Men's Golf Associated Press

Augusta?s Petersson To Represent Team Europe

NORMAN, Okla. – The Arnold Palmer Cup teams for both Europe and the United States were announced on Friday on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive and Augusta senior Robin Petersson was named to the European squad. The annual Ryder Cup-style competition will be played June 24-26 at Formby Golf Cub in Formby, England.

For Team Europe, Sam Horsfield of Florida (England), Vanderbilt’s Matthias Schwab (Austria), Adrian Meronk from East Tennessee State (Poland), Lars van Meijel of Memphis (Netherlands), Augusta’s Robin Petersson (Sweden) and David Boote of Stanford (Wales) were determined through the ranking.

So far as a senior 2015-16, Petersson has earned a No. 29 national ranking by Golfstat.com and helped guide the Jags to a No. 29 national ranking. He has two individual wins this season, taking first place at the NC State Wolfpack Intercollegiate firing back-to-back 68’s and winning the Kiawah Classic with a 68 and 66. Petersson posted five top-five finishes and eight top-20 finishes in his 10 events so far on the year. His low round was 66 at the Kiawah Classic and his current scoring average in 71.04 through nine events and 27 rounds.

With his selection, Petersson is the eighth player to represent Augusta in international amateur competition. Previously, Henrik Norlander (Sweden), Robert Duck (England), Jamie Elson (England), Oliver Wilson (England), Kalle Edberg (Sweden), Scott Jamieson (Scotland) and Wallace Booth (Scotland) played for either Europe and/or Great Britain/Ireland in the Palmer Cup or Walker Cup.

Committee selections were Maynooth’s Stuart Grehan and Antoine Rozner of UMKC. Mathias Eggenberger of Stirling (Switzerland) qualified for Team Europe by winning The R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament. Robin Sciot-Siegrist of Louisville was Janice Moodie’s coach’s pick.

Eggenberger, Schwab and Meronk return from last year’s squad that fell to the United States, 18-12. Memphis’ van Meijel and UMKC’s Rozner are the first Arnold Palmer Cup participants from their universities. Including its coaching staff, Europe is represented by 10 countries - matching the event record set in 2015.

Maverick McNealy of Stanford, Charlie Danielson of Illinois, LSU’s Zach Wright, Rico Hoey of Southern California, Auburn’s Michael Johnson and Nahum Mendoza III of San Diego State were the six United States players selected by the Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking.

Derek Bard of Virginia, Chico State’s Alistair Docherty and Will Zalatoris of Wake Forest were committee selections. Docherty was the designated non-Division I player. Will Gordon of Vanderbilt was Mike Cook’s coach’s pick.

McNealy represented the United States in 2015 and was also selected to represent the Arnold Palmer Cup in the 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Hoey participated at Walton Heath in 2014 where he was chosen by Europe as America’s recipient of the Michael Carter Award. Bard is the first Virginia golfer selected for the Arnold Palmer Cup.