Years afore she would angle toe to toe with her toughest opponent, PGA Able Brittany Kelly abridged what Roman artist Horace intended: that we all convenance adequate activity to the fullest.
Carpe diem – the Latin for “Pluck the day” activate its way into Horace’s “Odes,” and alike as the appellation of a 1938 Robert Frost poem, with a added broadly accustomed twist.
“Seize the day.”
Brittany Kelly didn’t backbone or appropriate the day. She captivated it hostage, gleaning every ounce of joy and action while advancing her alleged profession, including both Section awards and triumphs and allowance adviser a celebrated U.S. Women’s PGA Cup Team.
Kelly, who waged a 19-month action with ovarian cancer, anesthetized Aug. 31, amidst by her ancestors at her parents’ home in Fishers, Indiana. She was 32.
“We are abundantly afflicted to apprehend of the casual of Brittany Kelly from our Indiana PGA Section,” said PGA President Jim Richerson. “Brittany was a ascent ablaze in our profession and brought joy to anybody she came across. She was a able adversary as we saw in her comedy at contest like the PGA Able Championship and Women’s PGA Cup. She additionally displayed that aforementioned action in her adventuresome action adjoin cancer. We accelerate our centermost sympathies and prayers to her family.”
The Assistant PGA Able at Woodland Country Club in Carmel, Indiana, Kelly congenital a bequest of competitiveness, the adeptness to booty aloft any assignment while agreeable her acceptance and peers, and ultimately became a archetypal for arresting courage.
On Aug. 16, the Indiana PGA Section fabricated Kelly the almsman of two appropriate honors, which she accustomed via a video, while her parents were in attendance. She became the namesake for the Brittany Kelly Indiana PGA Women’s Player of the Year award, and was the aboriginal woman in Section history aback she was named — one year advanced — the 2022 Indiana PGA Section Golf Able of the Year.
“It shows the appulse that Brittany had on so abounding people,” said Indiana PGA Executive Director Mike David above-mentioned to the presentations. “She’s a abundant PGA Professional, a abundant person, and we appetite to admit that fact.”
Living in the moment, abrading up activity — alike aback blight threw up the stiffest barricades — were allotment of Brittany’s makeup.
“She was consistently one to accompany all of us up aback we were down, and that’s so silly, because she was activity through cancer,” said her sister, Ashley Pogue. “But there she was, aggravating to accomplish us feel better.”
Memories came hasty to the apparent for Ashley, 37, who is about 4½ years earlier than Brittany.
“I’m a Type-A ancient personality and consistently had a anguish list, and things I had to get done,” said Ashley. “Britt would appear by, booty a quick attending at my list, again write, ‘Britt’s Anguish List’ — Analysis mark, none, analysis mark, none.
“She never dwelled on things, annoying about the future. It was active in the moment, and it’s consistently been that way. She admired breaking annal and actuality the ‘first.’ No abruptness there. That’s my sis! She consistently strived for excellence.”
From the abatement of 2019, aback Kelly abstruse that she was diagnosed with cancer, there was an awning of family, accompany and PGA of America colleagues who had never met the adolescent woman with the accessible smile and abundant enthusiasm.
“And that’s what agency so abundant to us aback bodies affliction to apperceive about her — who she is and who she was,” said Ashley. “We appetite to accumulate her adventure going, and I do feel it is alarming and article that bodies can apprentice from.”
Brittany had that aftereffect on her boss, too.
Patrick White, the PGA Head Able at Woodland Country Club, alleged Brittany “simply one of the best amazing animal beings I‘ve anytime been around.”
“Throughout this accomplished fight, she never doubted herself. It’s boxy to put into words what she agency to me, my staff, my members,” said White. “I’ve abstruse added about myself activity through her journey.”
Kelly’s aftereffect aloft the agents at Woodland Country Club, said White, “was like a Mother Hen, befitting us all in line.”
“When I attending at a PGA Professional, there’s no one bigger than Brittany Kelly,” he said. “Her skillset. . . There’s no catechism that she could accept taken any operation in the country and not alone ran it, but bigger it.”
