Kitrina Douglas

{{short description|English professional golfer (born 1960)}} {{use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox golfer | name = Kitrina Douglas | image = | imagesize =  | caption = | fullname = | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|9|6|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | height =  | weight = | nationality = {{ENG}} | residence = | spouse = | partner = | children = | college = | yearpro = 1984 | tour =  | extour = Ladies European Tour | prowins = 8 | lpgawins =  | letwins = 8 | jlpgawins =  | klpgawins =  | lagtwins =  | alpgwins =  | futwins =  | otherwins =  | majorwins =  | nabisco = CUT: 1985, 1990 | lpga = DNP | wusopen = DNP | dumaurier = DNP | wghofid =  | wghofyear =  | award1 = Ladies European Tour<br>Rookie of the Year | year1 = 1984 | award2 = | year2 = | awardssection =  }} '''Kitrina Douglas''' (born 6 September 1960)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Golfer's Handbook 1993 |publisher=Macmillan London Ltd |year=1993 |page=318}}</ref> is an English professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour from 1984 to 1996.

Douglas won the British Ladies Amateur in 1982<ref name="BritAm">{{cite web |title=British Ladies' Open Amateur Championships - Past Winners |publisher=Ladies Golf Union |url=http://www.ladiesgolf.co.uk/lgusite/britishpastwinners.htm |access-date=2007-04-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103959/http://www.ladiesgolf.co.uk/lgusite/britishpastwinners.htm |archivedate=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and played in the 1982 Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team.<ref name="1982Curt">{{cite web |title=1982 Curtis Cup Match |publisher=United States Golf Association |url=http://www.curtiscup.org/2004/history/us_teams/1982.html |access-date=2007-04-24}}</ref> She played professionally on the Ladies European Tour, where she won eight times and was a member of the winning 1992 European Solheim Cup team.<ref name="Sol92">{{cite web |title=1990-2003 Solheim Cup Teams |publisher=LPGA |url=http://www.lpga.com/content/Teams,%20Members,%20WinLoss%20Records.pdf |access-date=2007-04-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616121312/http://www.lpga.com/content/Teams%2C%20Members%2C%20WinLoss%20Records.pdf |archivedate=2007-06-16}}</ref>

Douglas started working for the BBC Radio Five Live and covered the British Mens open, US PGA Championship and Ryder Cups, later she also became a BBC Sport Online golf columnist<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |title=Solheim rivalry hotting up |work=BBC Sport |first=Kitrina |last=Douglas |date=2002-09-19 |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/2269033.stm |access-date=2007-04-24}}</ref> In 1996, Douglas left the Ladies European Tour and began a BSc (Hons) in Exercise and Sport Science at the University of Exeter, following this completed a PhD studying women's motivation in sport. In 2004, Douglas was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in psychology from the University of Bristol. She continues to carry out research within and outside of sport and over the past 20 years has carried out research for a variety of organisations including Department of Health, Addiction Recovery Agency, Royal British Legion, Women's Sports Foundation, UK Sport, local authority and NHS Primary Mental Health Care Trusts. Her research is published in peer-reviewed journals and she has also co-authored three academic books, "Sport and physical activity for mental health", "Life story research in sport" and "Autoethnography, Pedagogy & Practice". One of the main issues covered in Douglas's recent research is how to make research more accessible to the public and, alongside this, how to include in findings things that are difficult to talk about. To this end she has written songs, poems and performance from her research, a selection of which can be found on youtube.<ref name="PhD">{{cite web |title=Department of Exercise & Health Sciences |publisher=University of Bristol |url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/ehs/staff/ken_fox/viewTeaching |access-date=2007-04-24}}</ref> She is now a professor of Narrative and Performative Research at the University of West London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Kitrina Douglas |url=https://www.uwl.ac.uk/staff/kitrina-douglas |access-date=2024-01-24 |publisher=University of West London}}</ref>

==Professional wins (8)== ===Ladies European Tour wins (8)=== *1984 (2) Ford Ladies' Classic, Höganäs Sweden Open *1986 (1) Mitsubishi Colt Cars Jersey Open *1987 (1) Hennessy Cognac Ladies Cup *1989 (2) St Moritz Classic, Godiva European Masters *1991 (1) Ladies English Open *1992 (1) BMW European Masters

==Team appearances== '''Amateur''' *European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing England): 1982 (winners) *Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1982 *Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1983 (winners) *European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 1983

'''Professional''' *Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 1992 (winners)

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==External links== *[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/enhs/people/kitrina-douglas.html University of Bristol profile]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Douglas, Kitrina}} Category:English female golfers Category:Ladies European Tour golfers Category:Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships Category:Solheim Cup competitors for Europe Category:English psychologists Category:Academics of the University of Bristol Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century English sportswomen