Familiar names top the first Arnold Palmer Cup spring ranking

February 14, 2019 | by Golf Coaches Association of America

The Alotian Club, host of the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup Matches

College golf's hottest player and the #1 world-ranked man and woman amateur top the U.S. and International standings

NORMAN, Okla. – The first spring Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking for the 2019 matches were 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 24 individuals selected to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup. Longtime Arnold Palmer partner Rolex is continuing its 50 year relationship through its support of the matches which will be hosted by The Alotian Club June 7-9.

Matthew Wolff, college golf's hottest player with four straight wins for Oklahoma State University, tops the U.S. Men's Ranking, while Andrea Lee of Stanford leads the U.S. Women.

Viktor Hovland, the #1 ranked amateur in the world who also represents Oklahoma State, is atop the International Men's Ranking, while another world #1, Patty Tavatanakit of UCLA, leads the women.

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.

The next Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking will be announced February 28.

United States Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Matthew Wolff	SO	Oklahoma State	1
2	Collin Morikawa	SR	California	0.9991
3	Justin Suh	SR	Southern California	0.9972
4	Alex Smalley	SR	Duke	0.9967
5	Trent Phillips	FR	Georgia	0.9967
6	Chandler Eaton	JR	Duke	0.9952
7	Will Grimmer	SR	Ohio State	0.9943
8	Beau Briggs	SR	Ole Miss	0.9938
9	Eric Bae	JR	Wake Forest	0.9929
10	Steven Fisk	SR	Georgia Southern	0.9924
11	Luke Schniederjans	JR	Georgia Tech	0.991
12	Will Gordon	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9895
13	Peter Kuest	JR	BYU	0.9887
14	Stephen Franken	SR	NC State	0.9872
15	Edwin Yi	SR	Oregon	0.9862
16	Riley Casey	JR	Oklahoma	0.9862
17	Steven Chervony	SR	Texas	0.9857
18	Cole Hammer	FR	Texas	0.9857
19	McClure Meissner	SO	SMU	0.9843
20	Zach Bauchou	SR	Oklahoma State	0.9843
21	Scott Stevens	SR	South Carolina	0.9833
22	Bryson Nimmer	SR	Clemson	0.9825
23	Phillip Knowles	SR	North Florida	0.9819
24	Clay Feagler	JR	Pepperdine	0.9815
25	John Augenstein	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9809

United States Women

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Andrea Lee	JR	Stanford	0.9994
2	Mariel Galdiano	JR	UCLA	0.996
3	Jennifer Chang	SO	Southern California	0.9925
4	Dylan Kim	SR	Arkansas	0.9902
5	Malia Nam	FR	Southern California	0.9896
6	Haylee Harford	SR	Furman	0.9851
7	Stephanie Lau	SR	Northwestern	0.985
8	Ellie Slama	SO	Oregon State	0.9839
9	Kaitlyn Papp	SO	Texas	0.9827
10	Abby Carlson	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9799
11	Hailee Cooper	FR	Texas	0.9787
12	Auston Kim	FR	Vanderbilt	0.9729
13	Courtney Zeng	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9729
14	Jess Yuen	JR	Missouri	0.9706
15	Anna Redding	SR	Virginia	0.97
16	Jennifer Kupcho	SR	Wake Forest	0.9687
17	Ivy Shepherd	FR	Clemson	0.9676
18	Emilia Migliaccio	SO	Wake Forest	0.9667
19	Kaitlin Milligan	SO	Oklahoma	0.9654
20	Sierra Brooks	JR	Florida	0.9632
21	Brooke Riley	JR	Northwestern	0.9589
22	Natalie Srinivasan	JR	Furman	0.9584
23	Kenzie Wright	JR	Alabama	0.9583
24	Kaylee Benton	SR	Arkansas	0.9578
25	Kelly Whaley	SR	North Carolina	0.9567

International Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Viktor Hovland	JR	Oklahoma State (Norway)	0.9971
2	Chun An Yu	JR	Arizona State (Taiwan)	0.9929
3	Peng Pichaikool	JR	Mississippi State (Thailand)	0.9919
4	Kengo Aoshima	SO	Wake Forest (Japan)	0.99
5	Matthias Schmid	SO	Louisville (Germany)	0.9891
6	Sandy Scott	JR	Texas Tech (Scotland)	0.9814
7	Kaito Onishi	SO	Southern California (Japan)	0.98
8	Adrien Pendaries	SO	Duke (France)	0.979
9	Ivan Ramirez	SR	Texas Tech (Colombia)	0.9747
10	Zan Luka Stirn	JR	Arkansas State (Slovenia)	0.9743
11	Jovan Rebula	JR	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9723
12	Stefano Mazzoli	SR	TCU (Italy)	0.968
13	Max Sear	SR	West Virginia (Canada)	0.9662
14	Hary Hall	SR	UNLV (England)	0.9644
15	Tim Widing	JR	San Francisco (Sweden)	0.9609
16	Eduardo Carrete	JR	Jacksonville (Mexico)	0.9591
17	Ryoto Furuya	JR	USF (Japan)	0.9547
18	Albin Bergstrom	FR	USF (Sweden)	0.9547
19	Marco Steyn	SO	Wake Forest (South Africa)	0.9518
20	Wiliam Buhl	JR	Arkansas (Norway)	0.9514
21	Oliver Farrell	SR	Marquette (England)	0.95
22	KK Limbhasut	SR	California (Thailand)	0.949
23	Thomas Rosenmueller	JR	North Texas (Germany)	0.9481
24	Alex Del Rey	JR	Arizona State (Spain)	0.9475
25	David Nyfjall	FR	Northwestern (Sweden)	0.9472

International Women

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Patty Tavatanakit	SO	UCLA (Thailand)	1
2	Hira Naveed	SR	Pepperdine (Australia)	0.9977
3	Anna Backman	FR	Miami (Finland)	0.9977
4	Albane Valenzuela	JR	Stanford (Switzerland)	0.996
5	Frida Kinhult	FR	Florida State (Sweden)	0.9925
6	Leonie Bettel	SR	Kentucky (Austria)	0.9914
7	Jiwon Jeon	JR	Alabama (Republic of Korea)	0.9908
8	Gabriela Ruffels	SO	Southern California (Australia)	0.9908
9	Kaleigh Telfer	SO	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9891
10	Jaravee Boonchant	SO	Duke (Thailand)	0.9884
11	Virginia Elena Carta	SR	Duke (Italy)	0.9839
12	Amelia Garvey	SO	Southern California (New Zealand)	0.9832
13	Yu-Sang Hou	SO	Arizona (Taiwan)	0.9804
14	Olivia Mehaffey	JR	Arizona State (Northern Ireland)	0.9792
15	Sofia Garcia	SO	Texas Tech (Paraguay)	0.9787
16	Maria Fassi	SR	Arkansas (Mexico)	0.9781
17	Julie McCarthy	SO	Auburn (Ireland)	0.9775
18	Karoline Stormo	JR	Kent State (Norway)	0.973
19	Abegail Arevalo	SR	San Jose State (Philipinnes)	0.9672
20	Wenyung Keh	SR	Washington (New Zealand)	0.9723
21	Lois Kaye Go	JR	South Carolina (Philippines)	0.9717
22	Clare Legaspi	JR	UCLA (Philippines)	0.9711
23	Aline Krauter	FR	Stanford (Germany)	0.971
24	Tze-Han Lin	FR	Oregon (Taiwan)	0.9705
25	Agathe Laisne	SO	Texas (Germany)	0.97

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