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Kelly Tan

golfer (1993-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ25999874
Source-derived summary

Kelly Tan (born 26 October 1993) is a Malaysian professional golfer who competes on the LPGA Tour.

Tan is a former member of the Malaysian junior national team.

Tan earned her LPGA Tour card for 2014 via qualifying school.

Tan qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Tan's first professional win came at the 2019 Florida's Natural Charity Classic on the Symetra Tour.

Amateur wins

2010 Selangor Amateur, Sarawak Amateur, Asian Schools Games

2011 Selangor Amateur Open, Malaysian Ladies Amateur

2012 Sabah Amateur Open, Santi Cup, Johor Amateur Open, TSM Challenge

2013 Sarawak Amateur, Malaysian Amateur Open

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Professional wins

Symetra Tour wins

2019 Florida's Natural Charity Classic

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kelly Tan” is golfer (1993-). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kelly, golfer and 1993-, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1993, 2014, 2016, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-10-26. For this dossier, Kelly, golfer and 1993- is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25999874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2014, 2016 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Kelly Tan” 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.