Kelly’s bloom action was a connected afflatus to those who may be in a agnate position or bound in anguish about how activity has advised them.
“People that go through so abounding adamantine things, you can consistently apprentice from them aback you are put in that position and you don’t accept any added choice,” said White. “Brittany was able to attending at it in a absolutely altered way and acclimated her attempt as a way to allege to others.”
Born Oct. 10, 1988, in Indianapolis, Brittany Kelly was the youngest of two daughters of Ken and Joni Kelly, a brace who met while acceptance at Brawl Accompaniment University in Muncie, Indiana.
The university would become the cement for the complete Kelly family, with Ashley, 37, her husband, Matt Pogue, and Brittany all Brawl Accompaniment alums all-embracing the basal and white academy colors.
Ken Kelly was a basic pole vaulter, finishing third in the accompaniment afore aggressive at Brawl State, area he accomplished fourth in the Mid-America Conference (MAC). He met his approaching wife, Joni, in academy and didn’t aces up golf in ardent until afterwards his marriage. Soon, Ken was alarming Brittany.
As a advanced 2-year-old, Brittany watched her ancestor hit assurance into the aback yard. Afterwards celebratory him hit and again replacing the tee, Brittany got into the act and became the caddie, punching a tee in the arena and again affairs her arm aback as her ancestor hit a shot.
“When we got artificial clubs for her, she went into the yard, put a brawl bottomward on a tee and had the best admirable swing,” said Joni. “She was alone three years old.”
As she grew in adulation with the game, her parents said, she activate it was article she capital to do. “We never fabricated her practice,” said Joni. “She knew that she bare to practice.”
From 2000 to 2014, Ken accomplished girls’ golf for 15 years at Carmel Aerial Academy and accumulated both the boys and girls golf teams for bristles years during that period. Kelly’s 2013 aggregation captured the accompaniment aerial academy championship.
“I accept a lot of abundant memories in sports, but amid them are apprenticeship a accompaniment best aggregation and 2018, aback Brittany was in the PGA Able Championship in [Seaside] California. It was the aftermost time I caddied for her.”
Brittany’s aboriginal achievements on the advance included aggressive in the 2004 and ‘06 U.S. Girls’ Amateur Championship, and acceptable both the 2006 Indiana PGA Women’s Open and the 2009 Indiana Women’s Golf Association Accompaniment Amateur.
PGA Able Bob Prange was the aboriginal to accord Brittany the accomplished credibility of her golf beat development, affair her aback she was a aerial academy apprentice and he was at the Bridgewater Club in Carmel, Indiana.
“She was actual personable, actual friendly. Consistently had a big smile and admired golf and actuality about golf,. she went on to a abundant career at Brawl State,” said Prange, now a PGA Teaching Able at Hunting Hills Country Club in Roanoke, Virginia. “It was agreeable to assignment with her and absorb time with her. My two daughters competed adjoin her in aerial school, and they enjoyed their time in antagonism with her.”
Kelly fabricated her additional actualization in the PGA Able Championship, aftermost April 25 at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida. She acceptable a anchorage in the 312-player acreage as a affiliate of the 2019 United States Women’s PGA Cup Team.
“When I watched her on TV aftermost April aggressive in the PGA Able Championship in Florida, I saw how adamantine she was aggressive it, grinded it out as she consistently did aback I aboriginal knew her,” said Prange.
Brittany was accession trendsetter in women’s golf at Brawl Accompaniment University, acceptable a backstab Best Valuable Player (2009, ‘10), and the aboriginal changeable golfer in academy history to be called for an NCAA Regional. She became a backstab Academic All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) alternative and a backstab National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar.
She angry able in 2011, and acceptable PGA Membership in 2016.
Brittany was allotment of PGA of America history on Oct. 25, 2019, aggressive in the countdown Women’s PGA Cup at Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas. The U.S. Aggregation was arrive and captained by Suzy Whaley, now PGA Honorary President.
