Major shakeup in penultimate Arnold Palmer Cup ranking

February 28, 2019 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff

(L-R) Peter Kuest, Mariel Galdiano, Chun An Yu, Frida Kinhult

All four rankings - U.S. men and women, International men and women - have new number ones with just one ranking to go

NORMAN, Okla. (February 28, 2019) – The penultimate Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking for the 2019 matches was released today by the Golf Coaches Association of America, with a major shakeup among all four ranking categories.

The decision by several top players not to participate in this year's matches has reshuffled the deck and has landed a group of new faces atop the standings.

The last ranking saw familiar names top the standings, such as World #1 and U.S. Amateur champ Viktor Hovland, and his Oklahoma State teammate Matthew Wolff, winner of four straight events this season.

But with Oklahoma State deciding not to participate in this year's matches, Hovland and Wolff will not be in attendance at the Alotian Club when the matches commence on June 7.

Others have also withdrawn from the competition, including USC's Justin Suh and Cal's Collin Morikawa who held down the second and third spots in the last U.S. Men's ranking.

The new number ones include Peter Kuest (BYU), Chun An Yu (Arizona State), Mariel Galdiano (UCLA), and Frida Kinhult (Florida State).

The top six golfers from the final ranking from both the United States and International men and women - 12 total golfers - will be among the 24 individuals selected to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup.

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.

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.

Arnold Palmer Cup teams will be unveiled live on Golf Channel’s Golf Central on Wednesday, March 6 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

United States Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Peter Kuest	JR	BYU	0.9973
2	Alex Smalley	SR	Duke	0.9963
3	Will Grimmer	SR	Ohio State	0.994
4	Will Gordon	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9931
5	Eric Bae	JR	Wake Forest	0.9917
6	Luke Schniederjans	JR	Georgia Tech	0.9899
7	Edwin Yi	SR	Oregon	0.9894
8	Riley Casey	JR	Oklahoma	0.9894
9	Chandler Eaton	JR	Duke	0.9885
10	Steven Fisk	SR	Georgia Southern	0.9872
11	Steven Chervony	SR	Texas	0.9871
12	McClure Meissner	SO	SMU	0.9867
13	Cole Hammer	FR	Texas	0.9866
14	Clay Feagler	JR	Pepperdine	0.9848
15	Patrick Martin	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9836
16	Blake Elliott	SR	McNeese State	0.9831
17	Brandon Wu	SR	Stanford	0.9829
18	Ethan Marcus	SR	Arizona	0.9801
19	Chandler Phillips	SR	Texas A&M	0.9788
20	Scott Stevens	SR	South Carolina	0.9779
21	Noah Norton	SO	Georgia Tech	0.9774
22	Benjamin Shipp	JR	NC State	0.977
23	Jon Augenstein	JR	Vanderbilt	0.9769
24	Quade Cummins	JR	Oklahoma	0.976
25	Sebastian Crampton	SR	California	0.9757

United States Women

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Mariel Galdiano	JR	UCLA	0.9966
2	Dylan Kim	SR	Arkansas	0.9932
3	Jennifer Chang	SO	Southern California	0.9869
4	Malia Nam	FR	Southern California	0.9864
5	Haylee Harford	SR	Furman	0.9853
6	Kaitlyn Papp	SO	Texas	0.9852
7	Hailee Cooper	FR	Texas	0.9847
8	Abby Carlson	JR	Vanderbilt	0.983
9	Aneka Seumanutafa	FR	Ohio State	0.983
10	Stephanie Lau	SR	Northwestern	0.9829
11	Auston Kim	FR	Vanderbilt	0.9802
12	Ellie Slama	SO	Oregon State	0.9739
13	Emilia Migliaccio	SO	Wake Forest	0.9711
14	Sierra Brooks	JR	Florida	0.966
15	Courtney Zeng	SR	Vanderbilt	0.9653
16	Ivy Shepherd	FR	Clemson	0.9653
17	Kaitlin Milligan	SO	Oklahoma	0.9643
18	Lauren Hartlage	JR	Louisville	0.9638
19	Gina Kim	FR	Duke	0.9637
20	Kaylee Benton	FR	Arkansas	0.963
21	Brooke Riley	JR	Northwestern	0.963
22	Natalie Srinivasan	JR	Furman	0.9625
23	Kenzie Wright	JR	Alabama	0.9607
24	Greta Bruner	JR	TCU	0.9603
25	Allyson Geer-Park	JR	Michigan State	0.9591

