Kelli Kuehne

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

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.

Trip Kuehne was runner-up to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur and won the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur.

The following year she won the U.S. Women's Amateur and in 1996 repeated as the U.S. Women's Amateur champion while also winning the British Ladies Amateur.

She played college golf at the University of Texas where she was an All-American.

She played on the 1996 Curtis Cup team.

Kuehne turned professional in 1996.

She joined the LPGA Tour in 1998.

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.

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

Amateur

Professional

Her only LPGA Tour win came at the 1999 LPGA Corning Classic.

At the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Kuehne took part in a six-player playoff.

It was the biggest in LPGA history.

Se Ri Pak birdied the first sudden death playoff hole to defeat Kuehne, Karrie Webb, Carin Koch, Sherri Steinhauer, and Mardi Lunn.

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.

Two of Kuehne's brothers are also golfers.

She played on the U.S. team in the Solheim Cup in 2002 and 2003.