Deb Richard

Deb Richard
Personal information
Born	June 13, 1963 (1963-06-13) (age 48) Abbeville, Louisiana
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	University of Florida
Turned professional	1986
Former tour(s)	LPGA Tour (1986–2005)
Professional wins	6
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	5
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T10: 1996
LPGA Championship	T5: 1991
U.S. Women's Open	T9: 1986
du Maurier Classic	T4: 1988, 1998
Women's British Open	CUT: 2003, 2004
NCAA Women's Golf Championship

Deb Richard (born June 13, 1963) is a former American professional golfer who was a member of the LPGA Tour for ten years during the 1990s and 2000s.

Amateur career

Richard was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in 1963, and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. She first found success as an amateur golfer by winning the Kansas state high school golf championship three consecutive years for Manhattan High School (1979–1981). She followed by winning the Kansas Women's Amateur the next two years (1982, 1983). In 1984, Richard won the prestigious U.S. Women's Amateur; a few months later she was part of the U.S. team that won the Espirito Santo Trophy in Hong Kong.

While competing for coach Mimi Ryan's Florida Gators women's golf team at the University of Florida from 1982 to 1985, she won seven tournaments including three consecutive Southeastern Conference (SEC) individual championships. As a senior in 1985, she was the individual runner-up, by a single stroke, at the NCAA Women's Golf Championship, was recognized as the SEC Golfer of the Year, and won the Broderick Award as the nation's outstanding female collegiate golfer. Richard was a first-team All-SEC selection all four years (1982–1985) and a first-team All-American in 1984 and 1985. She graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in advertising in 1989, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1995.^[1][2]

Professional career

Richard played on the LPGA Tour or twenty years (1986–2005), during which she won five Tour events and finished in the top-10 in over seventy events. Her five wins included the 1987 Rochester International, 1991 Women's Kemper Open, 1991 The Phar-Mor in Youngstown, 1994 Safeco Classic and 1997 Friendly's Classic. Her best finishes in the LPGA majors included a tie for tenth place in the 1996 Kraft Nabisco Championship, a tie for fifth in the 1991 LPGA Championship, a tie for ninth in the 1986 U.S. Women's Open, and ties for fourth in the 1988 and 1998 du Maurier Classic. In 1992, Richard was selected for the U.S. Solheim Cup team. Her career earning as a professional golfer totaled $2,759,551.

Richard has been inducted into the Kansas Golf Hall of Fame. She has also received a number of awards for her charitable activities.

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (5)

• 1987 (1) Rochester International
• 1991 (2) Women's Kemper Open, The Phar-Mor in Youngstown
• 1994 (1) Safeco Classic
• 1997 (1) Friendly's Classic

Other wins

• 1991 JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Championship

See also

	Biography portal
	Golf portal

• Florida Gators
• List of Florida Gators golfers
• List of University of Florida alumni

References

1. ^ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
2. ^ Antonya English, "Carlson calls UF induction top thrill," The Gainesville Sun, pp. 1 & 6 (April 7, 1995). Retrieved July 23, 2011.

External links

• Deb Richard at the LPGA Tour official site

Persondata
Name	Richard, Deb
Alternative names
Short description	American college golfer, professional golfer, LPGA Tour member, LPGA vice president
Date of birth	June 13, 1963
Place of birth	Abbeville, Louisiana, United States
Date of death
Place of death