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Karen Lunn

professional golfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ3310979 ↗
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Karen Marie Lunn (born 21 March 1966) is an Australian professional golfer.

Career

In 1966, she was born in Sydney, Australia.

In 1985, Lunn turned professional. She has spent much of her career on the Ladies European Tour, where she has won several tournaments including a Women's British Open title in 1993 (before that tournament was an LPGA major championship). She won the Order of Merit that year.

In 2004, Lunn was named the Ladies European Tour's Chairman of the Board.

She now lives in Tweed Heads, Australia.

Awards and honors

In 1993, she won the Order of Merit on the Ladies European Tour.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1985, 1993, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-03-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karen, Lunn and professional.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3310979. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1985, 1993 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karen Lunn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.