Tigers trio set to rep Stars & Stripes at Arnold Palmer Cup – Auburn Tigers

AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn’s personal Anna Davis, Josiah Gilbert and Cayden Pope will swimsuit as much as symbolize the United States of America within the 2026 Arnold Palmer Cup, which is about for July 3-5 at Tralee Golf Links in Barrow, Ireland. 

Davis leads the trio in worldwide expertise, as this might be her third summer season taking part in for the Stars and Stripes. She additionally represented her nation on the 2024 and 2026 Curtis Cups. Just final month, she helped Team USA to a 13-7 victory at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, California. 

Gilbert is again for a second stint after representing the United States eventually yr’s Palmer Cup, whereas Pope is about to make his worldwide stage debut. 

The Arnold Palmer Cup is a Ryder Cup-style match that includes the highest males’s and ladies’s school golfers, matching the United States towards a workforce of worldwide gamers. The competitors begins Friday with 12 teams of two-person groups competing in combined four-ball matches. Saturday’s schedule contains one spherical of foursomes and one spherical of combined foursomes, adopted by a last spherical of singles matches on Sunday. Each match win is value one level; ties are value a half level.

During the 2025-26 season, Davis took dwelling the person title at three occasions, which helped her set this system report for profession wins. The junior has now gained six. Davis earned convention recognition for the third consecutive season in 2026, receiving Second Team All-SEC honors in addition to Honorable Mention All-America honors from the WGCA and Golfweek.

In 13 tournaments, Davis recorded 12 rounds beneath par and a 71.09 scoring common.

Gilbert had one other thrilling season on The Plains that featured career-best marks throughout the board. The junior averaged 70.19 strokes per spherical and paired it with two wins, six prime 10s and eight prime 20s. His victories got here within the fall portion of final season on the Honors Course Invitational and at The Clerico. He went on to earn First Team All-SEC and Second Team All-America honors.

Like Gilbert, Pope additionally rolls into Ireland contemporary off his hottest season of faculty golf. He averaged 70.81 strokes per spherical alongside three prime 10s, eight prime 20s and a season of captaincy on the Auburn squad, which resulted in this system’s second nationwide title in two years. Pope was additionally voted Second Team All-SEC.

Both Pope and Gilbert gained three of their 5 match play duels final season, pushing the Tigers to a different SEC semifinals look in addition to the NCAA Championship.

Live scoring might be out there by way of Golf Genius. Golf Channel will dwell stream nearly all of the match by way of the Golf Channel Mobile app and web site. It will even be out there to stream dwell on the Golf Channel YouTube web page.

The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America in 1997 at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Florida. The United States narrowly leads the sequence 14-13-1.

The occasion is supported by the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation, which supplies a platform for advancing Palmer’s legacy of youth character growth and help for newbie golf. More data is accessible at ArnoldPalmerCup.com.