Wyndham Clark, Fredrik Nilehn top Arnold Palmer Cup Rankings
2/9/2017 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff
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The first of three Arnold Palmer Cup rankings were released on Thursday
The next round of rankings will be released on February 23rd prior to the final rankings being announced on March 9th. The final rankings will be released one week before the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational when the teams are set to be announced.
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) 0.9990 2 Sam Burns (SO, LSU) 0.9981 3 Maverick McNealy (SR, Stanford) 0.9981 4 Jimmy Stranger (SR, Virginia) 0.9981 5 Sean Crocker (JR, USC) 0.9961 6 Norman Xiong (FR, Oregon) 0.9961 7 Braden Thornberry (SO, Ole Miss) 0.9957 8 Greyson Sigg (JR, Georgia) 0.9942 9 Dylan Meyer (JR, Illinois) 0.9925 10 Will Zalatoris (JR, Wake Forest) 0.9922 11 Wyatt Larkin (JR, Kennesaw State) 0.9922 12 Chandler Phillips (SO, Texas A&M) 0.9903 13 Patrick Martin (SO, Vanderbilt) 0.9903 14 Spencer Ralston (FR, Georgia) 0.9988 15 Doug Ghim (JR, Texas) 0.9869 16 Cameron Young (SO, Wake Forest) 0.9864 17 Dylan Wu (JR, Northwestern) 0.9859 18 Will Long (SR, Auburn) 0.9821 19 Rico Hoey (SR, USC) 0.9816 20 Blaine Hale (SO, Oklahoma) 0.9816 21 Patrick Fishburn (JR, BYU) 0.9812 22 Scott Stevens (SO, South Carolina) 0.9801 23 Collin Morikawa (SO, California) 0.9796 24 Gordon Neale (SO, Florida) 0.9782 25 Nick Hardy (JR, Illinois) 0.9772
TEAM EUROPE STANDINGS
1 Fredrik Nilehn-Sweden (JR, Texas Tech) 0.9950 2 Hannes Ronneblad-Sweden (SR, Texas Tech) 0.9762 3 Viktor Hovland-Norway (FR, Oklahoma State) 0.9689 4 Frederik Dreier-Denmark (SR, UTEP) 0.9661 5 Mans Berglund-Sweden (SR, Lamar) 0.9632 6 Federico Zucchetti-Italy (SR, Texas Tech) 0.9611 7 Euan Walker-Scotland (SR, Missouri) 0.9587 8 Edoardo Lipparelli-Italy (SO, Illinois) 0.9538 9 David Wicks-England (JR, Jacksonville) 0.9476 10 Linus Lilliedahl-Sweden (SR, Missouri) 0.9476 11 Ilari Saulo-Finland (FR, Middle Tennessee) 0.9467 12 Jeremy Paul-Germany (SR, Colorado) 0.9408 13 Kristoffer Ventura-Norway (JR, Oklahoma State) 0.9378 14 Yannik Paul-Germany (JR, Colorado) 0.9356 15 Sam Horsfield-England (SO, Florida) 0.9310 16 Jeremy Gandon-France (SO, Kansas State) 0.9262 17 Harry Ellis-England (JR, Florida State) 0.9261 18 Simon Zach-Czech Republic (SO, Louisville) 0.9163 19 Gisli Sveinbergsson (Iceland) SO Kent State 0.9139 20 Alejandro Del Ray Gonzalez-Spain (FR, Arizona State) 0.9095 21 Pierre Mazier-France (SO, TCU) 0.9050 22 Erik Lindwall-Sweden (SO, Eastern Kentucky) 0.9023 23 Paul McBride-Ireland (JR, Wake Forest) 0.8994 24 Pablo Rodriguez-Tabernero Torres-Spain (SO, Kennesaw State) 0.8961 25 Daniel Sutton-England (JR, Kansas) 0.8960
-Golfweek contributed to this story
About the Palmer Cup
The annual Ryder Cup-style competition features top men and women collegiate players from the United States against their International counterparts. Each team will be comprised of 12 men's and 12 women's golfers. Day one will feature Mixed Four-Ball...
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