Jennifer Kupcho is an American professional golfer from Westminster, Colorado. The LPGA golfer is set to win for the first time on the LPGA Tour at the 2022 Chevron Championship. Chevron increased the total purse to $5 million, with the winner being paid out $750,000.
Kupcho turned professional in 2019. She earned her first professional victory at the 2020 Colorado Women’s Open. The former NCAA champion at Wake Forest shot 68 in the final round to win the Colorado Women’s Open by three shots over two-time LPGA winner Carlota Ciganda. The Colorado native won $50,000.
She played college golf at Wake Forest University. As a junior, Kupcho became the First National Player of the Year in program history by winning the 2018 Honda Award. She was named First-Team WGCA All-American, All-ACC and ACC Honor Roll. She won four titles (Ocean Course Invitational, Bryan National Collegiate, NCAA Tallahassee Regional, NCAA Championship) and became the first wire-to-wire NCAA Champion since 2002. As a senior, Kupcho won the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2019. She also won the 2018 McCormack Medal as year-end No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and had two collegiate victories (Tar Heel Classic – Casa de Campo, Bryan National Collegiate) to give her nine career victories, second in Wake Forest history. She was named to the First-Team WGCA All-American, ACC Co-Player of the Year, All-ACC and ANNIKA Award Finalist.
Prior to Wake Forest, Kupcho reached the round of 16 at the 2015 U.S. Amateur and was the 2015 Colorado Women’s Golf Association Player of the Year. She won a state championship and was the runner-up and the low-amateur at the Colorado Women’s Open. The Westminster, Colorado native was a two-time Colorado Women’s Golf Association Junior Player of Year and the first player in state history to be named both the CWGA Player of the Year and Junior Player of the Year in the same season. At the USGA Girls Junior Amateur Championship she was tied for eighth in the round of 64 and she finished eighth at the Girls’ Junior Americas Cup in 2014. Kupcho won the Colorado Junior PGA Championship and the Big I Junior Classic.
