FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –Nova Southeastern men’s golfer
Benjamin Taylor (Jr., Leatherhead, England) has been selected to compete in the 2013 Palmer Cup, representing Europe, June 7-9 at the Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Del., as announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
The event will use a Ryder Cup-style format and bring together the top-10 collegiate players in the United States against their counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland. The event will feature 24 matches with every player required to compete twice. Players must participate in either the four-ball or foursomes matches and in one of the two rounds of singles matches.
Taylor, the 2012 Division-II Jack Nicklaus Award recipient has been selected and will be representing Europe as the only Division-II golfer selected by either teams. Taylor is also the only golfer to be selected in the history of the Sharks program.
Team Europe will consist of Julien Brun of TCU (France), Iowa State’s Scott Fernandez (Spain), Pedro Figueiredo (Portugal) and Pontus Widegren (Sweden) of UCLA, UCF’s Greg Eason (England) and California’s Joel Stalter (France) were the six European players selected by the Palmer Cup Ranking. Kevin Phelan (Ireland) of North Florida and Nova Southeastern’s Ben Taylor (England) were committee selections. Gary Hurley of NIU Maynooth (Ireland) qualified for Team Europe by winning The R&A Foundation Scholars’ Tournament. Arkansas’ Sebastian Cappelen was coach Andrew Coltart’s coach’s pick.
Competing against Europe will be the United States, which will consist of California’s Michael Kim led the six U.S. players selected by the Palmer Cup Ranking. He was joined by North Florida’s Sean Dale, Patrick Rodgers of Stanford, New Mexico’s James Erkenbeck, Alabama’s Cory Whitsett and Cal’s Michael Weaver off the ranking. Committee selections were Daniel Berger of Florida State, Abilene Christian’s Alex Carpenter and Alabama’s Justin Thomas. Bobby Wyatt of Alabama was coach Jay Seawell’s coach’s pick.
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