The 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup was a team golf competition held from December 21–23, 2020 at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Bay Hill, Florida. It was the 24th time the event had been contested and the third under the new format in which women golfers played in addition to men and an international team, representing the rest of the world, replaced the European team. The international team won the match 40½–19½.^[1]

The event was originally planned to be played at Lahinch Golf Club, Lahinch, Ireland from July 3–5 but was moved because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2][3]

Format

The contest was played over three days. On Monday, there were 12 mixed four-ball matches. On Tuesday there were 12 mixed foursomes matches in the morning and 12 fourball matches in the afternoon, six all-women matches and six all-men matches. 24 singles matches were played on Wednesday. In all, 60 matches were played.

Each of the 60 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 30½ points won the competition.

Teams

The teams were announced in March 2020, before the postponement of the event.^[4] A number of players were unable to compete and were replaced. Four replacements were announced on December 4, 2020 and another on December 15.^[5][6] For the United States, Kaitlin Milligan and Andy Ogletree were in the original teams, while Vivian Hou, Aline Krauter and Hazel MacGarvie were in the International team announced in March 2020. Ogletree had turned professional before the event.

William Mouw (Pepperdine), a member of the American team, was a late withdrawal and was not replaced.^[7] On the first day his partner, Megan Schofill, played the fourball match alone.^[8] In the other three sessions, matches involving him were deemed to be tied.

The head coaches were announced in August 2019 with the assistant coaches selected in September 2019.^[9][10]

International
Name	Country	College	Qualification method
Alan Murray	Ireland	non-playing head coach
Ria Quiazon Scott	Philippines	non-playing head coach
Sofie Aagaard	Sweden	non-playing assistant coach
Barry Fennelly	Ireland	non-playing assistant coach
Women
Alyaa Abdulghany	Malaysia	USC	Replacement
Sofia Garcia	Paraguay	Texas Tech	Committee selection
Linn Grant	Sweden	Arizona State	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Sophie Guo	China	Texas	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Ingrid Lindblad	Sweden	LSU	Committee selection
Olivia Mehaffey	Ireland	Arizona State	Committee selection
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard	France	South Carolina	Committee selection
Gabriela Ruffels	Australia	USC	Replacement
Emma Spitz	Austria	UCLA	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Maja Stark	Sweden	Oklahoma State	Replacement
Kaleigh Telfer	South Africa	Auburn	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Angelina Ye	China	Stanford	Committee selection
Men
Ludvig Åberg	Sweden	Texas Tech	Committee selection
Puwit Anupansuebsai	Thailand	San Diego State	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Sam Choi	South Korea	New Mexico	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Alex Fitzpatrick	England	Wake Forest	Committee selection
Angus Flanagan	England	Minnesota	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Lin Yuxin	China	USC	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Vincent Norrman	Sweden	Georgia Southwestern State	Committee selection
Adrien Pendaries	France	Duke	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
Mark Power	Ireland	Wake Forest	Arnold Palmer Cup Ranking
David Puig	Spain	Arizona State	Committee selection
Caolan Rafferty	Ireland	Maynooth	Committee selection
Matti Schmid	Germany	Louisville	Committee selection

Monday's mixed fourball matches

Tuesday's matches

Wednesday's singles matches

Michael Carter award

The Michael Carter Award winners were John Pak and Puwit Anupansuebsai.^[1]

References

External links

• Arnold Palmer Cup official site