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Golden, Kate

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, is an American organization for female professional golfers headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Golden, Kate was born on 9th February 1967, in Beaumont, Texas. Her height is 5 foot 5 inches and she started playing golf at the age of 12. She was elected to the LPGA Tour Player Executive Committee for the 2005 07 seasons. In 1984, she won the HGA Sweetwater Invitational and the River Plantation Junior Invitational, finished fifth at the American Junior Golf Association, AJGA Tournament of Champions and was a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship. In 1989, she was a semifinalist at the Texas State Women’s Amateur Championship. She also won three individual titles, including the Southwest Conference Championship, and was a National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA All-American.

In 2004, she finished ninth at the CJ Nine Bridges Classic presented by Sports Today. In 2003, she finished fifth at the ShopRite LPGA Classic and the third round of the McDonald’s LPGA Championship presented by AIG and crossed the 1 million dollar mark in career earnings at the Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions. In 2002, she finished second at the Safeway Classic and tied for second at the ShopRite LPGA Classic and recorded her second LPGA career hole-in-one during the third round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic. In 2001, she became the second of four consecutive Rolex First-Time winners with her victory at the State Farm Classic, where she had a career-low 63 and also recorded the first hole-in-one of her LPGA career during the third round of The Office Depot.

The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.

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