Former Husker women’s golfer Kate Smith-Stroh captured her LPGA Tour Card for the 2025 season by tying for 19th at the LPGA Q-Series Final Qualifying Stage in Mobile, Ala., on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Smith-Stroh, an All-American and Big Ten Champion for Nebraska as a fifth-year senior in 2021, put together five solid rounds in Alabama to finish with a total of 350 (-8) with rounds of 69-71-67-72-71 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail – Magnolia Grove to secure a spot on the world’s premier women’s golf tour next season.
One of the best golfers in Nebraska history, Smith-Stroh has been competing on the Epson Tour since 2022. During the 2023 season, she competed in 22 events and made 19 cuts, while recording four top-10 finishes. She tied for second at the Four Winds Invitational. She added 19 events while making 13 cuts in 2024, including two more top-10 finishes.
She was ranked 33rd in the Race for the Card entering Q-Series Final Qualifying.
The native of Detroit Lakes, Minn., made history during her time at Nebraska. The two-time first-team All-Big Ten award winner stormed to the Big Ten Championship with a school-record 64 (-8) in the final round at TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio. She was named a third-team All-American by Golfweek and an honorable-mention All-American by the WGCA before becoming the first Husker in history to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup, helping the United States to a title. She was also the first Husker to compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2021.
