LIGONIER, Pa. – The Florida State Golf Program will be well represented when the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup tees off Thursday at the Laurel Valley Golf Club. The four Seminoles in the event – Charlotte Heath and Lottie Woad of the women’s team, along with Cole Anderson and Frederik Kjettrup of the men’s team – make FSU the only team in the country with four players in the annual competition between collegiate golfers representing the United States against an International Team.
Each team consists of 12 men and 12 women. Anderson will represent the U.S., while Heath, Kjettrup and Woad are set to represent the international side.
The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) in 1997. The international team enters the competition as the defending champions, as it earned a 33-27 win over the U.S. team at the Golf Club of Genève in Switzerland. A pair of Seminoles – Kjettrup and Amelia Williamson – helped lead the International Team to victory in 2022.
Heath and Woad are the fourth and fifth women’s players to represent the Seminole Women’s program in the event. Seminole All-Americans Amelia Williamson in 2022, Beatrice Wallin in 2021 and Frida Kinhult in 2019 have represented Amy Bond’s program in the event, which began in 2017. Robert Duck, a Seminole Assistant Coach, is a current member of the Arnold Palmer Cup selection committee.
The Florida State women finished the 2023 season ranked No. 9 nationally by Golfstat and in a tie for fifth place in the NCAA Championship Finals. Heath and Woad both earned All-American First-Team honors this past season. Heath was a finalist for the ANNIKA Award as the National Player of the Year, and Woad was named as the National Freshman of the Year (co) by the WGCA.
“Playing in the Curtis Cup in 2021 and 22 definitely taught me how to play with people with different games, a skill which I’m sure I’ll need this week,” said Heath. The Curtis Cup is just women, so I’m really looking forward to playing with the men and probably seeing parts of the golf course I wouldn’t normally see. It’s going to be more fun with three other Seminoles playing in the event.”
Kjettrup is participating in the event for the second consecutive year, while Anderson makes his Palmer Cup debut in 2023. Kjettrup and Anderson give the Seminole men’s program seven participants in the event since 2007. He (2022,…
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