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Mark Rolfing is a television golf commentator and a resort marketing director. Rolfing played professional golf in 1973 and 1974, after playing college golf at
DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...
in Indiana. At DePauw, he joined
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fraternity. However, he never qualified for the
PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
and in 1975 joined
Kapalua Resort Kapalua Resort is a golf and beach resort in Kapalua, Hawaii on the northwest shore of the island of Maui near Lahaina, Hawaii. It is owned by Maui Land & Pineapple Company. Description Surrounded by from the verdant mountain ridges and summi ...
in Hawaii as head golf professional. He later moved into Kapalua's marketing department and formed his own television marketing firm, Rolfing Productions, in 1985. He joined the
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golf team as an on-course reporter in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the
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golf team, before rejoining NBC in 1998. He remains an on-course reporter for NBC as of June, 2018.


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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) DePauw University alumni American golf instructors American marketing people People from Maui County, Hawaii NBC Sports Golf writers and broadcasters NBC News people {{US-golf-bio-stub