Lorie Kane, C.M.

Category: Professional Player

Inducted: 2015

Lorie Kane started playing the game of golf at the age of five. As her interest and talent grew, she came under the tutelage of Canadian Golf Hall of Fame honoured member Jack McLaughlin.

Provincially, she won the P.E.I. Junior Girls Championship twice and was the P.E.I. Women’s Amateur Champion nine times between 1983 and 1992. Her extraordinary amateur career saw her represent Canada on several occasions including representing Canada in the first-ever golf competition at the Pan Am Games in 2015.

Kane turned professional in 1993 and three years later earned exempt status on the LPGA Tour. In 2000, Kane captured her first professional win at the Michelob Light Classic in St. Louis and also won three more times on the LPGA Tour that same year.  Since joining The Legends Tour, Kane has claimed four victories.  Nationally, she captured the Canadian PGA Women’s Championship from 1996-1999 and again in 2001.

Throughout her career, Kane established herself as one of the most popular LPGA Tour players with players and spectators. Her accomplishments garnered her the Heather Farr Player Award in 1998 and the Mousie Powell Award in 2000. In 2006, Kane was presented with the Order of Canada.

 

Provincial:

Lorie Kane

1982, 1983 Prince Edward Island Junior Girls Champion

1983-1985, 1987-1992 Prince Edward Island Women’s Amateur Champion

National:

1996-1999, 2001 PGA  of Canada Women’s Champion

International:

1991  Mexican Amateur Champion

1991 Commonwealth Team member

1992  Canadian World Amateur Team member

2005, 2006, 2008  Represented Canada in the World Cup

2015    Pan-Am Games

LPGA:

2000 Michelob Light Classic

2000 New Albany Golf Classic

2000 Mizuno Classic

2001 LPGA Takefuji Classic

Legends Tour (LPGA):

2011 Wendy’s Charity Challenge

2013 The Legends Championship

2016 Self-Regional Women’s Health Classic

2016 Chico’s Patty Berg Memorial

Other items of note:

  • 14 runner-up finishes on the LPGA Tour
  • Founded the Lorie Kane Charity Golf Classic benefiting charities in Prince Edward Island

Awards:

1998 Heather Farr Award (LPGA)

2000 LPGA William and Mousie Powell Award (LPGA)

Invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006

Inducted to PEI Sports Hall of Fame in 2014

Inducted to PGA of Canada Hall of Fame in 2017

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