IT’S a whopping 30 years now since Kathryn Imrie first stepped out on the LPGA Tour. “Thanks for reminding me,” she chuckled of this passage of time that seems to have birled by quicker than Liz Truss’s premiership.
Here in 2023, the trailblazing Dundonian, who would become the first Scot to win on the LPGA circuit in 1995, is hoping to steer a new generation along a path to golfing glory.
Based in the San Francisco area for the past 20 years, Imrie came back to her Scottish roots last summer. There was a poignancy to her return but also the prospect of new possibilities as a performance coach with Scottish Golf. “Sadly, my dad died last summer,” said the 55-year-old of that family bereavement. “I’d been trying to get back to spend more time with him but he left us a bit earlier than we thought. It was a very hard loss. The opportunity to work with Scottish Golf was another factor in my decision. It was too good an offer to turn down.”
