Kristen Samp

Professional Golfer now teaching the masses to play their best game and loving every minute of it!

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

BIG DAY on Golf Channel with the NCAA Women's Team Quarterfinals and Semifinals from Omni La Costa 🔥

Quarters:
(1) Stanford v. (8) Pepperdine
(2) USC v. (7) Duke
(3) Arkansas v. (6) Oklahoma State
(4) Texas v. (5) Eastern Michigan

Golf Channel | @Stifel | @OmniHotels

[Lottie Woad @LottieWoad]

Win number 2 on the @LPGA was extra sweet! 🍬
Thank you to everyone who came out this week!!

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Nelly and Patty T is an awesome final group today at the Chevron, but in the group behind her is the player I'm rooting for.

Because the money isn't good enough on the women's tour outside of the top 50 players or so, you don't see many grinders in the women's game.

Ryann O'Toole is one of them.

In a game when women turn pro in their teens and even the best of the best often retire early, O'Toole is 39. Ancient by LPGA standards.
For some context, the average age of the rest of the top ten is just 26.

She turned pro 17 years ago, and didn't get her first win until 2021 in her 228th start. She is now over 300 career starts.

O'Toole has played really solid for years, often keeping her card but never finishing better than 32nd in points. A solid career that if she was on the PGA Tour would mean her would be in the 10's of millions.

She has made 4.4 million in her career, spread across 17 years. Take away travel, caddie, agent, and other fees and you see why grinders aren't a thing on the LPGA.

Last season for the first time in years she didn't play well, finished 137th in points and lost her full card. At 39, I'd guess there was some thoughts that her outstanding career was over or nearing its end.

But O'Toole didn't think that, she went to Q-school, shot a final round 65, the second best round of the day and finished 3rd, easily getting her card back.

So far this year she has made 3 of 3 cuts, and now tees off in 3rd place. Unless Nelly stumbles badly, a win is likely out of the question, but a solid weekend will go a long way to locking up O'Toole's card for next season.

It would be her 18th season and the grind would continue.

Here is to a couple of good ones.

[SMU Debate Team @SMUdebate]

Has won the 2026 ACC debate championship on a 3-0 decision against Boston College

[Jesse Cole @YellowTuxJesse]

The next frontier for Banana Ball.

Youth sports has its challenges. It’s expensive, overly competitive and often inconvenient for families.

It will take a lot of work to create something that is new and different.

But we are ready for the challenge.

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Dear @NetJets @WheelsUp

One of the best people in golf Hayden Springer needs your help. He is currently in the @BahamasKFTour event that ends Wed. He’s T9 after 2 rounds.

He is also first alternate at the Amex that starts Thursday in Cali.

Hayden and his wife Emma have been thru a lot, lost a daughter, yet continue to help others, and are truly wonderful people.

They shared their story with me years ago, trusted me enough to tell it and I have been a huge fan of the Hayden and Emma ever since.

So let’s find a way to get Hayden to Cali.

[Kristen Samp @KSampGolf]

@LottieWoad @TitleistEurope Congratulations!!

[Ladies European Tour @LETgolf]

Lottie Woad wins the @Womens_Scottish on her professional debut 🏆

#WSO25

[Kristen Samp @KSampGolf]

@CoachBondFSU @LottieWoad Yay @LottieWoad !!!

[FSU Golf @FSUGolf]

Congratulations, Coach Bond!

[Kristen Samp @KSampGolf]

@FSUGolf Congratulations!!🎈🍾🎉🎊

[SMU Debate Team @SMUdebate]

Emma Stammeyer and Evangeline Bulick with 2nd place award from ACC debate championship round against wake forest university @SMUDedman @SMU @ACCFootball

[SMU Debate Team @SMUdebate]

Is competing at its first ACC debate championship today in Washington DC. Emma Stammeyer and Evangeline Bulick are representing SMU @SMUDedman @SMU

[Eudora Golf Program @EudoraGolf]

Mark your calendar!
Girls Golf Program Fundraiser Tournament!!!
📆Sat , Apr. 26, 2025
⏰8:00am shotgun start
📍Oak Country Golf Course, 8800 Scott Dr, DeSoto, KS
💲$200 per 4-person team
💰$250 hole sponsorship
💳Venmo accepted (see flier image)
❓[email protected]
#SeeYouThere

[Dan Rapaport @Daniel_Rapaport]

This was the last year of the Monday qualifier for the WM Phoenix Open, as @acaseofthegolf1 has highlighted beautifully this week. Will Chandler played his way into the field on Monday and just outplayed Scottie Scheffler (66 vs. 72) in the same group on Sunday. Top 10 and now into Mexico Open.

What a week for Will, and what a statement about Monday Qs. And follow Ryan!!!

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Dear Scottie,

I’m a big fan, you are awesome for the game. I know the policy board is who ultimately made the decision to get rid of a lot of the Mondays.

I hope you Understand this tweet isn’t a shot at you in any way.

All I ask is you talk with Will Chandler about his career in golf. Even before pro golf. Ask him how he went to Georgia, despite not having a spot on the team. Ask about how in most of the events he played in, he didn’t count towards the team scores. He played as an individual. Beat 1/4 of the players he played against.

Ask him that despite being the 7th or 8th guy on a 5 man team he still tried pro golf.

Then ask him what Mondays meant to him, what they did to change his career. Without them there is a 99% chance he wouldn’t be here right now.

Ask him about Monday Q’ing five times last year on the KFT, and earning status.

And then earning his pga tour card through Q-school.

10 months ago, he’d never played in a single KFT event, let alone a Tour one.

Yes, he is a member now, and yes part of the goal is reducing field size and getting rid of a lot of Monday Qs, means members will get into more events, but it will take away opportunities for guys behind him to change their career like he did.

On Monday I stood behind him and watched as he tried to figure out if one of the guys in the last group tied him. They didn’t and now, he gets to play in one of the coolest events on Tour in the same group as the best player in the world.

And that’s pretty cool.

Then all I ask you to do is talk with policy board and tell them about Will and what Mondays meant to him.

Thanks for listening. All the best.

[Kristen Samp @KSampGolf]

@CoachBondFSU Can’t wait to hear how the speech went! Congratulations!

[SMU Debate Team @SMUdebate]

Won the team varsity championship and the junior varsity championship here in Tulsa at the Border Wars tournament. @SMUDedman @SMU

[Kristen Samp @KSampGolf]

@EudoraGolf Congratulations!!

[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

My team never sleeps 😂