Texas Tech University Athletics
Aberg earns Arnold Palmer Cup selection
April 19, 2022 | Men's Golf
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech junior Ludvig Aberg has earned his second straight automatic qualification to compete at the Arnold Palmer Cup which is this summer from July 1-3 at the Golf Club de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. An Eslov, Sweden native, Aberg will represent the International Team.
Aberg is currently No. 3 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, No. 7 in the Golfstat collegiate rankings and No. 8 in the Golfweek individual rankings. He has recorded six top-10 finishes in nine stroke play events this season and has also played three PGA Tour events at the Valero Texas Open, The RSM Classic and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Using Golfstat's NCAA Player Ranking as a base, the Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking awarded bonus points for wins and high finishes and a penalty for poor finishes. The ranking also contains a strength of schedule component. Since its inception, over 125 former Arnold Palmer Cup alumni have gone on to earn cards on the PGA, European, or LPGA Tours; 32 have represented Europe or the USA in the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, or Solheim Cup and more than 65 have claimed over 285 victories on the PGA, European, or LPGA Tours, including three major champions in both 2020 and 2021. The United States leads the Palmer Cup series 13-11-1.
Aberg finished as the 2021 European Amateur Championship runner-up last summer and won his third collegiate event of his career in February at The Prestige in California. He is coming off a runner-up finish at the Aggie Invitational two weeks ago and took sixth at the Thunderbird Collegiate last weekend in Phoenix. Through nine tournaments, Aberg has a 70.3 scoring average that includes a career-low 63 at the Cabo Collegiate.
The Red Raiders have also been represented at the Arnold Palmer Cup by Nils Floren (2011), Clement Sordet (2015), Hannes Ronneblad (2017), Frederick Nilehan (2018), Hurly Long (2018), Ivan Ramirez (2019) and Sandy Scott (2019).
Aberg and the Red Raiders return to competition next week at the 2022 Big 12 Championship which is being played at the Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity. The four-round, three-day event begins on Monday.
International team ranking qualifiers included Alexandra Forsterling (Arizona State; Germany), Natasha Andrea Oon (San Jose State; Malaysia), Hannah Darling (South Carolina; Scotland), Aline Krauter (Stanford; Germany), Ashley Lau (Michigan; Malaysia), and Carolina Chacarra (Wake Forest; Spain) for the women and Fred Biondi (Florida; Brazil), Ludvig Åberg (Texas Tech; Sweden), Eugenio Chacarra (Oklahoma State; Spain), Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Illinois; Belgium), Albin Bergstrom (USF; Sweden), and Frederik Kjettrup (Florida State; Denmark) for the men.
International Team Committee selections were Archie Davies (East Tennessee State; Wales), Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (Arkansas; Argentina), Christo Lamprecht (Georgia Tech; South Africa), Julia Lopez Ramirez (Mississippi State; Spain), Hsin-Yu Lu (Oregon; Taiwan), Benedetta Moresco (Alabama; Italy), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Oklahoma State; Denmark), and Amelia Williamson (Florida State; England). David Kitt (Maynooth; Ireland) and Lorna McClymont (Stirling; Scotland) were the representatives from The R&A Student Tour Series. International Team Head Coach Phil Rowe selected James Leow (Arizona State; Singapore) for his coach's pick and Head Coach Diana Cantú selected Kajsa Arwefjäll (San Jose State; Sweden).
United States team ranking qualifiers included Rose Zhang (Stanford), Amari Avery (Southern California), Rachel Kuehn (Wake Forest), Gurleen Kaur (Baylor), Calynne Rosholt (Arizona State), and Antonia
Malate (San Jose State) for the women and Sam Bennett (Texas A&M), Cole Sherwood (Vanderbilt), Johnny Keefer (Baylor), Gordon Sargent (Vanderbilt), Travis Vick (Texas), and Walker Lee (Texas A&M) for the men.
United States Team Committee selections were Michael Brennan (Wake Forest), Rachel Heck (Stanford), Palmer Jackson (Notre Dame), Dylan Menante (Pepperdine), Brooke Seay (Stanford), Erica Shepherd (Duke), Latanna Stone (LSU), and Michael Thorbjornsen (Stanford). Jake Doggett (Midwestern State) and Olivia Mitchell (Dallas Baptist) were the non-Division I selections. Head Coaches Kory Henkes and Jim Ott selected Julia Johnson (Ole Miss) and Nick Gabrelcik (North Florida) as their coach's picks, respectively.
Biondi will be the first Palmer Cup participant from Brazil, Fernández de Oliveira the first Argentinian, and Leow the first from Singapore. First participants from their schools include Arwefjäll, Malate, and Oon (San Jose State), Bergstrom (USF), Doggett (Midwestern State), and Jackson (Notre Dame).
Returners to the International team are Åberg (2020), Chacarra (2021), Dumont de Chassart (2021), and McClymont (2019). Johnson, Kuehn, and Stone will compete in their third Palmer Cup, while Bennett, Gabrelcik, Menante, and Shepherd return from the 2021 United States squad.
The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and began at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla., in 1997. The event is a Ryder Cup-style tournament featuring the top men's and women's university/college golfers matching the United States against a team of International players. The Palmer Cup has been played at some of the world's greatest courses, including The Old Course at St. Andrews, The Royal County Down, Royal Portrush, Baltusrol, The Honors Course, and Cherry Hills. Beginning with the 2018 matches at Evian Resort Golf Club, the Arnold Palmer Cup is the only major tournament which features men and women playing side-by-side as partners.
