The Players Amateur selection committee uses the following criteria to select contestants.
1 - Past Players Amateur Champions
2 - Walker Cup Team Members (Past and Present)
3 - World Amateur Team (Past and Present)
4 - Palmer Cup Team (Last Two Teams)
USA
EUROPE
5 - Past Champions; U.S. Amateur, British Amateur, U.S. Mid-Amateur, U.S. Pub-Links
U.S. Amateur
British Amateur
U.S. Mid-Amateur
U.S. Pub-Links
6 - Past Quarter Finalist; U.S. Amateur, British Amateur, U.S. Mid-Amateur, U.S. Pub-Links (Last 3 Years)
7 - U.S. Open Participant (Current and Previous Year)
8 - Current Australian National Team
9 - top 75 U.S. SPWAR ranking (as of April 15th)
10 - top 100 world ranking by SPWAR (as of April 15th)
11 - Top 10 NCAA Finals (Current Year)
12 - South Carolina Player of the year
13 - Jr. Heritage Champion
14 - Hilton Head Amateur Champion
15 - Berkeley Hall Men’s Club Champion
16 - top 5 from Terra Cotta, Sunnehanna, Southern, Northeast, Jones Cup (Current year)
17 - top 5 from Sunnehanna, Southern, Northeast, Porter Cup (previous year)
18 - Winner and Runner-up from the following tournaments (previous year)
Dixie Amateur
Azalea Amateur
Terro Cotta
Southeastern
Southwestern
Dogwood
Sahalle
Rice Planters
Pacific Northwest
Eastern
Monroe
Cardinal
Jones Cup
NEC Masters of the Amateur
Scratch Players
19 - Quarter Finalist - Western
20 - North South - Semi Finalist
21 - Top 5 from previous years ncaa's finals
22 - top 20 previous year players amateur
23 - Top 5 AJGA Rankings (as of April 15th)
24 - USCB Golfer with low Aggregate Score
25 - IJGT Champion
26 - IJGA Champion
27 - Coleman (Winners of the Last 3 years)
28 - Crane Cup (Winners of the Last 3 years)
29 - Winner and Runner-up from the Azalea Amateur (Current year)
30 - Committee selections
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