[4] Under Haney's tutelage he won back-to-back Texas high school golf championships, an achievement shared with Justin Leonard, Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.
Amateur, Kuehne found he was unwilling to make the sacrifices demanded in a professional golfer's life, and concentrated instead on a career in finance after graduating with an MBA in 1997.
[5][15] Thirteen years after his Masters Tournament debut as runner-up to Woods, he returned to the Augusta National Golf Club in 2008,[16] this time by beating Dan Whitaker 9&7 at the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon to qualify.
[17] The fulfillment of his ambition to "take my boy to the Masters",[8] along with his other 2007 successes—he was on the winning Walker Cup team for the first time, and helped Texas retain the USGA state team title[7]—led him to make Augusta the scene of his final competitive tournament before retirement.
His father is a successful lawyer and businessman who says he was a hard-driving parent: "I don't think my kids are competitive by accident.
[5][21] His sister Kelli scored back-to-back victories at the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1995 and 1996 before turning pro in 1998,[22] while brother Hank, before joining the PGA Tour in 1999,[23] won the 1998 U.S.
[1] He lives with wife Dusti and son Will in Irving, Texas,[24] and owns his own Dallas-based investment management company, Double Eagle Capital,[25] which he started in 2005 after working as a hedge fund manager for Legg Mason.