JERICHO, N.Y. (August 21, 2025) – David Pastore of The Golf Performance Center etched his name in MGA history with his win at the 110th Met Open Championship Presented by Callaway at the Meadow Brook Club, becoming the fourth player to win the MGA’s trio of Majors – Ike, Met Amateur, and Met Open – in their career.
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Pastore joins Jerry Courville Sr., George Zahringer III, and Johnson Wagner as the only winners of all three MGA Majors. Pastore won the Ike and the Met Amateur in 2014, leading him to Player of the Year honors the same year. On his resume are also two Met Junior titles (2006, ’09), and a Carter Cup victory (2008).
“It’s incredible,” said Pastore. “I won my first Met Junior when I was 14. I grew up on these golf courses and playing against this competition. To add my name to this trophy, I don’t think it has fully sunk in. I’m thrilled to be on it.”
In the final round on Thursday, Pastore carded a 1-under-par 70 to edge 2012 Met Amateur champion and current Korn Ferry Tour competitor Ryan McCormick of Suburban by one shot.
“This tournament means so much to me,” continued Pastore. “I almost let go of the idea that I would ever win this tournament because it means so much, and it is hard to win a tournament when you want it so badly.”
Pastore used two birdies and two bogeys to play his opening nine hole of the final round in even par.
Pastore shared, “On the front nine, I was playing solidly. I only had two mistakes, on six and seven. I tried to tell myself, using some experience, the winning score isn’t as low as you think it will be, and that you don’t have to play perfectly. I just tried to stay in it.”
As he turned to the final nine, Pastore made a pair of early birdies to make his move.
A birdie on the par-5 10th moved Pastore to 2-under par, while another birdie dropped on the par-4 12th, where he bombed his drive and stuck his 7-iron approach to 12 feet on what stood as one of the week’s toughest holes. His only blemish on the back nine came on No. 14 with a bogey on the par 4. While Pastore had opportunities to extend his lead with quality birdie looks on both Nos. 16 and 17, his attempts just slid by. A final look came on the par-5 18th, but a two-putt wrapped up his final round 70.
“After I birdied 12, that was when I knew it was game on because more people started following, and I was getting a little bit under par,” said Pastore. “Once I got under par with two more birdie holes coming in, I knew I was going to have a shot, and I was able to hold on.”
With Pastore in the clubhouse at 2-under, McCormick posed the biggest threat from competitors still on the course. McCormick had fallen to 1-over for the championship, but made back-to-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 to return to 1-under. McCormick, who made the cut in this year’s U.S. Open at Oakmont, stood one shot back with three to play. He got up and down to save par on the par-3 16th and despite finding a fairway bunker on the par-4 17th, gave himself a birdie chance after flying his shot to the back of the green and spinning it back toward the hole. The tying attempt didn’t drop, leaving him one back entering the final hole. On 18, McCormick found a greenside bunker after his drive finished in the left rough. He faced a 30-yard bunker shot to the back hole location. Though he found the right level of the green, his putt outside of 10 feet stayed high and placed him in the clubhouse at 1-under.
Playing in the final group, Nathan Han of Centennial had a final chance to tie Pastore, needing to hole out from nearly 70 yards to force a playoff. The amateur sent his approach to the back of the green and spun it back past the hole, securing the win for Pastore.
Han, who earned Low Amateur honors, finished tied for third at even par alongside 2024 champion Peter Ballo of The Connecticut Golf Club, Peter Bradbeer of Fishers Island, and Max Theodorakis of Ridgewood (Conn.).
Theodorakis moved to 2-under after making birdie on the par-3 ninth and par-5 10th. A pair of bogeys over his final four holes moved him back to even. Meanwhile, Bradbeer sat at 1-under coming down the stretch before a bogey on No. 17 dashed his chances.
Ballo stood a few groups in front of the leaders and posted a 2-under par final round to finish at even for the championship. Han was one shot off the lead at the start of the day. The 24-year-old went out in 3-over 38 before recording nine pars on the back nine.
Andre Chi of Deepdale held the lead at 4-under at the start of the day. Chi though carded a final-round 80 to finish in a tie for 15th.
The top 25 finishers are all exempt into the 111th Met Open Championship Presented by Callaway in 2026 at Essex County Country Club in West Orange, N.J. Pastore’s win grants him a lifetime exemption into the championship.
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