International Men

Rank	Player	Year	School	Percentile
1	Chun An Yu	JR	Arizona State (Taiwan)	0.9926
2	Matthias Schmid	SO	Louisville (Germany)	0.9895
3	Peng Pichaikool	JR	Mississippi State (Thailand)	0.9871
4	Sandy Scott	JR	Texas Tech (Scotland)	0.9843
5	Kaito Onishi	SO	Southern California (Japan)	0.9802
6	Kengo Aoshima	SO	Wake Forest (Japan)	0.9792
7	Ivan Ramirez	SR	Texas Tech (Colombia)	0.9742
8	Jovan Rebula	JR	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9733
9	Albin Bergstrom	FR	USF (Sweden)	0.9714
10	Stefano Mazzoli	SR	TCU (Italy)	0.9709
11	Alex Del Rey	JR	Arizona State (Spain)	0.9668
12	Luis Gagne	SR	LSU (Costa Rica)	0.9668
13	Harry Hall	SR	UNLV (England)	0.9644
14	Joel Wendin	SR	Arkansas State (Sweden)	0.9627
15	Oliver Farrell	SR	Marquette (England)	0.9581
16	Ervin Chang	JR	Liberty (Malaysia)	0.9557
17	John Axelsen	SO	Florida (Denmark)	0.9538
18	Adrien Pendaries	SO	Duke (France)	0.9529
19	Max Sear	SR	West Virginia (Canada)	0.9521
20	Marco Steyn	SO	Wake Forest (South Africa)	0.9506
21	Guillaume Fanonnel	JR	ULM (France)	0.9488
22	Harry Hillier	SO	Kansas (New Zealand)	0.947
23	Daniel O'Loughlin	JR	Colorado (England)	0.9463
24	Tim Widing	JR	San Francisco (Sweden)	0.9461
25	Ben Wong	FR	SMU (Hong Kong)	0.946

International Women

Rank	Player	Year	School (Country)	Percentile
1	Frida Kinhult	FR	Florida State (Sweden)	0.996
2	Patty Tavatanakit	SO	UCLA (Thailand)	0.996
3	Hira Naveed	SR	Pepperdine (Australia)	0.9949
4	Julie McCarthy	SO	Auburn (Ireland)	0.9921
5	Albane Valenzuela	JR	Stanford (Switzerland)	0.9915
6	Jiwon Jeon	JR	Alabama (Republic of Korea)	0.9909
7	Leonie Harm	SR	Houston (Germany)	0.9904
8	Emily Price	FR	South Carolina (England)	0.9898
9	Lois Kaye Go	JR	South Carolina (Philippines)	0.9892
10	Amelia Garvey	SO	Southern California (New Zealand)	0.9846
11	Ana Belac	JR	Duke (Slovenia)	0.9841
12	Agathe Laisne	SO	Texas (France)	0.9824
13	Anna Backman	FR	Miami (Finland)	0.9813
14	Gabriela Ruffels	SO	Southern California (Australia)	0.979
15	Sofia Garcia	SO	Texas Tech (Paraguay)	0.9763
16	Yu-Sang Hou	SO	Arizona (Taiwan)	0.9762
17	Karoline Stormo	SR	Kent State (Norway)	0.9717
18	Abegail Arevalo	SR	San Jose State (Philippines)	0.9712
19	Clare Legaspi	JR	UCLA (Philippines)	0.9704
20	Aline Krauter	FR	Stanford (Germany)	0.9703
21	Marta Perez	JR	Florida (Spain)	0.9699
22	Harmie Constantino	FR	Georgia (Philippines)	0.9682
23	Kaleigh Telfer	SO	Auburn (South Africa)	0.9659
24	Sára Kousková	FR	Texas (Czech Republic)	0.9619
25	Bianca Pagdanganan	SR	Arizona (Philippines)	0.9596

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