FRISCO, Texas — The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship annually sees LPGA and PGA teaching professionals compete alongside the world’s top athletes, making the 156-player field one of the most unique compilations of professional golfers on the LPGA Tour schedule. The 2025 Corebridge Financial Team is comprised of 10 LPGA Professionals and PGA of America members who qualified for this major championship because of their on-course performances across both the 2024 and 2025 seasons.

Meet those 10 pros and learn more about how they are growing the game of golf via the contributions they make to their respective facilities on a daily basis.

Heather Angell

Hometown: Winston Salem, N.C.

PGA Section: South Florida

Facility: The Golf Club at Fiddler's Creek, Naples, Fla.

Heather Angell currently serves as the Director of Instruction at The Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek in Naples, Fla., and secured her spot in the field at the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship because of her finish in the LPGA Professionals National Championship in 2024. She is making her second start in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, having competed in the 2018 edition of the major championship at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Illinois.

Angell is a two-time winner of the South Florida PGA Southwest Chapter Teacher of the Year award, earning the honor in 2021 and 2024, and was the South Florida PGA Women’s Player of the Year in 2022. She is also an Epson Tour alum.

Sandra Changkija

Hometown: Alexandra, Va.

LPGA Section: Southeast

PGA Section: North Florida

Facility: Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, Orlando, Fla.

Sandra Changkija is an assistant golf professional at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando, Fla., which annually hosts the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on the LPGA Tour. Her performance at the 2024 LPGA Professionals National Championship earned the Virginia native a spot in her fifth consecutive KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, as Changkija qualified for this major championship in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

She is a three-time winner of the PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship (2021-2023) and the North Florida PGA Section Championship (2022-2024). Changkija is a former LPGA Tour member, first joining the organization in 2012, but she has not competed on Tour since the 2019 season.

Joanna Coe

Hometown: Mays Landing, N.J.

PGA Section: Philadelphia

Facility: Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa.

Joanna Coe is the Director of Instruction at the famous Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania and is teeing it up in her sixth KPMG Women’s PGA Championship this week at PGA Frisco, what is her first appearance in the major tournament since the 2023 edition of the event that was held at Baltusrol Golf Club’s Lower Course. Coe competed in the ShopRite LPGA Classic earlier this season after Monday qualifying for the longstanding tournament that is annually contested just outside of Atlantic City, N.J.

Coe is a six-time Mid-Atlantic PGA Section Women’s Player of the Year, has won the Middle-Atlantic PGA Women’s Championship twice and has been a member of three U.S. Women’s PGA Cup Teams. Coe is a former member of the Epson Tour, the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA.

Dr. Alison Curdt

Hometown: St. Louis, Mo.

LPGA Section: Western Section

PGA Section: Southern California

Facility: Wood Ranch Golf Club, Simi Valley, Calif.

Dr. Alison Curdt is currently serving as the Director of Instruction at Wood Ranch Golf Club in California and is both an LPGA Master Professional and a PGA Master Professional in Instruction. She is the president of the Southern California PGA Section, the first woman to hold that leadership position, and the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship marks her eighth appearance in this prestigious event.

Dr. Curdt has won three Southern California PGA Women’s Section Championships and has been named the Southern California PGA Women’s Player of the Year an impressive seven times throughout her career.

Nicole Felce

Hometown: Clearwater, Fla.

LPGA Section: Southeast

Facility: Countryside Country Club, Clearwater, Fla.

Twenty-year-old Nicole Felce is teeing it up for the first time in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship this week at PGA Frisco, having finished runner-up at the LPGA Professionals National Championship in 2024. She is currently an assistant professional at Countryside Country Club in Clearwater, Fla. Felce is a Class A Member of the LPGA Professionals, just recently completing her certification with the organization.

Ashley Grier

Hometown: Waynesboro, Pa.

PGA Section: South Florida

Facility: The Legacy Golf and Tennis Club, Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Ashley Grier is an assistant professional at The Legacy Golf and Tennis Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and is teeing it up in her fifth KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Fields Ranch East. Grier won in a playoff at the 2024 LPGA Professionals National Championship to secure her spot in this year’s field in Texas.

The Pennsylvania native has been named the Middle Atlantic PGA Women’s Player of the Year seven times, and she was recognized as the Middle Atlantic PGA Women’s Player of the Year in 2020. Grier also won the 2021 Women’s Philadelphia PGA Championship and is a former member of the Epson Tour.

Allie Knight

Hometown: Knoxville, Tenn.

LPGA Section: Midwest

PGA Section: Tennessee

Facility: Fairways and Greens Golf Center, Knoxville, Tenn.

Allie Knight is a teaching professional in Knoxville, Tenn., at the Fairways and Greens Golf Center and earned her spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field because of her finish at the 2024 LPGA Professionals National Championship. She has competed in the last four editions of this major championship in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and won the Tennessee PGA Section Knoxville Chapter Championship back in 2022.

Knight competed on the Epson Tour after joining the organization in 2016, most recently teeing it up on the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA in 2023.

Katelyn Sepmoree

Hometown: Tyler, Texas

PGA Section: Northern Texas

Facility: Willow Brook Country Club, Tyler, Texas

Katelyn Sepmoree won the 2025 PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship to secure her spot in the field this year at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The 2023 season saw Sepmoree win the Eastern Championship in the Northern Texas PGA Section, marking the first time in history a female had won an individual major in that section. She was recognized as the Northern Texas PGA Woman Player of the Year in 2024.

Sepmoree has competed on the LPGA Tour, most recently doing so at the 2021 Volunteers of America Classic, and also was a member of the Epson Tour, making her last start on the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA in 2020. She is currently serving as a first assistant professional at Willow Brook Country Club in Tyler, Texas, and this year will mark her debut in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

Natalie Vivaldi

Hometown: Oceanside, Calif.

PGA Section: Southern California

Facility: Emerald Isle Golf Course, Oceanside, Calif.

This week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is the first time that Natalie Vivaldi will be competing in a major championship on the LPGA Tour, but the California native has played in several Epson Tour events, last doing so during the 2020 season.

Vivaldi earned Southern California PGA Women’s Player of the Year honors in 2024 and won the Southern California PGA Women’s Match Play Championship in 2023. She was recognized with the TaylorMade National Rising Star Award in 2023. Vivaldi is the Director of Instruction at Emerald Isle Golf Course in Oceanside, Calif.

Allie White

Hometown: Lancaster, Ohio

LPGA Section: Midwest

Facility: Lancaster Golf Club, Lancaster, Ohio

Allie White won her second consecutive LPGA Professionals National Championship title in 2024 to secure a spot in the field at the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco. The Ohio native made her debut in this major championship in 2024 at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash., and will be working to make the cut for the first time this week.

White is the Director of Golf at Lancaster Golf Club in her home state, having turned her focus to her membership with the LPGA Professionals after wrapping up her career on the Epson Tour. She has not competed on the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA since the 2023 Island Resort Championship. White has also played in several LPGA Tour events, most recently doing so at the 2024 Dana Open at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, where she ultimately made the cut.

2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship: Meet the LPGA and PGA Professionals Competing at PGA Frisco

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