NORMAN, Okla. – Fighting Illini fifth-year senior golfer Tommy Kuhl has been selected to compete in the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup as part of Team USA, it was announced Tuesday (April 25) on Golf Channel.
Kuhl will make his debut at the prestigious Ryder Cup-style event, which will be played June 8-10 at Laurel Valley Golf Club, located outside Ligonier, Pa.
A native of Morton, Ill., Kuhl is the seventh different Illini to compete at the Palmer Cup, and gives the Orange and Blue a representative for the third straight year as classmate Adrien Dumont de Chassart competed for Team International in 2021 and 2022. Other Illini to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup are: Nick Hardy (2017), Charlie Danielson (2016), Thomas Detry (2014 and 2015), Thomas Pieters (2012), and Scott Langley (2010).
Kuhl, ranked No. 11 nationally by Golfstat, is coming off a fifth-place finish this weekend to help lead the No. 3-ranked Illini to their sixth win of the season at the team’s Fighting Illini Spring Collegiate. He is second on the team in stroke average (70.27) in 2022-23, while tying for the team lead by posting 23 of his 30 rounds at par or better.
Kuhl placed no worse than 16th in any of the Illini’s 10 regular-season events, posting six top-5 finishes. His tie for second at the Hal Williams Collegiate in February marked his top individual finish as an Illini and included a career-low-tying score of 65 (-6) in the final round, and a career-low 54-hole tournament total of 203 ( -10).
Kuhl and the Illini begin their 2023 postseason run this week, teeing off Friday-Sunday at Galloway National Golf Club in Galloway, N.J., for the 2023 Big Ten Men’s Golf Championship. The Orange and Blue are in search of their eighth consecutive conference title, their 13th in the last 14 league championships dating back to the 2008-09 season, and the 20th in program history.
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