“Brittany exuded accurate joy in aggregate she did,” said Whaley. “Her spirit, competitiveness, grit, and her adroitness will consistently be with me in my heart. As a coach, captain and acquaintance I was so advantaged to be a allotment of Brittany’s world.”
PGA Vice President Jim Lindert wasn’t appointed to appear the 2019 Women’s PGA Cup, but reworked his affairs to attestant the U.S. achievement and accommodated Brittany Kelly. The two developed a accord that became a beck of texts or buzz calls while Kelly battled cancer.
“In the aggregation room, Brittany had that alloy of amusement and alarming conversation, but at the aforementioned point she had that adeptness to affect the aggregation to booty no prisoners and win,” said Lindert, the PGA Director of Golf at the Country Club of Lansing (Michigan). “She aggressive them to accept in themselves. She was the blazon of actuality that aback you airing into a room, and she makes you smile. She had that communicable personality, and that’s article we’re all activity to miss.
“She never already complained about what she was fighting. She would consistently allocution about the positives. I anticipate about the appulse that she’s fabricated in women’s golf.”
“I can go aback to her aggressive in the PGA Able Championship in April, and how arresting was that? She was angry the action of her activity and still arena the bold of her passion. She was consistently cerebration about how to accomplish golf bigger and aback she was clumsy to play, she was cerebration about how she could admonition her accompany to comedy better.”
Among Brittany’s teammates were PGA Master Able Dr. Alison Curdt of Reseda, California, and PGA Able Joanna Coe of Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland.
“I talked to her every day over the accomplished month,” said Curdt, the PGA Director of Instruction at Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley, California. “I asked her, ‘What is your admired golf memory?’ She said, ‘PGA Cup.’ I apperceive our time is limited. My ambition every day was to apprentice as abundant about her as possible, until we don’t get that adventitious anymore.”
Brittany opened the PGA Cup with a 69 to advance the five-team all-embracing acreage with what would become the week’s low alone round. She accomplished with a 74, which was abundant beanbag to admonition her teammates authority off Canada by four acclamation and lift the new argent trophy.
Brittany Kelly at the 2018 Women’s PGA Cup.
“It is by far one of her greatest accomplishments of both of our arena careers, and additionally one of our admired memories,” said Curdt. “It’s nice to comedy that cine reel in my apperception and go aback to that brotherhood and all of our families there.”
Brittany’s bellicism wasn’t bedfast to the apparel the aggregation wore that week, according to Coe, the PGA Director of Instruction at Baltimore Country Club. “It was applicable that she played so well, and had so abundant spirit and affection the complete time. She was hilarious, could additionally be austere and heartfelt, and she was a leader. It says a lot about the base in that girl.”
Coe said that Brittany “inspired all of us to get added complex in PGA leadership. She’s angry for the little guy and to be a articulation for us.”
As the communicable raged in 2020, Kelly would alarm Coe, who approved admonition on her chipping. “She would allotment advice and accelerate me clips that I could use,” said Coe. “Our accord blossomed from there.”
Curdt said that Brittany is “the complete best role model.”
Brittany Kelly (far left) celebrates the Women’s PGA Cup achievement with her teammates.
“She absolutely had the ambition that annihilation was anytime activity to stop her, and to abide to alive activity to the fullest until she wasn’t able to anymore,” said Curdt. “I anticipate those acquaint are invaluable and to accept a associate advise that to us is amazing.”
During the LPGA National Championship aftermost July, Curdt and Coe were amid those allusive for one of the eight spots in the 2022 KPMG [Women’s PGA Championship.]
“We were sending pictures to Brittany, who capital to see what we were up to,” said Curdt. “She arrested in on us daily, asked about our array and pep us up. We concluded up didn’t qualifying, but she was there to acclamation us up.”
Brittany’s able development, said Mike David, was never added abstract than aback he advised her appliance for 2017 Section Assistant Able of the Year.
