Fall Arnold Palmer Cup rankings unveiled

December 20, 2018 | by Golf Coaches Association of America

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

Matthew Wolff, Viktor Hovland, Dylan Kim and Patty Tavatanakit top their respective rankings for the 2019 matches

NORMAN, Okla. (December 20, 2018) – The fall 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.

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 13.

United States Men's Rankings

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Matthew Wolff	SO	Oklahoma State	0.9995
2	Collin Morikawa	SR	California	0.999
3	Peter Kuest	JR	BYU	0.9976
4	Alex Smalley	SR	Duke	0.9966
5	Justin Suh	SR	Southern California	0.9956
6	Trent Phillips	FR	Georgia	0.9951
7	Chandler Eaton	JR	Duke	0.9941
8	Luke Schniederjans	JR	Georgia Tech	0.9941
9	Beau Briggs	SR	Ole Miss	0.9931
10	Eric Bae	JR	Wake Forest	0.9911
11	Will Grimmer	SR	Ohio State	0.9911
12	Steven Fisk	SR	Georgia Southern	0.9892
13	Hayden Wood	SR	Oklahoma State	0.9881
14	McClure Meissner	SO	SMU	0.9877
15	Stephen Franken	SR	NC State	0.9842
16	Tyler Strafaci	JR	Georgia Tech	0.9842
17	Will Gordon	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9832
18	Brandon Mancheno	SO	Auburn	0.9827
19	Phillip Knowles	SR	North Florida	0.9823
20	Riley Casey	JR	Oklahoma	0.9817
21	Clay Feagler	JR	Pepperdine	0.9798
22	Steven Chervony	SR	Texas	0.9782
23	Noah Norton	SO	Georgia Tech	0.9782
24	Bryson Nimmer	SR	Clemson	0.9774
25	Thomas Walsh	SR	Virginia	0.9758

United States Women's Rankings

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Dylan Kim	SR	Arkansas	0.9988
2	Andrea Lee	JR	Stanford	0.9977
3	Malia Nam	FR	Southern California	0.9953
4	Mariel Galdiano	JR	UCLA	0.9941
5	Kaitlyn Papp	SO	Texas	0.9912
6	Abby Carlson	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9895
7	Jennifer Chang	SO	Southern California	0.9888
8	Hailee Cooper	FR	Texas	0.9865
9	Emilia Migliaccio	SO	Wake Forest	0.9836
10	Ellie Slama	SO	Oregon State	0.9824
11	Stephanie Lau	SR	Northwestern	0.9812
12	Sierra Brooks	JR	Florida	0.9748
13	Haylee Harford	SR	Furman	0.9725
14	Jess Yuen	JR	Missouri	0.9713
15	Ivy Shepherd	FR	Clemson	0.967
16	Kenzie Wright	JR	Alabama	0.967
17	Auston Kim	FR	Vanderbilt	0.9665
18	Anna Redding	SR	Virginia	0.966
19	Kaitlin Milligan	SO	Oklahoma	0.9659
20	Brooke Matthews	SO	Arkansas	0.9658
21	Courtney Zeng	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9641
22	Brooke Riley	JR	Northwestern	0.9641
23	Alyaa Abdulghany	SO	Southern California	0.9594
24	Crystal Wang	FR	Illinois	0.9554
25	Kelly Whaley	SR	North Carolina	0.9547

International Men's Rankings

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Viktor Hovland	JR	Oklahoma State (Norway)	0.998
2	Matthias Schmid	SO	Louisville (Germany)	0.9926
3	Chun An Yu	JR	Arizona State (Taiwan)	0.9926
4	Pen Pichaikool	JR	Mississippi State (Thailand)	0.9911
5	Kaito Onishi	SO	Southern California (Japan)	0.9901
6	Kengo Aoshima	SO	Wake Forest (Japan)	0.9871
7	Sandy Scott	JR	Texas Tech (Scotland)	0.9871
8	Adrien Pendaries	SO	Duke (France)	0.9743
9	Zan Luka Stirn	JR	Arkansas State (Slovenia)	0.9739
10	Hary Hall	SR	UNLV (England)	0.966
11	Tim Widing	JR	San Francisco (Sweden)	0.9565
12	Max Sear	SR	West Virginia (Canada)	0.9551
13	Jovan Rebula	JR	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9549
14	Thomas Rosenmueller	JR	North Texas (Germany)	0.9486
15	Sean Yu	JR	San Jose State (Taiwan)	0.9481
16	Marco Steyn	SO	Wake Forest (South Africa)	0.948
17	Joel Wendin	SR	Arkansas State (Sweden)	0.9467
18	Albin Bergstrom	FR	USF (Sweden)	0.9466
19	Ben Wong	FR	SMU (Hong Kong)	0.9461
20	John Axelsen	SO	Florida (Denmark)	0.946
21	Oliver Farrell	SR	Marquette (England)	0.9457
22	John Murphy	JR	Louisville (Ireland)	0.9446
23	Ivan Ramirez	SR	Texas Tech (Colombia)	0.944
24	Rhys Nevin	JR	Tennessee (England)	0.9436
25	Jamie Stewart	JR	Missouri (Scotland)	0.9412

International Women's Rankings

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Patty Tavatanakit	SO	UCLA (Thailand)	1
2	Hira Naveed	SR	Pepperdine (Australia)	0.9983
3	Albane Valenzuela	JR	Stanford (Switzerland)	0.9959
4	Jiwon Jeon	JR	Alabama (South Korea)	0.9941
5	Frida Kinhult	FR	Florida State (Sweden)	0.9901
6	Gabriela Ruffels	SO	Southern California (Australia)	0.9888
7	Kaleigh Telfer	SO	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9877
8	Leonie Bettel	SR	Kentucky (Austria)	0.986
9	Jaravee Boonchant	SO	Duke (Thailand)	0.9853
10	Raquel Olmos	SO	Arizona State (Spain)	0.9847
11	MIchaela Finn	SR	Kent State (Sweden)	0.9824
12	Amelia Garvey	SO	Southern California (New Zealand)	0.9811
13	Virginia Elena Carta	SR	Duke (Italy)	0.9806
14	Olivia Mehaffey	JR	Arizona State (Northern Ireland)	0.9806
15	Clara Manzalini	FR	Florida (Italy)	0.9777
16	Sofia Garcia	SO	Texas Tech (Paraguay)	0.9765
17	Julie McCarthy	SO	Auburn (Ireland)	0.9753
18	Maria Fassi	SR	Arkansas (Mexico)	0.9735
19	Marta Perez	JR	Florida (Spain)	0.9724
20	Lois Kaye Go	JR	South Carolina (Philippines)	0.97
21	Leonie Harm	SR	Houston (Germany)	0.9688
22	Tze-Han Lin	FR	Oregon (Taiwan)	0.9676
23	Wenyung Keh	SR	Washington (New Zealand)	0.967
24	Greta Voelker	JR	Texas (Germany)	0.967
25	Abegail Arevalo	SR	San Jose State (Philipines)	0.966

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