Ken Kinkopf has been a lifelong Amateur. Growing up in Parma Heights, he learned the game at Ridgewood Golf Club and played for The Padua Franciscan High School golf team, which finished runner-up in the 1978 Ohio State High School championship. Ken’s achievements on the golf course really began in 1995 when he qualified for the US Amateur Championship at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. Since then, he has qualified for eight more USGA Championships, two U.S. Open Sectionals and one British MidAmateur. Ken has won four Ohio Golf Association Championships, most recently the 2019 Ohio Senior Amateur Championship. Previously, Ken has won the 2018, 2011 and 2009 Ohio Two Man Best Ball Championships. In the 2009 and 2011 Championships he partnered his son Michael. After turning 55 years old, Ken’s success ramped up. In a twelve-month span during 20192020 Ken won six National Senior Amateur Championships and vaulted to 607th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and was the 3rd ranked WAGR Senior player in the world. Since 2019, Ken has added three other National Senior Amateur Championships. In addition, Ken was the 2019 Golfweek Senior Player of the Year and Society of Seniors Player of the Year. Ken now splits his time between Dublin and Jupiter, Florida with his wife of 36 years, Carole. The couple have three sons, Michael, Matthew and Jonathan. Ohio Golf Journal
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