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Sciot-Siegrist Named to Palmer Cup Team
April 15, 2016 | Men's Golf
Robin Sciot-Siegrist is one of 10 collegiate golfers selected to the team.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tabbed as one of the top 10 collegiate golfers, University of Louisville senior Robin Sciot-Siegrist was named to the European Palmer Cup team on Friday morning.
The Palmer Cup is an annual Ryder Cup-style competition between college-aged golfers from the United States and Europe. This year's Palmer Cup will be held June 24-26 in Liverpool, England, at Formby Golf Club.
"I'm so proud of what Robin has accomplished at the University of Louisville," head coach Mark Crabtree said. "It's a wonderful accomplishment for him. It's a chance for him to play in the biggest event in collegiate golf. He's been an ACC champion, the school's all-time stroke average leader, and now a member of the Palmer Cup team It's a real honor for him and the school. He has meant a great deal to our golf program and am excited to watch him compete in this event."
Sciot-Siegrist will be only the second Louisville golfer to play in the Palmer Cup and the first since Derek Fathauer was named a member of the United States squad in 2008. An ACC champion last season, Sciot-Siegrist has developed into one of the top players in school history, owning the school record for the top stroke average at 71.87. Over the course of his four-year career, Sciot-Siegrist has three tournament wins and 15 top-five finishes.
This season, Sciot-Siegrist has appeared in nine events and is the top golfer on the squad with his stroke average of 71.63 . He is coming off his best performance of the season – a second-place at the Clemson Invitational, where fired a 210.
In 1997, Arnold Palmer was approached by the Golf Coaches Association of America regarding lending his name to an international collegiate event between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. The event would use a Ryder Cup-style format and bring together the top eight collegiate players in the United States against their counterparts from GB&I. Palmer, a former collegiate player himself, has been called America's greatest Ambassador for the game of golf. With his blessing and the support of the Arnold Palmer Golf Company, the inaugural event was played at his own Bay Hill Club in Florida in June 1997.
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