KILDEER, Ill. She once tamed Kemper Lakes.She held off a future Hall of Famer to make history winning here, but Vicki Goetze-Ackerman isnt getting approached by a lot of players this week wanting insight in how to play this brutish test with the KPMG Womens PGA Championship about to begin.Because it was so long ago, Goetze-Ackerman said with a chuckle. Some of them hadnt been born that long when I won. They have no idea. I feel very confident of that.The young pros who dont know, should know, because the current LPGA president was one of the games great amateurs. Goetze-Ackerman, 45, isnt an active player anymore, but she remains actively involved in the success of the tour in her sixth year as tour president.
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Back in 1992, Goetze-Ackerman defeated Annika Sorenstam, 1 up, in the finals of the 1992 U.S. Womens Amateur at Kemper Lakes. This was a couple months after winning the NCAA individual title for the University of Georgia. Goetze-Ackerman is one of just two players to win the U.S. Womens Amateur and the NCAA individual title in the same year.When youre living it, you dont realize what an achievement it is, Goetze-Ackerman said. When you hear it mentioned later in life, its neat. Its fun to hear.Goetze-Ackerman also won the U.S. Womens Amateur in 1989. She went on to a 16-year LPGA career. A short hitter, she didnt have the same success as a pro as she did in college.The courses got longer and longer, she said.She didnt win, but she racked up 21 top-10 finishes, and she became a respected tour leader, twice entrusted with the tour presidents job. She is a golf instructor today, married with a son.Shes eager to watch this weeks championship unfold in her return to Kemper Lakes.It will bring back some memories, she said.
As far as women's golf is concerned there is only one tournament that can rival the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, which is coming to Kemper Lakes in Kildeer from June 26 to July 1.
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LPGA president Vicki Goetze-Ackerman reflects on her winning history at Kemper Lakes, host to the KPMG Women's PGA.
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LPGA president has winning history at Kemper Lakes KILDEER, Ill. - Ariya Jutanugarn looks primed to make a run at winning back-to-back majors. Danielle Kang could get in her way in a bid to win back-to-back KPMG Women's PGA Championships.
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Classic Venues for the 2017 and 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Championship Spragued announced that the KPMG Women's PGA Championship will head to Olympia Fields Country Club in 2017 and Kemper Lakes
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Consider how much women's golf has changed since then. Kemper went fully private 15 years later. Goetze, after a winless 18-year career as an LPGA Tour player, is now the president of the LPGA Players Association and - in the most meaningful change of all - Sorenstam is retired as a player after a Hall of Fame career.
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This week's KPMG Women's PGA Championship is by far Kemper Lakes' biggest tournament. But one past tournament from 26 years ago when Kemper was still a public facility has its own mark in history.
These notable events took place at Kemper Lakes Golf Club
Goetze, now Goetze-Ackerman and the LPGA's Player Association President, won 1 UP. Kemper Lakes has hosted major men's events like the 1989 PGA Championship won by Payne Stewart, the 1986 PGA
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Kerry Haigh has fond memories of Payne Stewart's classic finish at the 1989 PGA Championship at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Kildeer. Stewart rallied from a six-stroke deficit on the final day to
Kemper Lakes has been home to numerous PGA, LPGA, senior and amateur golf events through the years. Here are the most notable events. These notable events took place at Kemper Lakes Golf Club
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"Our commitment to our partners at KPMG and the LPGA remains strong, as is our resolve to share this Championship with the nation's finest golf courses and their local communities," said PGA of America President Derek Sprague. "Both Olympia Fields Country Club and Kemper Lakes Golf Club are well-versed in major championship golf.
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