Two international team competitions. Two team victories. Two strong individual showings.
That’s the story for Westminster resident Jennifer Kupcho over the last month in representing the U.S. in the Curtis Cup and the Arnold Palmer Cup.
The Americans won both competitions, including 38.5-21.5 over an International squad Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Cup, which features many of the top college players squaring off in a Ryder Cup-like event. The U.S. now leads the all-time series in the Palmer Cup, 12-9-1.
As for Kupcho, she capped her performance on Sunday in Evian-les-Bains, France with a forfeit victory. Kupcho, the NCAA individual champion from Wake Forest, defeated 2016 NCAA runner-up Dewi Weber from the University of Miami and The Netherlands, who forfeited due to sickness.
That gave Kupcho, the world’s No. 2-ranked women’s amateur, a 3-1 record for the week. Overall, the U.S. went 17-5-2 in Sunday’s singles matches in becoming the first visiting team since 2010 to win the Palmer Cup.
Previously, Kupcho won a mixed four-ball and a same-gender four-ball match, and lost in foursomes. (Kupcho is pictured at right in photo holding the Arnold Palmer Cup with Wake Forest teammate Emilia Migliaccio, who also played for the U.S. Photo courtesy of the Kupcho family.)
This year’s Arnold Palmer Cup was the first that included a female contingent of competitors. The event was held at the Evian Resort Golf Club, which annually hosts the Evian Championship on the LPGA Tour.
In the Curtis Cup last month in New York, Kupcho went 3-1-1 as the U.S. routed Great Britain & Ireland 17-3 in a matchup of the top amateurs from each country/area.
This coming week, Kupcho will continue competing in big events as she’s in the field for the LPGA Tour’s Marathon Classic in Sylvania, Ohio. The 21-year-old earned a spot in the field by virtue of her NCAA victory. It will be her first appearance in an LPGA Tour event other than the U.S. Womem’s Open, in which she’s competed twice.
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