Wyndham Clark, Fredrik Nilehn continue to lead Arnold Palmer Cup Rankings

February 23, 2017 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff

The second of three Arnold Palmer Cup rankings were released on Thursday

(February 23, 2017) -- Ahead of June's Arnold Palmer Cup the second of three player rankings have been released and the names atop the standings remain the same. Maintaining his spot atop the Team USA's standings is Oregon senior Wyndham Clark while Texas Tech junior Fredrik Nilehn of Sweden continues to hold the top spot for Team Europe.

The final round of rankings will be released March 9th prior to the teams being announced during the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 16th.

Each roster will include the top-six players in the rankings as of March 16 with the last four spots of the US team being filled by three committee picks and a coaches pick. Team Europe will fill out their roster with two committee picks, a coaches pick while the final spot is awarded to the winner of April's R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament.

TEAM USA RANKINGS

1 Wyndham Clark (SR, Oregon) 0.9991
2 Sam Burns (SO, LSU) 0.9986
3 Maverick McNealy (SR, Stanford) 0.9981
4 Norman Xiong (FR, Oregon) 0.9976
5 Chandler Phillips SO, Texas A&M) 0.9967
6 Jimmy Stanger (SR, Virginia) 0.9957
7 Sean Crocker (JR, Southern California) 0.9957
8 Dylan Meyer (JR, Illinois) 0.9950
9 Wyatt Larkin (JR, Kennesaw State) 0.9919
10 Patrick Martin (SO, Vanderbilt) 0.9904
11 Spencer Ralston (FR, Georgia) 0.9900
12 Doug Ghim (JR, Texas) 0.9890
13 Will Zalatoris (JR, Wake Forest) 0.9885
14 Scott Stevens (SO, South Carolina) 0.9867
15 Collin Morikawa (SO, California) 0.9867
16 Dylan Wu (JR, Northwestern) 0.9842
17 Blaine Hale (SO, Oklahoma) 0.9842
18 Patrick Fishburn (JR, BYU) 0.9829
19 Rico Hoey (SR, Southern California) 0.9828
20 Greyson Sigg (SR, Georgia) 0.9828
21 Theo Humphrey (JR, Vanderbilt) 0.9828
22 Cameron Young (SO, Wake Forest) 0.9818
23 Braden Bailey (SO, Baylor) 0.9795
24 Doc Redman (FR, Clemson) 0.9791
25 Nick Hardy (JR, Illinois) 0.9790

TEAM EUROPE STANDINGS

1 Fredrik Nilehn-Sweden (JR, Texas Tech) 0.9905
2 Hannes Ronneblad-Sweden (SR, Texas Tech) 0.9732
3 Viktor Hovland-Norway (FR, Oklahoma State) 0.9708
4 Federico Zucchetti-Italy (SR, Texas Tech) 0.9685
5 David Wicks-England (JR, Jacksonville) 0.9622
6 Edoardo Lipparelli-Italy (SO, Illinois) 0.9559
7 Rory Franssen-Scotland (FR, Missouri) 0.9545
8 Harry Ellis-England (JR, Florida State) 0.9459
9 Frederik Dreier-Denmark (JR, UTEP) 0.9446
10 Sam Horsfield-England (SO, Florida) 0.9426
11 Euan Walker-Scotland (SR, Missouri) 0.9407
12 Kristoffer Ventura-Norway (JR, Oklahoma State) 0.9392
13 Linus Lilliedahl-Sweden (SR, Missouri) 0.9378
14 Pierre Mazier-France (SO, TCU) 0.9361
15 Ilari Saulo-Finland (FR, Middle Tennessee) 0.9351
16 Harry Hall-England (SO, UNLV) 0.9330
17 Ryan Lumsdsen-England (SO, Northwestern) 0.9307
18 Yannik Paul-Germany (JR, Colorado) 0.9297
19 Stefano Mazzoli-Italy (SO, TCU) 0.9250
20 Yannick Emmert-Germany (SO, Wichita State) 0.9170
21 Gisli Sveinbergsson-Iceland (SO, Kent State) 0.9147
22 Alejandro Del Ray Gonzalez-Spain (FR, Arizona State) 0.9118
23 Mateusz Gradecki-Poland (SR, ETSU) 0.8989
24 Erik Lindwall-Sweden (SO, Eastern Kentucky) 0.8985
25 Hurly Long-Germany (JR, Texas Tech) 0.8980

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