Deb Richard
| Deb Richard | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Born |
June 13, 1963 Abbeville, Louisiana |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| 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 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships |
|
| ANA Inspiration | T10: 1996 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | 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 an American former professional golfer who was a member of the LPGA Tour for twenty years during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
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.
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