“I was addled at how far her abilities went above playing. She was complex in aggregate at the club,” said David. “Working with her on the Indiana PGA Board of Directors, I saw her affection for the game, the affection for the PGA, and demography on any task. Throughout the accomplished action of her illness, her perseverance, her optimism, has been unwavering.”
During the aftermost year of her illness, Kelly wore a azure wristband with the inscription “BK Strong,” a admonition of her doubtful journey, a adamant spirit and to apostle for ovarian blight awareness.
The wristband absolutely could accept been a signature allotment for Kelly throughout her life.
“She bogus so abundant positivity,” said Joni Kelly. “Whenever we would accept got together, it was ‘When will Britt get here?’ She would consistently be the one who knew how to get things going.”
Joni was the babe of parents who admired the bold and were successful, and who anniversary recorded a hole-in-one in a agenda year.
“If I hit a bad shot, she would say, “Oh, that’s OK. Try accession one. I abutting a Ladies Alliance at Ironwood, and am accepting a little bit better. Because of her, I got aback into it. I accept that anamnesis of her and account what she’s done.
“Britt fabricated golf so abundant fun that aback you hit a bad shot, she would bound say, ‘Oh, that’s OK, try accession one.’ I concluded up adequate the bold that abundant more, abutting a ladies alliance and got a little bit better. Because of her, I got aback into it. I accept that anamnesis of her and account what she’s done.”
Diagnosed in January 2020 with Stage 1 Bright Cell ovarian cancer, Kelly acicular to the PGA Able Championship anytime since. For Kelly, aggressive was as abundant a allotment of her architecture as it became the best anatomy of treatment.
“I’ll abide to assurance in God’s abundant plan and amount out the blow forth the way,” said Brittany in April.
Brittany kept those who accurate her on a GoFundMe Page — complete by her sister, Ashley to admonition with her ascent medical costs — autograph a account blog while she had the strength.
“I was sitting with her aback auberge affliction accustomed at home, and the nurses arrested her area her affliction was, and asked, on a calibration of 1 to 10, what is your pain?,” said Ashley. “She said, ‘7.’ I accept apparent her in affliction and I thought, ‘How in the apple does she say 7 aback it is added like a 10?’
She has gone through so much, and authority it in and be able for all of us.”
That close backbone and resolve, so abundant the DNA of Brittany Kelly, comes from a admixture of personalities, said Ashley. “I see my mom and my grandpa in her. She was bright what she capital and actual brave. A able actuality is what we saw in her weakest moments.”
Kelly’s blight was apparent afterwards she recorded a division of claimed milestones.
In 2019, she able for her aboriginal LPGA above championship, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, won the Indiana Women’s Open and helped the U.S. win the Women’s PGA Cup.
In addition, she became the aboriginal woman to win the Indiana PGA Assistant Able Championship.
Following the Americans’ achievement in the Women’s PGA Cup, a columnist asked the aggregation to jump in accord abreast the aflame trophy. Brittany was in abounding flight at the acme of a hill, affected adjoin a ablaze dejected Texas sky.
“One of my fondest memories is that acceptable smile and that absurd able-bodied jump afterwards we won,” said Whaley. “That is how Brittany should consistently be remembered. For me, she will always abide an absurd allowance that came into my life.”
On Sept. 7, Woodland Country Club will host its additional Ribbon Pro-Member event, committed to Brittany and her family. The acreage will accommodate several Women’s PGA Cup teammates and Whaley.
And there is one added appropriate honor, now posthumously. On Sept. 14, a year afterwards its commemoration had to be adjourned due to the pandemic, Brittany becomes the aboriginal woman golfer inducted into the Brawl Accompaniment Athletics Hall of Fame.
Brittany Kelly is survived by her parents, Ken and Joni, sister, Ashley, brother-in-law, Matt Pogue, and two nieces, Kaylee and Kinsey.
Funeral casework for Brittany Kelly will be at East 91st Street Christian Church, 6049 E. 91st Street in Indianapolis. Calling and appearance is Thursday, Sept. 9, from 4-8 p.m.
A burial account will activate Friday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m., followed by a graveside account at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, 9700 Allisonville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250.
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