Jeff McNeil’s first-half inconsistencies prevented the Mets’ second baseman from earning a second consecutive All-Star Game appearance and traveling to Seattle this week.

Instead, McNeil has a scheduled tee time.

McNeil will participate in the New York State Open that starts Tuesday at the Bethpage Black Course and tee off at 1:43 p.m., with Metropolitan PGA executive director Jeff Voorheis confirming to The Post that McNeil has a sponsorship exemption.

McNeil will play two rounds, and if he makes the cut, he’ll appear in the final round Thursday.

The prestigious tournament has past winners that include Cameron Young, who became the first amateur to win the event in 2017 and has since compiled four top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour.

The course has also hosted the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.

The Ryder Cup will take place there in 2025.

“I think Jeff is regarded as perhaps the best golfer in Major League Baseball, and that’s no joke because there’s a lot of really good golfers in the big leagues,” Voorheis told The Post on Monday. “I think Jeff’s history with golf growing up is well-known.

“Jeff belongs in this field in that regard, in terms of his playing ability.”

It didn’t take long for Voorheis to sense McNeil’s passion for golf, either.

In a five-minute conversation at McNeil’s Drive 4 Good charity event at the Holtsville Topgolf on June 15, Voorheis could see the “twinkle in his eye” as the pair spoke about McNeil’s competitive golf desires.

Around that time, McNeil had expressed interest in playing the New York State Open, so Voorheis said he would help make introductions to the sponsors, who controlled the exemptions.

That night, Voorheis saw McNeil swing a few times, too, and he could tell — even with the evening’s casual backdrop — that this was the same person who qualified for the 2009 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.

“You kinda see him swing and you go, ‘OK, this isn’t just a guy who likes to play casually,’ ” Voorheis said.

One month later, after the “stars aligned,” McNeil will spend his All-Star break in a unique way, though it’s certainly not a surprise for him to spend time golfing.

He holds a plus-1.8 handicap index at Monarch Dunes Golf Club — his home course in California.

In an interview with Post Sports Plus last April, McNeil revealed that he has already played Bethpage Black, and that he has shot a 68 at Pebble Beach Golf Links and 69 at Cypress Point Club.

After the 2009 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship that Jordan Spieth won, McNeil kept pursuing baseball, and that turned into a career featuring two All-Star Game selections and winning the National League batting title last year with a .326 average.

He’ll have another chance to chase his other passion the next few days.

“I sense that Jeff had always been interested in potentially trying to play [the New York State Open], but a Major League Baseball player’s schedule doesn’t really correspond with the opportunity to play in golf tournaments that are finite in terms of their dates and scheduling,” Voorheis said. “It just so happened that this year’s New York State Open was scheduled during the All-Star break, so it landed at a time where Jeff knew that there wouldn’t be daily games and practices and training and activity.

“It worked out well in that regard.”