Steve Marino
| Steve Marino | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Stephen Paul Marino, Jr. |
| Born |
March 10, 1980 Altus, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Residence | Jupiter, Florida, U.S. |
| Career | |
| College | University of Virginia |
| Turned professional | 2002 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) | Web.com Tour |
| Professional wins | 2 |
| Best results in major championships |
|
| Masters Tournament | T14: 2010 |
| U.S. Open | T63: 2010 |
| The Open Championship | T38: 2009 |
| PGA Championship | T60: 2008 |
Stephen Paul Marino, Jr. (born March 10, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
A military brat, Marino was born in Altus, Oklahoma, where his father, Steve Sr., was stationed as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force. The family moved to Alaska when he was an infant, and later to Ohio and Alabama. In 1991, they relocated to Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C., where they continue to reside.
Marino's golf game began to blossom at age 14, when he worked and played at the Army Navy Country Club in Fairfax; he graduated from W.T. Woodson High School in 1998. During his senior year he won the Virginia High School championship, and received a golf scholarship to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. At the end of his freshman year, he won the 1999 Virginia Amateur championship. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and graduated from U.Va. in 2002 with a degree in sociology.
Marino embarked on his professional career in 2002 on the Tar Heel Tour, and moved to Florida to practice and play year-round. He qualified for the Canadian Tour for the 2003 season, and went to Canada again in 2004, but then headed back to Florida. There he played on the Golden Bear Tour, a developmental circuit backed by Jack Nicklaus in which all the events were within 60 miles (100 km) of West Palm Beach, near where he lived then (and now).
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