Mazzoli, Mork Set for Arnold Palmer Cup
7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Mazzoli, from Montorfano, Italy, will compete for the International Team and Mork will serve as an assistant coach on the squad.
The annual Ryder Cup-style competition will be played Friday -- Sunday at the Evian Resort Golf Club. It features the top male university/college golfers and matches the United States against Europe. This season, the participants will include corresponding women golfers to become the only major tournament which features men and women playing side-by-side as partners.
Mazzoli and his playing partner, Dewi Weber of the Netherlands and the University of Miami will tee off at 9:30 a.m. local time against the U.S. pairing of Stephen Franken (NC State) and Emilia Migliaccio (Wake Forest). The United States leads the all-time Arnold Palmer Cup series 11-9-1.
Mazzoli is the second TCU golfer to ever compete at the Arnold Palmer Cup. Julien Brun was selected to the international team in 2012 and 2013.
Mazzoli enjoyed a breakout junior season for the Horned Frogs. He was named a PING Honorable Mention All-American, PING All-Central Region, All-Big 12 and a semifinalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award.
Mazzoli, led the Frogs in five of the 11 events he competed in and finished with a team-best score average of 70.82 and was -0.68 under par, the fifth-best in school history. He improved nearly three strokes per round from last season's average of 73.78. Mazzoli also shot at or under par in 25 of the 34 rounds played, the fifth-best in school history.
Other TCU top 10 marks achieved by Mazzoli this season include a par 5 average of 4.6320 (third), a par 4 average of 4.0319 (sixth), a par 3 scoring average of 3.0845 (ninth) and 133 birdies (ninth).
The senior-to-be had five top-10 finishes including a first place finish at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate, Feb. 27-28, after recording a score of 10-under 206. He also shot 10-under 206 at the Amer Ari Invitational, Feb. 1-3, and finished tied for sixth in a very competitive field.
Mork, a native of France, just completed his first season as an assistant coach at TCU after spending two seasons in the same role at UCF.
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