Simpson College Men's Golf

Marvelli played collegiate golf at Indian Hills Community College (1990-92) and at NCAA Division I University of Missouri-Kansas City (1993-94), serving as team captain as a sophomore at Indian Hills and as a senior at UMKC. Marvelli was elected to the PGA in 2001. He was a 2002 Northern Club Pro Qualifier and a member of the Iowa Cup team in 1992 as an amateur and in 2003 as a professional. As a prep, Marvelli won the 1990 Class 4A State Championship at Newton High School. In a 2007 study conducted by Golf Digest, a Marvelli-taught golfer was named the most improved in the state of Iowa after shrinking her handicap 6.6 points in only seven months. The study, which appeared in an article in the May 2008 issue of Golf Digest, revealed that 1986 Simpson graduate Cindy Morrison of Indianola earned the title of most improved female golfer in Iowa after her handicap improved from 15.9 to 9.3 under Marvellis instruction.