2016 Arnold Palmer Cup

2016 Arnold Palmer Cup

Dates	24–26 June 2016
Venue	Formby Golf Club
Location	Formby, Merseyside, England
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Europe wins the Arnold Palmer Cup
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The 2016 Arnold Palmer Cup was held from 24–26 June 2016 at Formby Golf Club in Formby, Merseyside, England. Europe won 181⁄2 to 111⁄2.^[1]

Format[]

On Friday, there were five matches of foursomes in the morning, followed by five four-ball matches in the afternoon. Ten singles matches were played on Saturday, and ten more on Sunday. In all, 30 matches were played.

Each of the 30 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole, each side earned half a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 151⁄2 points won the competition.

Teams[]

Ten college golfers from the United States and Europe participated in the event plus a non-playing head coach and assistant coach for each team.^[2]

United States
Name	Class	College	Qualification method
	non-playing head coach
	non-playing assistant coach
Charlie Danielson	Sr.	Illinois	2nd in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Sr.	LSU	3rd in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Jr.	Southern Cal	4th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Sr.	Auburn	5th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Jr.	San Diego State	6th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Derek Bard	Jr.	Virginia	Committee pick
Will Zalatoris	So.	Wake Forest	Committee pick
	Sr.	Chico State	Committee pick, non-Division I
	Fr.	Vanderbilt	Coach's pick
Doug Ghim	So.	Texas	replaced Maverick McNealy[3]

Europe
Name	Country	Class	College	Qualification method
Janice Moodie	Scotland	non-playing head coach
Dean Robertson	Scotland	non-playing assistant coach
Sam Horsfield	England	Fr.	Florida	1st in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Matthias Schwab	Austria	Jr.	Vanderbilt	2nd in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Adrian Meronk	Poland	Sr.	East Tennessee State	3rd in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Lars van Meijel	Netherlands	Jr.	Memphis	4th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Sweden	Sr.	Augusta	5th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Wales	Sr.	Stanford	6th in Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
	Ireland	So.	Maynooth	Committee pick
Antoine Rozner	France	Sr.	UMKC	Committee pick
	Switzerland	Sr.	Stirling	Winner of R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament
	France	Sr.	Louisville	Coach's pick

Friday's matches[]

Morning foursomes[]

	Results
Boote/Horsfield	halved	Docherty/Gordon
Meronk/Schwab	1 up	Ghim/Zalatoris
Rozner/Sciot-Siegrist	3 & 2	Hoey/Mendoza
Grehan/van Meijel	2 & 1	Bard/Johnson
Eggenberger/Petersson	halved	Danielson/Wright
4	Foursomes	1
4	Overall	1

Afternoon four-ball[]

	Results
Boote/Meronk	4 & 2	Bard/Johnson
Horsfield/Schwab	2 & 1	Ghim/Zalatoris
Rozner/Sciot-Siegrist	1 up	Docherty/Gordon
Eggenberger/Petersson	1 up	Hoey/Mendoza
Grehan/van Meijel	4 & 2	Danielson/Wright
2	Four-ball	3
6	Overall	4

Saturday's singles matches[]

	Results
Antoine Rozner	5 & 4	Will Gordon
Adrian Meronk	halved	Alistair Docherty
Robin Petersson	6 & 5	Doug Ghim
Sam Horsfield	2 up	Will Zalatoris
Matthias Schwab	3 & 2	Nahum Mendoza III
David Boote	4 & 3	Michael Johnson
Lars van Meijel	2 & 1	Rico Hoey
Robin Sciot-Siegrist	2 & 1	Derek Bard
Mathias Eggenberger	halved	Zach Wright
Stuart Grehan	2 & 1	Charlie Danielson
7	Singles	3
13	Overall	7

Sunday's singles matches[]

	Results
Antoine Rozner	1 up	Nahum Mendoza III
Sam Horsfield	2 up	Rico Hoey
Adrian Meronk	halved	Alistair Docherty
Robin Petersson	3 & 1	Zach Wright
David Boote	1 up	Charlie Danielson
Mathias Eggenberger	1 up	Will Zalatoris
Matthias Schwab	2 & 1	Doug Ghim
Robin Sciot-Siegrist	1 up	Will Gordon
Lars van Meijel	halved	Derek Bard
Stuart Grehan	halved	Michael Johnson
51⁄2	Singles	41⁄2
181⁄2	Overall	111⁄2

Michael Carter award[]

The Michael Carter Award winners were and Charlie Danielson.^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• Arnold Palmer Cup official site