Jonas Enander Hedin will compete in the 2008 Palmer Cup, this week, in Scotland. |
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Enander Hedin Opens Play in Palmer Cup, June 26-27
LIVE SCORINGJune 24, 2008
Charlotte, N.C. - Recent Charlotte 49ers graduate Jonas Enander Hedin (Taby, Sweden) will represent the European team at the 2008 Palmer Cup, presented by Monster, June 26-27. The annual Ryder Cup-style competition which will be played on the 6,903-yard, par-71 Willie Park, Jr.-designed Glasgow Golf Club Gailes Links in Gailes, Scotland.
Enander Hedin led the 49ers to back-to-back top 10 NCAA finishes in 2007 and 2008. He posted a team-best 71.86 stroke average in 2007 and a team-best 71.78 stroke average in 2008. The 2008 Atlantic 10 Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Enander Hedin was selected as a third team all-America by both the GCAA and Golfweek. Academically, he was named ESPN The Magazine Second Team Academic all-America.
Charlotte placed tied for third at the 2007 NCAA Championship and tied for eighth at the 2008 NCAA Championship. The 49ers have cpatured the last three Atlantic 10 titles and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four years.
Enander Hedin is the first 49er to compete in the event.
The European team features Jonas Blixt (Florida State), Scott Borrowman (Stirling), Johnnie Caldwell (South Alabama), Jorge Campillo (Indiana), Jonas Enander Hedin (Charlotte), Charlie Ford (Tennessee), Gareth Shaw (East Tennessee State) and Tim Sluiter (Southern California). The European team will be coached by Marten Olander of Sweden.
The U.S. team, captained by Stanford coach Conrad Ray, will feature Kevin Chappell (UCLA), Derek Fathauer (Louisville), Rickie Fowler (Oklahoma State), Aaron Goldberg (San Diego State), Chesson Hadley (Georgia Tech), Billy Horschel (Florida), Adam Mitchell (Georgia) and Michael Thompson (Alabama).
The United States leads the series, which began in 1997, 6-4-1, but has lost the last two competitions in Europe. The 2007 event, at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Md., saw the American team win 18-6.
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Glasgow Golf Club, founded in 1787, is the ninth-oldest golf club in the world; it owns two courses, Killermont in Bearsden, Glasgow, and Gailes Links in Ayrshire. The Gailes Links course was inaugurated in 1892 and lies in the heart of Scotland's Ayrshire Golf Coast, only a few miles from Turnberry and Royal Troon.
Willie Park, Jr., was the 1887 and 1889 British Open champion.
The first Palmer Cup was held at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge in 1997, and has been played at other prestigious sites such as St. Andrews Old and New Courses, The Honors Course, Royal Liverpool, Baltusrol, Ballybunion, Whistling Straits, Prestwick Golf Club and Caves Valley.
Past participants include Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Charles Howell III, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, D.J. Trahan, Ryan Moore and J.B. Holmes.
