Current LPGA touring professional Denise Killeen has been named head coach for the new Kennesaw State women's golf program that begins play this season.
Killeen, a Marietta, Georgia native who will be taking on her first coaching job, is a 14-year veteran of the LPGA and brings decades of playing experience to the Owls.
Returning to Kennesaw will be a homecoming of sorts, as Killeen began her playing career at local Walton high School in Marietta. She then headed to Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where she starred for four years before playing on the Futures Tour in the United States, winning four tournaments and being named the 1990 Player of the Year, and then on the Women's Professional Golfers' European Tour for two years.
In 1992, she debuted on the LPGA tour, where she has since competed since, garnering nine top ten finishes, including a career-best fourth place finish at the Long's Drugs Challenge in 2001.
