Mischa Candinas

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Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Geroldswil, Switzerland

Prior to Marquette: Candinas was the top-ranked Swiss under-25 golfer and earned medalist honors in 2024 at both the Swiss Golf National Championship and Swiss U-25 Championship ... He carded a 19-under 197 to win the U-25 event on Aug. 5-7 at Golfclub Markgräflerland, while breaking the club's 36 and 54-hole records, in addition to a course-record 63 in the opening round ... Just eight days earlier he won the Swiss Championship with a 137 (68-69) in the Golf & Country Club Blumisberg in Wünnewil on July 25-28, 2024 ... The native of Geroldswil in greater Zürich, Switzerland burst onto the scene last fall by winning the Bogogno International Junior Open in Italy (Oct. 30-Nov. 1) by 13 strokes to jump into the World Amateur Golf Ranking ... On the strength of his wins in the summer of 2024 in the Swiss championships and solid play in the fall, Candinas has jumped to as high as 449th in the WAGR rankings and and 65th in the European Golf Rankings ... He has finished in the top 11 in each event he has played during the 2024 calendar year, outside of a pair of events he competed in with professional golfers ... Included in those 14 top-11 finishes are nine combined top-five finishes in Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands ...
Most recently, Candinas competed on Nov. 12-16, 2024 in Trinity, Texas as part of Team Switzerland in The 2024 Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship at Whispering Pines Golf Club ... He and teammate Max Schliesing placed 11th out of 20 nations playing in the event.