Katherine Muzi
- class Graduate Student
- Hometown Newport Beach, Calif.
- Previous School Southern Cal
- High school Walnut High School (Walnut, Calif.)
- class Graduate Student
- Hometown Newport Beach, Calif.
- Previous School Southern Cal
- High school Walnut High School (Walnut, Calif.)
Katherine Muzi Bio
AWARDS/HONORS
- Honorable Mention All-Pac-12 (2022)
- Pac-12 Golfer of the Month (December – 2021)
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)
2022-23
- Made her Gamecock debut at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-14) ; finished 45th with a 54-hole total of 224 (+8)
PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA
- Spent four seasons at Southern Cal (2018-22) and graduated with a degree in business administration
- Logged a scoring average of 74. with nine top-20 finishes in 20 career starts
- Played in the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur ; steps on campus ranked 110th in WAGR
- Coming off her best season in college in 2021-22 ; started all 13-events for the 16th-ranked Trojans, posting a career-best scoring average of 73.73 (third on the team)
- Had seven top-20 finishes, three top-10s and a pair of top-fives ; also picked up her first collegiate win at the Pac-12 Preview (Nov. 1-3, 2021) in the fall thanks to a career-best 54-hole score of 210 (-6)
- She finished the 2021-22 season ranked No. 67 in the Golfstat Player Rankings
- Finished T-70th at the 2022 NCAA Championship at Grayhawk with two counting scores to help the Trojans finish 10th in the 24-team field
- Part of Trojan team that won the 2022 Stanford Regional ; she finished T-30th with a 54-hole total of 220 (+7)
- Attended Walnut (Calif.) High School prior to college where she earned athlete of the year and scholar athlete of the year honors as a senior in 2018
- 2018 AJGA Rolex All-American ; had 17 AJGA top-10 finishes and played in the U.S. Girls Junior Amateur Championship three times (2015, 2016, 2018)
- Helped lead her team to three California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state titles (2014, 2015, 2017) ; she was also a three-time Hacienda League MVP (2014, 2015, 2017)
PERSONAL
- Born on Sept. 23, 2000
- Daughter of Steve Muzi and Charlene Liu – has an older sister, Faye
- Earning a graduate certificate in data and communication at South Carolina
CAREER STATISTICS
Year | Events | Rounds | Low 54 | Low 18 | Par/Better | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Strokes | Average |
2018-19* | 2 | 6 | 224 | 72 | 1 | – | – | – | 450 | 75.00 |
2019-20* | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
2020-21* | 5 | 15 | 219 | 72 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1,130 | 75.33 |
2021-22* | 13 | 40 | 210 | 68 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2,949 | 73.77 |
2022-23 | 1 | 3 | 224 | 74 | – | – | – | – | 224 | 74.67 |
Total | 21 | 64 | 210 | 68 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4,753 | 74.27 |
*at Southern Cal