Exemptions Categories (if otherwise eligible):
1. Individual Ike, Met Amateur and Met Open Champions from the last 5 years.
Ike Met Am Met Open
2025 Reed Greyserman Dean Greyserman David Pastore (P)
2024 Peicheng Chen (P) Donte Groppuso Peter Ballo (P)
2023 Melan Dhaubhadel (P) Josh German Dylan Newman (P)
2022 Luke Sample Brad Tilley Ryan Siegler (P)
2021 Matt Fields Garett Engel Andrew Svoboda (P)
2. USGA Champions and members of the Walker Cup team from the last 10 years.
3. Individual Ike and Met Amateur Champions prior to 1986.
4. Top 10 individual finishers in the 2025 Ike Championship.
Reed Greyserman
Mike Rothberg
Nathan Han
Jose Ramirez
Barnes Blake
Mark Costanza
Colin Summers
Dean Greyserman
Christian Cavaliere
Dean Muratore
5. Met Amateur Quarterfinalists from 2025.
Christian Cavaliere
Mark Costanza
Dean Greyserman
Jack Chung
Matthew Lowe
Drew Mulcahy
Reed Greyserman
Matt Rawitzer
6. 2025 Ike Team Champions.
Reed Greyserman Mark Costanza
7. Current Champion of the NJ Golf, WGA, NYC, NYSGA, CSGA, and LIGA Amateur and Open Championships by Sunday, June 21, 2026.
Amateur Open
NJ Golf
Mike Rothberg WGA June 15 - 16
NYC
NYSGA
CSGA
Joseph Dolezal LIGA June 9-11
8. Current MGA Public Links, Mid-Amateur, Junior, and Carter Cup Champions.
Public Links 18-Jun
Mid-Amateur Hunter Jones
Junior Jonathan Weinberg
Carter Cup Lucas Rizo-Patron
9. 2026 MGA Senior Amateur Champion.
10. Low Amateur in the 2025 Met Open Championship.
Nathan Han
11. Top 500 in the Men’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) at the time of entry.
Players must identify themselves at registration.
12. The 2025 MGA Player of the Year Honor Roll.
Christian Cavaliere
Matthew Lowe
Dean Greyserman
Reed Greyserman
Nathan Han
Barnes Blake
Mark Costanza
Adam Friedman
Darin Goldstein
Ben Mitchell
13. Top Five Leaders on the 2026 MGA Player of the Year list by Sunday, May 17, 2026.
14. The leader on the 2026 MGA Player of the Year list as of Friday, June 19, 2026.
15. A representative team (two players) from the Championship Host Club – Sleepy Hollow.
16. Special exemptions as determined by the MGA