| 117th Philadelphia Open Championship - Exemptions | |||
| First | Last | Exemption | |
| Dawson | Anders | 2 | 1. Top 20 Player of the Year - 2020 PGA |
| Kevin | Bales | 12 | 2. Top 20 Player of the Year - 2020 GAP |
| Zachary | Barbin | 2,8 | 3. Top 10 and ties 2020 Open Championship |
| Austin | Barbin | 2 | 4. Last 5 year's Open Champions |
| Pete | Barron | 2 | 5. 2021 BMW Amateur Semi-Finalists |
| Trevor | Bensel | 1,3,11 | 6. 2021 Middle-Amateur top 5 and ties |
| Brian | Bergstol | 9 | 7. Low Amateur last 5 GAP Opens |
| Evan | Brown | 2 | 8. Top 5 and ties 2020 Patterson Cup |
| Michael | Brown, Jr. | 2,3 | 9. Low professional last 5 Open |
| Lukas | Clark | 2 | 10. Top 10 and ties 2020 Section Professional Championship |
| Tom | Cooper | 10 | 11. Top 5 and ties 2020 Section Assistants Championship |
| William | Davenport | 2,3 | 12. Host Club Professional |
| Travis | Deibert | 3 | 13. Host Club Champion Previous Year |
| George | Forster | 1 | 14. 2020 GAP Senior Player of the Year |
| Brian | Gillespie | 2 | 15. 2020 GAP Junior Player of the Year |
| Ashley | Greer | 1,11 | 16. 2020 Section Senior Professional Champion |
| Jalen | Griffin | 2,3 | |
| Rusty | Harbold | 10 | |
| Terry | Hertzog | 1 | |
| Brian | Kelly | 1 | |
| Branden | Knaub | 13 | |
| Alexander | Knoll | 1,3,10 | |
| Joe | Kogelman | 1 | |
| Bob | Lennon | 1 | |
| Michael | Little | 1,3,4,9,10 | |
| Andrew | Mason | 2,3,7,8 | |
| Matthew | Mattare | 2,4,7 | |
| Greg | Matthias | 9 | |
| Hugo | Mazzalupi | 10 | |
| Conor | McGrath | 2,8 | |
| David | McNabb | 1 | |
| Connor | McNicholas | 3 | |
| Zachary | Oakley | 1,3,9,10 | |
| Michael | O'Brien | 2 | |
| Gregor | Orlando | 2,8 | |
| Jeff | Osberg | 2,3,4,7,8 | |
| David | Pagett | 1 | |
| John | Pillar | 1,3,16 | |
| Parks | Price | 1,10 | |
| David | Quinn | 1 | |
| Paul | Rogowicz | 14 | |
| Joshua | Ryan | 15 | |
| Braden | Shattuck | 3 | |
| Mark | Sheftic | 1 | |
| Richard | Steinmetz | 1,10 | |
| Billy | Stewart | 4,9 | |
| Steve | Swartz | 3,11 | |
| Ryan | Tall | 2,8 | |
| Mike | Tobiason | 1,11 | |
| Andrew | Turner | 1,10 | |
| Troy | Vannucci | 2,3 | |
| Brett | Walker | 10,11 | |
| Jack | Wall | 2 | |
| Dustin | Wallis | 1 | |
| Parker | Wine | 8 | |
