Kay Cornelius Golf

☐ Enjoyment ☐ Learning ☐ Performance ☐

Whatever your skill level, age, or reason for playing golf, I am here to help you increase your enjoyment of the game and to improve your golf skills. My golf experience is extensive and started very early in life -- having grown up traveling on the LPGA Tour with my mother, eight-time LPGA winner, Kathy Cornelius, and my father, PGA Life Member, Bill Cornelius. I began playing tournament golf at age 7 and would continue on to have an outstanding record as a junior golfer, which includes winning the USGA Girls’ Junior Amateur at the age of 14. My mother and I still hold the record as the only mother-daughter duo ever to have won USGA Championships -- she is the 1956 US Women’s Open Champion.

Fast forwarding to today, I enjoy my daily role as an LPGA Class ‘A’ Teaching Professional & Director of Instruction at the beautiful Ocotillo Golf Club in Chandler, Arizona. In addition to helping golfers of all ages and skill levels improve their games, I am honored to serve the LPGA as a National Evaluator. This role consists of evaluating teaching professionals as they move toward earning their Class ‘A’ status within the organization. In the recent past, I’ve also served the LPGA as a Major Evaluation Site Host and was the Director of the LPGA/USGA Girls’ Golf Future Stars Program of Phoenix.

If you’d like to set up a lesson appointment, please contact me at 480.338.3553 or by e-mail at kay@kaycorneliusgolf.com. I look forward to meeting you and to helping you achieve your goals in golf!

Best regards,
Kay Corneliius
LPGA Class ‘A’ Member
Director of Instruction, Ocotillo Golf Club

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Biographical Information:

◆ Class ‘A’ LPGA Teaching Professional at Ocotillo Golf Resort, October 1995-Present
◆ Named ‘Director of Instruction’ at Ocotillo Golf Resort - December 2008.
◆ Tournament Director, Joanne Winter Arizona Silver Belle Championship, 2011
◆ LPGA National Evaluator, 2007 - Present
◆ Voted 2012 LPGA Central Section "Junior Golf Achievement Award"
◆ Selected: 2012 US Kids' Golf "Top 50 Kids' Teacher"
◆ Selected: 2011 US Kids' Golf "Top 50 Kids' Teacher"
◆ Selected: 2010 US Kids’ Golf, Honorable Mention “Top 50 Kids’ Teacher”
◆ Selected: 2009 US Kids' Golf, Honorable Mention "Top 50 Kids' Teacher"
◆ Nominated: 2009 LPGA Nancy Lopez Award
◆ Nominated: 2009 LPGA Central Section “Teacher of the Year”
◆ Voted 2007 LPGA Central Section “Teacher of the Year”
◆ Voted 2004 LPGA Western Section “Teacher of the Year”
◆ Golf Magazine “Top Regional Teacher”
◆ Nominated: Golf Magazine “Top 100 Teachers” 2007-2008
◆ Titleist Performance Institute (TPI), Level I Certified Golf Fitness Instructor, 2008
◆ Appointed: LPGA National Evaluator, December 2006
◆ Director, Future Stars of Phoenix, a division of LPGA/USGA Girls’ Golf 2001-2006. Organized and conducted 11 sessions annually for girls who aspire to play collegiate golf
◆ LPGA Major Evaluation Site Host, 2003, 2004, & 2005.
◆ Co-owner Golf Design, Off-course club repair facility, Tempe, AZ, 1999-2008
◆ Playing professional: Ladies Asia Golf Circuit, Ladies European Tour, Players’ West Tour & Futures Tour, 1989 to 1997
◆ Competed in three Weetabix Women’s British Open Championships
◆ Four year collegiate golfer at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (1984-1988). Competed in every collegiate tournament except one during my playing days at Stanford
◆ Stanford University ‘Honor Athlete,’ Winter 1988
◆ Earned NCAA All-American honors while at Stanford University, 1988
◆ Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Stanford University, 1988
◆ U. of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Intercollegiate Champion, 1988
◆ All Pac-10 at Stanford University, 1985
◆ Two-time Arizona State Junior Champion, 1980 & 1982. Two-time Arizona State Amateur Runner-Up, 1980 & 1984
◆ Competed in 19 USGA Championships, 1979-1987
◆ USGA Girls’ Junior Champion, 1981. Held the record for the youngest golfer ever to win a USGA Championship (1981-1998)
◆ Kathy Cornelius (my mother) and I hold the distinction of being the only mother-daughter USGA Champions. Kathy won the US Women’s Open in 1956
◆ Junior World Champion, 1980 (13-14 age division)
◆ Played in first tournament at age 7