Brenda Corrie Kuehn

USGA Executive Committee

Brenda Corrie Kuehn, of Asheville, N.C., is in her first year of a three-year term on the USGA Executive Committee.

Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, Carmen Leon, and an American father, Jack Corrie, she grew up on the Caribbean island until 1991. In 1983, she enrolled at Wake Forest University to play for the school's women's golf team, where she earned a business degree (1986), and was a captain and three-year letterman for the Demon Deacons. While playing at Wake Forest, she claimed six individual titles (fourth-most in program history), was a three-time All-American, and captured the 1986 Atlantic Coast Conference individual title while also leading the Demon Deacons to the team crown. She has been enshrined in the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, the NCAA Golf Coaches Hall of Fame, the Dominican Golf Hall of Fame and the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame, where she joins her father as the only two golfers in the 65-year history of the institution. Jack Corrie was also a standout golfer who competed for Venezuela in the inaugural World Amateur Team Championship in 1958 on the Old Course at St. Andrews.

After a brief professional career highlighted by one win, she applied to regain her amateur status in 1989. Corrie Kuehn then attended Boston College, where she earned an MBA in 1990.

The following year, she married her college sweetheart, Eric Kuehn, a radiation oncologist and former member of the Wake Forest baseball team. The couple relocated to Gainesville, Fla., where he completed his medical training. At that time, Brenda founded Stateside Services Inc, an international expert service company which serviced eight countries in a variety of industries. In 1995, the couple moved to Asheville, N.C., where she continued to grow her company and began competing on a national level again. In 1996 and 1998, she was selected to the USA Curtis Cup Team and USA Women's World Amateur Team, and she later represented her birth country of the Dominican Republic at the 2018 Women's World Amateur Team Championship after previously representing the country in 1996..

In 2003, Corrie Kuehn refocused her efforts to raising her young children and closed her export company. Upon her father's passing in 2005, with the help of her sister, they took over the family investment firm. Along with her business responsibilities, she remained committed to raising her three children, Corrie, Rachel and Taylor, all accomplished golfers in their own merit. Rachel competed on three USA Curtis Cup Teams (2021, 2022 and 2024) and starred at Wake Forest, her mom's alma mater.

Corrie Kuehn has also served at the board level at a variety of organizations, including the Corrie Foundation, Las Lagunas Golf Club, Henla Family Office, and Valores Leon, a bond-trading company.

As a competitor, she has competed in 60 USGA championships, including nine U.S. Women's Opens, 15 U.S. Women's Amateurs, 18 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateurs, two U.S. Senior Women's Opens and five U.S. Senior Women's Amateurs. She competed in the 2001 U.S. Women's Open at Pine Needles while eight months pregnant with Rachel. Twice, Corrie Kuehn has been named the Carolinas Golf Association's Women Golfer of the Year, and she has captured two Women's Carolinas Amateurs and two North Carolina Senior Women's Amateur titles. Corrie Kuehn still competes on a regional and national level, having reached the final of the 2023 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur at Troon Country Club, in Scottsdale, Ariz. She also was the runner-up in the 1995 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur to 2026 USGA Bob Jones Award recipient Ellen Port. 

Brenda and Eric have been members of Biltmore Forest Country Club since 1996. They also have memberships at La Romana Country Club, Punta Espada Golf Club and Santo Domingo Country Club in the Dominican Republic. She also is a recent member of the Carolina Golf Association Executive Committee and remains an ardent supporter of junior and women's golf in the Carolinas.

In 2026, Correi Kuehn will serve on the Championship, Amateur Status and Investment committees.