Sarah Kemp (golfer)

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Sarah Kemp
Personal information
Born (1985-12-07) 7 December 1985 (age 38)
Sydney, Australia
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Residence Tuncurry, New South Wales, Australia
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
SpouseLisa Cornwell
Career
Turned professional2005
Current tour(s) WPGA Tour of Australasia
Ladies European Tour
LPGA Tour
Professional wins12
Number of wins by tour
ALPG Tour12
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship T66: 2012
Women's PGA C'ship T37: 2014
U.S. Women's Open T29: 2024
Women's British Open T58: 2014
Evian Championship T19: 2021
Achievements and awards
ALPG Tour Order
of Merit winner
2019

Sarah Kemp (born 7 December 1985) is an Australian professional golfer who has played on the LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour (LET) and ALPG Tour concurrently for most of her career. She has been runner-up at the Catalonia Ladies Masters, New Zealand Women's Open, Lalla Meryem Cup and Women's Victorian Open. [1]

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Amateur career

Kemp was born in Sydney and started playing golf at the age of 12. She was the top-ranked junior in New South Wales from 2001 to 2003, and top amateur in 2003. Kemp was runner-up at the 2002 Australian Girls' Amateur, and won the title in 2003. She earned low amateur honors at the 2003 Women's Australian Open, and won the Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 2003 and 2005. [2]

Kemp represented Australia internationally. In 2003, she was a member of the teams that won the Commonwealth Trophy and Tasman Cup, and she played on the 2004 Espirito Santo Trophy World Cup team in Puerto Rico. [3]

Professional career

Kemp turned professional in the second half of 2005 and joined the ALPG Tour, where she in 2006 won the Titanium Ladies Golf Classic and Jack Newton Celebrity Classic in consecutive weeks. She ended her rookie season second on the ALPG Tour Order of Merit. [2] By the end of the 2024 season, she sat 5th in the All-time Order of Merit, behind only Karrie Webb, Laura Davies, Katherine Kirk and Su Oh. [4]

Kemp was co-medalist at LET Q-School and joined the tour in 2006, recording three top-10 finishes in her rookie season, including a 2nd place at the Catalonia Ladies Masters and a 3rd place at Ladies Open of Portugal. In 2007, she tied for 3rd at the Ladies Italian Open and Northern Ireland Ladies Open. She was runner-up at the 2010 New Zealand Women's Open and the 2018 Lalla Meryem Cup, where she lost a playoff to Jenny Haglund. She has also finished third at the 2016 Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open, 2017 Hero Women's Indian Open and 2018 Lacoste Ladies Open de France. [5]

In 2008, Kemp joined the LPGA Tour, after she birdied her final four holes at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in late 2007 to tie for ninth and earn her card. [3] Her best result on the LPGA tour was as runner-up at the 2019 Women's Victorian Open. [6] She joined Minjee Lee, Hannah Green and Stephanie Kyriacou for the 2023 International Crown where they finished second. In 2023, at 37, she finished solo 4th at the Volunteers of America Classic and a career-high 59th in the Order of Merit. [7]

Amateur wins

Professional wins

WPGA Tour of Australasia wins (12)

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2018 Lalla Meryem Cup Flag of Sweden.svg Jenny Haglund, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Klára Spilková Haglund won with birdie on second extra hole

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament2006200720082009201020112012
Chevron Championship T66
Women's PGA Championship CUTCUTCUTT50
U.S. Women's Open 67CUT
Women's British Open CUTCUTCUTCUT
Tournament201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Chevron Championship CUTCUTCUTCUTT70
U.S. Women's Open CUTCUTCUTCUTT29
Women's PGA Championship CUTT37CUTT64CUTCUTCUTT40CUTCUT
The Evian Championship ^77T6769CUTT62NTT19T54T28CUT
Women's British Open T68T58CUTCUTT70CUTCUTCUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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References

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  2. 1 2 "2012 Tour Guide". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Sarah Kemp Bio". LPGA. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. "All Time Order of Merit". WPGA Tour of Australasia. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  5. "Sarah Kemp Bio". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  6. "Sarah Kemp". Rolex Rankings. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  7. Keipert, Steve (23 January 2024). "Quality over quantity rules, as Sarah Kemp seeks that elusive LPGA win". Australian Golf Digest. Retrieved 29 May 2024.