Kathy Ahern (May 7, 1949 – July 6, 1996) was an American professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er 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 ...

Career

Born in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, Ahern was raised in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

, and won the Texas women's public links title at age 15 She joined the

direct from high school in

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

and won three events, including one major title, the

LPGA Championship The Women's PGA Championship (branded as the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a women's professional golf tournament. First held in 1955, it is one of five majors on the LPGA Tour. It is not recognized as a major by the ...

Ahern's first win came at the

Southgate Ladies Open The Southgate Ladies Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1969 to 1975. It was played at the Leawood South Country Club in Leawood, Kansas. Winners ;Southgate Open *1975 Kathy Whitworth ;Southgate Ladies Open *1974 Jane Blalock and ...

in August and the last at George Washington Classic in She was also a runner-up at the U.S. Women's Open in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

, the week before her final win. Ahern played little in the 1980s, but remained a presence around the tour and sometimes caddied for

Sherri Turner Sherri Turner (born October 4, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1984 and won three LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. Amateur career Turner was born in Greenvil ...

Death

After a five-year battle against

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, Ahern died at age 47 at her mother's home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, northeast At the time of her death, she was a resident of Greenville, South Carolina.

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (3)

Major championships

Wins (1)

References

External links

Texas Golf Association
– Kathy Ahern * American female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Winners of LPGA major golf championships Golfers from Pittsburgh Golfers from Phoenix, Arizona Deaths from cancer in Arizona Deaths from breast cancer 1949 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American women 20th-century American people {{US-golf-bio-stub