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Additional information on the Palmer Cup is available at www.arnoldpalmercup.com.
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Aberg is currently No. 3 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, No. 7 in the Golfstat collegiate rankings and No. 8 in the Golfweek individual rankings. He has recorded six top-10 finishes in nine stroke play events this season and has also played three PGA Tour events at the Valero Texas Open, The RSM Classic and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Using Golfstat's NCAA Player Ranking as a base, the Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking awarded bonus points for wins and high finishes and a penalty for poor finishes. The ranking also contains a strength of schedule component. Since its inception, over 125 former Arnold Palmer Cup alumni have gone on to earn cards on the PGA, European, or LPGA Tours; 32 have represented Europe or the USA in the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, or Solheim Cup and more than 65 have claimed over 285 victories on the PGA, European, or LPGA Tours, including three major champions in both 2020 and 2021. The United States leads the Palmer Cup series 13-11-1.
Aberg finished as the 2021 European Amateur Championship runner-up last summer and won his third collegiate event of his career in February at The Prestige in California. He is coming off a runner-up finish at the Aggie Invitational two weeks ago and took sixth at the Thunderbird Collegiate last weekend in Phoenix. Through nine tournaments, Aberg has a 70.3 scoring average that includes a career-low 63 at the Cabo Collegiate.
The Red Raiders have also been represented at the Arnold Palmer Cup by Nils Floren (2011), Clement Sordet (2015), Hannes Ronneblad (2017), Frederick Nilehan (2018), Hurly Long (2018), Ivan Ramirez (2019) and Sandy Scott (2019).
Aberg and the Red Raiders return to competition next week at the 2022 Big 12 Championship which is being played at the Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity. The four-round, three-day event begins on Monday.
International team ranking qualifiers included Alexandra Forsterling (Arizona State; Germany), Natasha Andrea Oon (San Jose State; Malaysia), Hannah Darling (South Carolina; Scotland), Aline Krauter (Stanford; Germany), Ashley Lau (Michigan; Malaysia), and Carolina Chacarra (Wake Forest; Spain) for the women and Fred Biondi (Florida; Brazil), Ludvig Åberg (Texas Tech; Sweden), Eugenio Chacarra (Oklahoma State; Spain), Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Illinois; Belgium), Albin Bergstrom (USF; Sweden), and Frederik Kjettrup (Florida State; Denmark) for the men.
International Team Committee selections were Archie Davies (East Tennessee State; Wales), Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (Arkansas; Argentina), Christo Lamprecht (Georgia Tech; South Africa), Julia Lopez Ramirez (Mississippi State; Spain), Hsin-Yu Lu (Oregon; Taiwan), Benedetta Moresco (Alabama; Italy), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Oklahoma State; Denmark), and Amelia Williamson (Florida State; England). David Kitt (Maynooth; Ireland) and Lorna McClymont (Stirling; Scotland) were the representatives from The R&A Student Tour Series. International Team Head Coach Phil Rowe selected James Leow (Arizona State; Singapore) for his coach's pick and Head Coach Diana Cantú selected Kajsa Arwefjäll (San Jose State; Sweden).
United States team ranking qualifiers included Rose Zhang (Stanford), Amari Avery (Southern California), Rachel Kuehn (Wake Forest), Gurleen Kaur (Baylor), Calynne Rosholt (Arizona State), and Antonia
Malate (San Jose State) for the women and Sam Bennett (Texas A&M), Cole Sherwood (Vanderbilt), Johnny Keefer (Baylor), Gordon Sargent (Vanderbilt), Travis Vick (Texas), and Walker Lee (Texas A&M) for the men.
United States Team Committee selections were Michael Brennan (Wake Forest), Rachel Heck (Stanford), Palmer Jackson (Notre Dame), Dylan Menante (Pepperdine), Brooke Seay (Stanford), Erica Shepherd (Duke), Latanna Stone (LSU), and Michael Thorbjornsen (Stanford). Jake Doggett (Midwestern State) and Olivia Mitchell (Dallas Baptist) were the non-Division I selections. Head Coaches Kory Henkes and Jim Ott selected Julia Johnson (Ole Miss) and Nick Gabrelcik (North Florida) as their coach's picks, respectively.
Biondi will be the first Palmer Cup participant from Brazil, Fernández de Oliveira the first Argentinian, and Leow the first from Singapore. First participants from their schools include Arwefjäll, Malate, and Oon (San Jose State), Bergstrom (USF), Doggett (Midwestern State), and Jackson (Notre Dame).
Returners to the International team are Åberg (2020), Chacarra (2021), Dumont de Chassart (2021), and McClymont (2019). Johnson, Kuehn, and Stone will compete in their third Palmer Cup, while Bennett, Gabrelcik, Menante, and Shepherd return from the 2021 United States squad.
The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and began at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla., in 1997. The event is a Ryder Cup-style tournament featuring the top men's and women's university/college golfers matching the United States against a team of International players. The Palmer Cup has been played at some of the world's greatest courses, including The Old Course at St. Andrews, The Royal County Down, Royal Portrush, Baltusrol, The Honors Course, and Cherry Hills. Beginning with the 2018 matches at Evian Resort Golf Club, the Arnold Palmer Cup is the only major tournament which features men and women playing side-by-side as partners.
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Additional information on the Palmer Cup is available at www.arnoldpalmercup.com.
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