Kelli Kuehne

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Kelli Kuehne
Personal information
Born (1977-05-11) May 11, 1977 (age 43)
Dallas, Texas
Height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
NationalityFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Career
College University of Texas
Turned professional1996
Retired2015
Former tour(s) LPGA Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration 35th: 2001
Women's PGA C'ship T6: 2008
U.S. Women's Open 3rd: 1999
du Maurier Classic T18: 2000
Women's British Open T7: 2001

Kelli Kuehne Doremus (born May 11, 1977) is a retired American professional golfer.

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Amateur career

Kuehne was born in Dallas, Texas. She was the Texas UIL 4A Girls Individual State Champion four years in a row, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 while attending Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas. In 1994 she won the U.S. Girls' Junior. [1] The following year she won the U.S. Women's Amateur [2] and in 1996 repeated as the U.S. Women's Amateur champion [3] while also winning the British Ladies Amateur. [4] She played college golf at the University of Texas where she was an All-American. [4] She played on the 1996 Curtis Cup team. [4]

Professional career

Kuehne turned professional in 1996. [4] She joined the LPGA Tour in 1998. Her only LPGA Tour win came at the 1999 LPGA Corning Classic. She played on the U.S. team in the Solheim Cup in 2002 and 2003.

At the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Kuehne took part in a six-player playoff. It was the biggest in LPGA history. [5] Se Ri Pak birdied the first sudden death playoff hole to defeat Kuehne, Karrie Webb, Carin Koch, Sherri Steinhauer, and Mardi Lunn. [6] Kuehne, who had finished play 90 minutes before the last group finished play, had left the golf course and gone back to her hotel. After getting a call from a LPGA official, Kuenhe raced back to the course just in time to take part in the playoff. [7]

Personal

Two of Kuehne's brothers are also golfers. Trip Kuehne was runner-up to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur and won the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur. Hank Kuehne won the U.S. Amateur in 1998 before turning professional.

Kuehne was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1 when she was ten years old, and started using an insulin pump in 1998. [8]

Amateur wins

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1May 30, 1999 LPGA Corning Classic –10 (69-69-70-70=278)1 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Rosie Jones

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
11999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic Flag of Sweden.svg Carin Koch
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mardi Lunn
Flag of South Korea.svg Se Ri Pak
Flag of the United States.svg Sherri Steinhauer
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Karrie Webb 		Pak won with birdie on first extra hole
22000 LPGA Corning Classic Flag of the United States.svg Vicki Goetze-Ackerman
Flag of the United States.svg Betsy King 		King won with birdie on second extra hole

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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References

  1. ↑ "1994 U.S. Girls' Junior". USGA. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ "1995 U.S. Women's Amateur". USGA. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ "1996 U.S. Women's Amateur". USGA. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "LPGA Tour profile". LPGA. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ "LPGA All-Time Records" (PDF). LPGA. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Pak wins six player playoff". Golf Today. 1999. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  7. ↑ Junga, Steve (July 5, 1999). "Far away from a playoff". Toledo Blade . p. 26. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Kelli Kuehne talks about her LPGA Career & living with diabetes". WALA-TV. May 15, 2013. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
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