ELMSFORD, N.Y. (July 12, 2013) - The final field is set for the 96th Met Junior Championship Sponsored by MetLife as 64 of the Met Area’s finest junior golfers will take on Fairview Country Club in Greenwich, Conn. beginning on August 16. One of the strongest fields in recent history will compete for the nation’s oldest junior championship, which dates back to 1912.

     The field includes 2012 runner-up Will Bernstein of New York, N.Y., who will look to take home the trophy for himself this year. Bernstein, 17, played in this year’s Ike Championship and recently qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur, which will take place the week after the Met Junior.

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            Three of Bernstein’s fellow competitors in the Met Junior qualified for the U.S. Junior as well, including 2011 Carter Cup champion Cameron Young, 15, of Scarborough, N.Y., who is recovering from a shoulder injury that occurred earlier this season. Young was a member of the victorious 2012 Williamson Cup and 2013 Carey Cup teams. Norwalk’s Jacob Henny also qualified and just last week won the MGA/MetLife Public Links Championship by three strokes. Accomplished Christian Brothers Academy player Jeremy Wall, 17, of Brielle, N.J., was a semifinalist at last year’s Met Junior at Nissequogue Golf Club.

            Wall’s two CBA teammates will be joining him at Fairview, including his older brother, Lehigh University bound Ethan Wall and 2012 MGA/MetLife Boys runner-up Vincent Palazzolo, 16, of Colts Neck, N.J. The Wall brothers and Palazzolo helped lead their school to claim the state team title at the 2013 NJSIAA Tournament of Champions in May.

           Other past MGA champions in the field include two other past MGA/MetLife Boys Champions: Willis Huynh of Syosset, N.J. (2012) and Mark Reilly of Babylon, N.Y. (2009). Reilly advanced to the quarterfinals in this event last year and finished as runner-up in the 2012 MGA/MetLife Public Links Championship at Bethpage Black. 2012 Carter Cup winner Jared Mactas of Woodcliffe Lake, N.J., is also competing. A third talented member of a victorious Carey Cup team (2011) is Wake Forest bound Clancy Waugh of Quogue, N.Y.

     The Met Junior Sponsored by MetLife has a long history of having a highly competitive field, and the championship records are scattered with big names in both national and regional golf circles. From a starting field of 64, the field gets narrowed down in 18-hole matches for the three day event. The field is composed of juniors who have not yet turned 19 and who have not yet started college. The championship is preceeded by the MGA/MetLife Pro-Junior, in which the contestants team with Met Area golf professionals in competition and also have the opportunity to get an up-close look at the venue.

     Fairview Country Club, a Robert Trent Jones course, has been the host of the Met Open, Met Amateur, and the 2011 Ike Championship. This will be Fairview’s first Met Junior and the contrasting nines will be sure to challenge the juniors. Live scoring will be provided throughout the matches.