NORMAN, OK (March 8, 2018) – The penultimate Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking for the 2018 event at Evian Resort Golf Club was released today. The top six golfers from the final ranking in the Spring from both the United States and International men and women - 12 total golfers - shall be among the 48 individuals selected to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup July 6-8. The 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup will be the first using the expanded format of United States men’s and women’s collegiate golfers versus their counterparts from around the world.

Using Golfstat’s NCAA Player Ranking as a base, the Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking awards bonus points for wins and high finishes and a penalty for poor finishes. The ranking also contains a strength of schedule component.

The remaining six men’s and women’s spots for the United States will consist of five committee selections, including at least one non-Division I golfer, and a coaches pick. The balance of the International team will include the men’s and women’s winners of The R&A Scholars Tournament, four committee selections and a coaches pick.

Arnold Palmer Cup teams will be unveiled live on Golf Channel’s Golf Central on Wednesday, March 14 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
March 8, 2018
United States - Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Justin Suh	JR	Southern California	1
2	Collin Morikawa	JR	California	0.9985
3	Matthew Wolff	FR	Oklahoma State	0.9969
4	Davis Riley	JR	Alabama	0.9959
5	Shintaro Ban	SR	UNLV	0.9939
6	Steven Fisk	JR	Georgia Southern	0.9939
7	Brad Dalke	JR	Oklahoma	0.9928
8	Stephen Franaken	JR	NC State	0.9918
9	Philip Knowles	JR	North Florida	0.9918
10	Garrett May	JR	Baylor	0.9913
11	Chandler Phillips	JR	Texas A&M	0.9903
12	Bryson Nimmer	JR	Clemson	0.9862
13	Zach Bauchou	JR	Oklahoma State	0.9847
14	Will Gordon	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9836
15	Austin Eckroat	FR	Oklahoma State	0.9836
16	John Pak	FR	Florida State	0.9826
17	Brandon Mancheno	FR	Auburn	0.9826
18	Patrick Martin	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9825
19	Dan Erickson	SO	Texas A&M	0.9816
20	Sahith Theegala	JR	Pepperdine	0.9811
21	Gordon Neale	JR	Florida	0.978
22	Luis Gagne	JR	LSU	0.9764
23	Hayden Buckley	SR	Missouri	0.9741
24	Cristian DiMarco	SR	USF	0.9739
25	Brandon Wu	JR	Stanford	0.9724

United States - Women

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Lilia Vu	JR	UCLA	1
2	Lauren Stephenson	JR	Alabama	0.9988
3	Andrea Lee	SO	Stanford	0.9988
4	Sophia Shubert	SR	Texas	0.9975
5	Kristen Gillman	SO	Alabama	0.9957
6	Emilia Migliaccio	FR	Wake Forest	0.992
7	Alana Uriell	SR	Arkansas	0.992
8	Dylan Kim	JR	Arkansas	0.9914
9	Jennifer Kupcho	JR	Wake Forest	0.9902
10	Natalie Srinivasan	SO	Furman	0.9889
11	Mika Liu	FR	Stanford	0.987
12	Mariel Galdiano	SO	UCLA	0.9859
13	Sierra Brooks	SO	Florida	0.9852
14	Bethany Wu	JR	UCLA	0.9852
15	Kaitlyn Papp	FR	Texas	0.9846
16	Hannah Kim	SR	Northwestern	0.9796
17	Anna Redding	JR	Virginia	0.979
18	Jennifer Chang	FR	Southern California	0.9772
19	Allyson Geer	SO	Michigan State	0.9723
20	Alyaa Abdulghany	FR	Southern California	0.9722
21	Brigitte Dunne	JR	SMU	0.9705
22	Haylee Harford	JR	Furman	0.9698
23	Allisen Corpuz	SO	Southern California	0.9679
24	Beth Lillie	FR	Virginia	0.9667
25	Emilee Hoffman	SO	Texas	0.9624

International - Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Fredrik Nilehn (Sweden)	SR	Texas Tech	0.9939
2	Stefano Mazzoli (Italy)	JR	TCU	0.9821
3	Alvaro Ortiz (Mexico)	SR	Arkansas	0.9821
4	Lorenzo Scalise (Italy)	SR	Tennessee	0.9806
5	Jovan Rebula (South Africa)	SO	Auburn	0.9805
6	Jamie Li (England)	SO	Florida State	0.9723
7	Claudio Correa (Chile)	SR	USF	0.9686
8	Harry Hall (England)	JR	UNLV	0.9683
9	Hurly Long (Germany)	SR	Texas Tech	0.9672
10	Ian Snyman (South Africa)	JR	North Texas	0.9651
11	KK Limbhasut (Thailand)	JR	California	0.9649
12	Won Jun Lee (Republic of Korea)	FR	Florida	0.9594
13	Raul Pereda (Mexico)	SR	Jacksonville	0.9528
14	Lukas Euler (Germany)	JR	Kentucky	0.9497
15	Alex Del Rey (Spain)	SO	Arizona State	0.9491
16	Grant Booth (Australia)	SR	Nevada	0.9483
17	Conor Purcell (Ireland)	SO	Charlotte	0.9461
18	Andy Zhang (China)	SO	Florida	0.9414
19	Carl Yuan (China)	JR	Washington	0.9412
20	Yannik Paul (Germany)	SR	Colorado	0.9401
21	Matthias Schmid (Germany)	FR	Louisville	0.9385
22	Garrick Higgo (South Africa)	FR	UNLV	0.9373
23	Hidetoshi Yoshihara (Japan)	SO	UCLA	0.9355
24	Jesper Svensson (Sweden)	JR	Campbell	0.9344
25	Chun An Yu (Taiwan)	SO	Arizona State	0.9322

International - Women

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Maria Fassi (Mexico)	JR	Arkansas	0.9988
2	Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand)	FR	UCLA	0.9951
3	Olivia Mehaffey (Northern Ireland)	SO	Arizona State	0.9902
4	Dewi Weber (Netherlands)	JR	Miami	0.9877
5	Ainhoa Olarra (Spain)	SR	South Carolina	0.9865
6	Jaravee Boonchant (Thailand)	FR	Duke	0.984
7	Albane Valenzuela (Switzerland)	SO	Stanford	0.9834
8	Maddie Szeryk (Canada)	SR	Texas A&M	0.9816
9	Robyn Choi (Australia)	SO	Colorado	0.981
10	Paz Marfa (Spain)	SO	Michigan State	0.9809
11	Wenyung Keh (New Zealand)	JR	Washington	0.9777
12	Leonie Harm (Germany)	JR	Houston	0.9754
13	Pimnipa Panthong (Thailand)	SO	Kent State	0.9735
14	Julienne Soo (Australia)	JR	Oklahoma	0.9723
15	Connie Jaffrey (Scotland)	SR	Kansas State	0.97
16	Hee Ying Loy (Malaysia)	JR	East Tennessee State	0.9687
17	Ana Belac (Slovenia)	SO	Duke	0.968
18	Alice Hewson (England)	JR	Clemson	0.9679
19	Jaclyn Lee (Canada)	JR	Ohio State	0.9668
20	Renate Grimstad (Norway)	SO	Miami	0.9612
21	Jiyoon Jang (Republic of Korea)	SO	California	0.9573
22	Louis Kaye Go (Philippines)	SO	South Carolina	0.9561
23	Malene Krolboll Hansen (Denmark)	SR	Coastal Carolina	0.9533
24	Ana Paula Valdes (Mexico)	SO	Clemson	0.9525
25	Michaela Finn (Sweden)	JR	Kent State	0.9506

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