Sarah Kemp (born 7 December 1985) is an Australian

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who has played on the

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(LET) and

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concurrently for most of her career. She has been runner-up at the Catalonia Ladies Masters, New Zealand Women's Open, Lalla Meryem Cup and Women's Victorian Open.

Amateur career

Kemp was born in

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and started playing golf at the age of 12. She was the top-ranked junior in

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from 2001 to 2003, and top amateur in 2003. Kemp was runner-up at the 2002 Australian Girls' Amateur, and won the title in 2003. She earned low amateur honors at the 2003

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, and won the Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 2003 and 2005. Kemp represented Australia internationally. In 2003, she was a member of the teams that won the Commonwealth Trophy and

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, and she played on the

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World Cup team in Puerto Rico.

Professional career

Kemp turned professional in the second half of 2005 and joined the

, where she in 2006 won the Titanium Ladies Golf Classic and Jack Newton Celebrity Classic in consecutive weeks. She ended her rookie season second on the ALPG Tour Order of Merit. By the end of the

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season, she sat 5th in the All-time Order of Merit, behind only

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and Su Oh. Kemp was co-medalist at LET Q-School and joined the tour in 2006, recording three top-10 finishes in her rookie season, including a 2nd place at the Catalonia Ladies Masters and a 3rd place at

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. In 2007, she tied for 3rd at the Ladies Italian Open and Northern Ireland Ladies Open. She was runner-up at the 2010 New Zealand Women's Open and the 2018 Lalla Meryem Cup, where she lost a playoff to Jenny Haglund. She has also finished third at the 2016

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, 2017 Hero Women's Indian Open and 2018

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. In 2008, Kemp joined the

, after she birdied her final four holes at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in late 2007 to tie for ninth and earn her card. Her best result on the LPGA tour was as runner-up at the 2019 Women's Victorian Open. She joined Minjee Lee, Hannah Green and Stephanie Kyriacou for the 2023 International Crown where they finished second. In 2023, at 37, she finished solo 4th at the Volunteers of America Classic and a career-high 59th in the Order of Merit.

Amateur wins

*2003 Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Australian Girls' Amateur, Riversdale Cup *2005 Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins

WPGA Tour of Australasia wins (12)

*2006 Optus World Coraki Golf Club Pro-Am, Titanium Ladies Golf Classic, Jack Newton Celebrity Classic *2007 St Georges Basin Country Club Pro-Am *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

ActewAGL Royal Canberra Pro-Am *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Xstrata Coal Branxton Golf Club Pro-Am, Lady Anne Funerals ALPG Pro-Am *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Lady Anne Funerals Ryde Parramatta Pro-Am *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

McLeod ALPG Pro-Am *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

BWAC Regional Employment Services Pro Am *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Anita Boon Pro Am *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Aoyuan International Moss Vale Pro Am

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order.'' ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013 CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur * Commonwealth Trophy (representing Australia): 2003 (winners) *

(representing Australia): 2003 (winners), 2005 * Queen Sirikit Cup (representing Australia): 2003, 2004, 2005 *

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fren ...

(representing Australia):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Professional * The Queens (representing Australia): 2015, 2016, 2017 *

International Crown The Hanwha LifePlus International Crown is a biennial women's professional team golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. Eight national teams of four players each (32 players in total) participate in the match play event. Beginning in 2025, the field ...

(representing Australia):

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

References

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kemp, Sarah Australian female golfers ALPG Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Ladies European Tour golfers People educated at Endeavour Sports High School Golfers from Sydney Sportswomen from New South Wales 1985 births Living people