When the Jones Cup rolled around in 2020, a 17-year-old Cohen Trolio wasn’t even sure he’d play. It was right in the middle of basketball season for Oak Hill Academy in West Point, Mississippi. Trolio, a shooting guard, had spent the winters immersed in basketball since the fifth grade.
“A body can get so messed up if all it does is golf from the time you’re born to 18 years old,” Trolio reasoned, citing wisdom from dad and swing coach V.J. Trolio, a teaching pro at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, who always encouraged his son to play other sports growing up.
Cohen, the offensive MVP for Oak Hill during his junior season, brought his basketball shoes to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last fall just to shoot around in the gym every now and then. But high tops are mostly just a relic from a past life for Cohen, a freshman on the LSU men’s golf team.
