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Kellee Booth
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Height:
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5ft 6in
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Birthdate:
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4-23-1976
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Birthplace:
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West Covina, CA
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Residence:
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Coto De Caza, CA
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Rookie Year:
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2000
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Tour Status:
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Exempt
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2003 OVERVIEW
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Starts:
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10
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Earnings:
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$ 2,304.00
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Professional
2001 Highlights
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Posted two top-10 finishes: a career-best tie for sixth at The
Office Depot Hosted by Amy Alcott and a tie for 10th at the season-opening
YourLife Vitamins LPGA Classic.
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Carded her career-low round of 66 during the first round of the
LPGA Corning Classic.
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2001 Stats (rank)
Rds under par: 16/74 (124) Rds in the 60s: 7/74 (118) Birdies: 202 (67)
Eagles: 5 (32) Greens in reg: 60.5% (130) Driving accuracy: 62.8% (156)
Sand saves: 37.3% (111) Putting avg: 30.17 (75) Driving avg: 245.80 (68)
Career Highlights
• In 2000, posted six top-20 finishes, including a tie for seventh at
the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship.
• In 1999, earned a 2000 LPGA Tour exempt card at the LPGA Final Qualifying
Tournament, where she was the medalist at 280 (-8).
• In 1999, turned professional and competed on the SBC Futures Tour, capturing
the Pacific Bell Futures Classic title and placing sixth at the Futures
Tour Championship.
Amateur
Booth established herself as one of the top amateur golfers in the country
while at Arizona State University. A first-team All-American from 1995-96
and again in 1998, Booth was also the 1997 Dinah Shore Award winner and
1998 Honda Award Winner for Golf. She was also an academic All-American
at Arizona State University from 1996-98. In her final year as an amateur,
Booth won the 1999 South Atlantic Amateur, Doherty Cup, Women’s Western
Amateur and Trans National Amateur. She also was a member of the 1996
and 1998 U.S. Curtis Cup and World Amateur teams. She received the 2000
Chick-fil-A Charity Championship Nancy Lopez Award, which is given to
the top amateur from the previous year, for her accomplishments in 1999.
Personal
5’6", dark-brown hair, brown eyes…Started playing golf at the age
of 3…Credits her mother, Jane Bastanchury Booth, father, Mike Booth, grandfather,
Louis Bastanchury, and teacher, Tom Sargent, as the individuals most influencing
her career…Enjoys traveling, reading and collecting Beanie Babies…Qualified
for the Tour on her first attempt.
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