Sioux Falls native Kris Tschetter will be inducted into the South Dakota Golf Association Hall of Fame during ceremonies held Tuesday, June 6, at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls.
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Sioux Falls native Kris Tschetter will be inducted into the South Dakota Golf Association Hall of Fame during ceremonies held Tuesday, June 6, at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls.
A reception will begin at 7 p.m., with the induction ceremony at 7:30.
Tschetter won six SDGA Championships between 1979 and 1986, including four consecutive Women's Amateur Champion-ships from 1983-86.
She also won the 1983 American Junior Golf Association Tournament of Champions and qualified for the 1984 U.S. Women's Open Championship.
Tschetter graduated from TCU in 1987 after a stellar career in which she was named all-conference three times and finished ninth in the 1987 NCAA Championship.
She joined the LPGA Tour in 1988. Tschetter and Billy Andrade teamed up to win the JC Penney Classic in 1991 and she was also victorious in the 1992 Northgate Computer Classic in Minneapolis.
She finished second in two major championships – the 1996 U.S. Open and 1997 Nabisco Dinah Shore.
In 2005, Tschetter tied the nine-hole LPGA record in relation to par when she shot an 8-under 29 on the back nine during the third round of the Weetabix Women’s British Open.
A member of the LPGA Legends Tour, Tschetter won the 2015 Walgreens Charity Classic in Phoenix and later that year helped the Americans defeat the World Team in the ISPS Handa Cup.
She received the Heather Farr Award in 2000 after coming back from the first of many hip surgeries that hampered her during her career. In 2002, she was named one of 10 outstanding young Americans presented by the United States Junior Chamber. Tschetter is a member of the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame and the TCU Hall of Fame.
Her heartwarming account of her long friendship with golf legend Ben Hogan, “Mr. Hogan, The Man I Knew,” has earned rave reviews from fans and critics alike.
Tschetter is the 57th person to be elected to the SDGA Hall of Fame since its inception in 1977.
