, Padraig Harrington, Nick O'Hern, Jeff Sluman, Steve Stricker, Kenneth Ferrie.

Top four players and ties from 2006 British Open: Chris DiMarco.

Top four players and ties from 2006 PGA Championship: Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Luke Donald.

Top 40 players from the 2006 PGA Tour money list: Trevor Immelman, Stuart Appleby, Brett Wetterich, David Toms, Rory Sabbatini, Davis Love III, Carl Pettersson, Brett Quigley, Dean Wilson, Lucas Glover, Joe Durant, Zach Johnson, K.J. Choi, J.J. Henry, Tom Pernice Jr., Vaughn Taylor, Troy Matteson, Tim Herron, Camilo Villegas, Jerry Kelly.

Top 50 players from the final 2006 world ranking: Henrik Stenson, David Howell, Paul Casey, Shingo Katayama, Robert Karlsson, Yong-Eun Yang, Ian Poulter, Darren Clarke, Jeev Milkha Singh, Ben Crane, Niclas Fasth, Thomas Bjorn, Robert Allenby, Johan Edfors, Lee Westwood, Bradley Dredge.

Top 10 players from the 2007 PGA Tour money list on March 26: Charles Howell III, John Rollins, Aaron Baddeley, Mark Calcavecchia.

Top 50 players from world ranking published March 26: Justin Rose, Bart Bryant, Paul Goydos.

Special foreign invitation: Hideto Tanihara.

Dean Wilson and Casey Watabu are from Hawai'i