Michele Redman (born April 15, 1965) is an American
professional golfer who played on the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of week ...
from 1992 through 2011. She is currently the women's golf coach at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
.
Redman was born in
Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesville is a city in and the county seat of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. It is located east of Columbus and had a population of 24,765 as of the 2020 census, down from 25,487 as of the 2010 census. Historically the state capita ...
. She attended Zanesville High School, where she played on the varsity boys' golf team. She attended
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
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, where she won four events, was named
All-American twice and All-Big Ten four times. She was the Big Ten Conference champion in 1987.
Redman played on the
Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
from 1988 to 1991, winning three times in 1991.
Redman played on the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of week ...
from 1992 through 2011 and had two victories: the 1997
JAL Big Apple Classic
The Sybase Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour for twenty years, from 1990 to 2009. The event was originally known as the "Big Apple Classic", but the name was dropped in 2007 when the tournament relocated from t ...
and the 2000
First Union Betsy King Classic. She had her best finish on the money list in 2000, placing tenth. She was a member of the U.S.
Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian- American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force b ...
team in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2005.
Before Redman's successful fourth attempt to make the LPGA tour, she played on the
Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
where she posted three victories. Redman has two holes-in-one and has won over $4.5 million.
On August 10, 2011, it was announced that Redman would be the next women's golf coach at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
. At the 2011
Safeway Classic, Redman announced her retirement from competing on the LPGA Tour.
On November 13, 2011, Redman won the 2011
Legends Tour
The Legends of the LPGA, formerly known as the Women's Senior Golf Tour (2000–2005) and the Legends Tour (2006–2021), is a professional golf tour for women aged 45 and older. It is based in the United States and is the official senior tour of t ...
Open Championship.
Michele Redman wins Legends Tour Open Championship at Innisbrook
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Professional wins (8)
LPGA Tour wins (2)
LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)
Futures Tour wins (3)
*1991 Chattanooga FUTURES Classic, Marriott's Griffin Gate FUTURES Classic, Charleston F.O.P. FUTURES Golf Classic
Legends Tour wins (3)
Results in LPGA majors
^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
CUT = missed the half-way cut.
"T" = tied
Summary
*Starts – 70
*Wins – 0
*2nd-place finishes – 0
*3rd-place finishes – 0
*Top 3 finishes – 0
*Top 5 finishes – 3
*Top 10 finishes – 6
*Top 25 finishes – 30
*Missed cuts – 16
*Most consecutive cuts made – 10
*Longest streak of top-10s – 2
Team appearances
Professional
*Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian- American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force b ...
(representing the United States): 2000
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, 2002 (winners), 2003, 2005 (winners)
*Handa Cup
The Handa Cup is a series of senior women's golf matches between a United States team and a World Team drawn from players from the rest of the world. It was founded in 2006 and is an event on the LPGA Legends Tour. Since 2013 it has been officially ...
(representing the United States): 2011 (winners), 2015 (winners)
References
External links
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American female golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
College golf coaches in the United States
Golfers from Ohio
Indiana University alumni
Sportspeople from Zanesville, Ohio
People from Port St. Lucie, Florida
People from Plymouth, Minnesota
1965 births
Living people
21st-century American women