Kelli Kuehne

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Kelli Kuehne
Personal information
Born (1977-05-11) May 11, 1977 (age 46)
LPGA Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship35th: 2001
Women's PGA C'shipT6: 2008
U.S. Women's Open3rd: 1999
du Maurier ClassicT18: 2000
Women's British OpenT7: 2001

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

Amateur career

Kuehne was born in

All-American.[4] She played on the 1996 Curtis Cup team.[4]

Professional career

Kuehne turned professional in 1996.

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

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.

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

  • 1994
    U.S. Girls' Junior
  • 1995
    U.S. Women's Amateur
  • 1996
    British Ladies Amateur

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 May 30, 1999 LPGA Corning Classic –10 (69-69-70-70=278) 1 stroke United States Rosie Jones

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 1999
Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
Se Ri Pak
United States Sherri Steinhauer
Australia Karrie Webb
 Pak won with birdie on first extra hole
2 2000 LPGA Corning Classic
Vicki Goetze-Ackerman
United States Betsy King
 King won with birdie on second extra hole

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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. ^ a b c d "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. 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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