If temperatures well into the 90s with steady and blustery warm winds don’t seem to be registering with Katelyn Sepmoree, PGA, there’s a good reason.
She is pure Texas, this young woman. Born and raised in Tyler, four years playing in Austin for the University of Texas and firmly entrenched as First Assistant PGA Golf Professional at Willow Brook Country Club in her hometown.
Heat? Wind? Bring it on. “We’re ready to rock,” said the 34-year-old whose spot in this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship was earned in a most impressive way – by winning the 2025 PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship. Not that it was a huge surprise, mind you, because she was T-3 in the 2024 Northern Texas PGA Professional Championship and in 2023 became the first woman to win an individual major in the Northern Texas PGA Section.
Add it all up and she’s the perfect fit into a PGA of America major championship played at the Home of the PGA of America. And while many of the touring professionals will be seeing the East Course at Fields Ranch at PGA Frisco for the first time, Sepmoree can claim some experience.
“Fortunately, I was able to come up about four times and play it,” she said. “This week we can kind of coast and chill and get our bearings and get comfortable.”
The “we” specifically is pointed at her swing coach, Chris Hudson, who also happens to be the Head PGA Golf Professional at Willow Brook. But it also stretches out to her family, her friends, and so many of the members at Willow Brook who will provide for quite the gallery this week.
235 yards to the green from the rooftop pool. Quite the shot. 😳
— KPMG Women's PGA Championship (@KPMGWomensPGA) June 6, 2025
We put our defending champion Amy Yang and Katelyn Sepmoree, PGA, to the test at the Omni PGA Frisco Resort.#KPMGWomensPGA pic.twitter.com/b6B1wgjBTg
If they want to see a special highlight to Sepmoree’s week, they might want to be there early Thursday because the born-and-bred Texan will have the honors of delivering the opening tee shot to this major championship. At 7 a.m. she will be paired with Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England and Yuna Nishimura of Japan.
“Chris Hudson has said, ‘I want you to chase your dreams and if that’s playing in a major championship, then let’s find a way to do that.’”
Consider it mission accomplished.
