GLOBALTOURNAMENTNEWS LPGA CHAMPIONSHIP Presented by Wegmans Locust Hill CC, June 24-27
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Cristie Kerr rocked the LPGA Championship Presented by Wegmans, winning by a commanding 12-strokes over SongHee Kim. Kerr captured her second major championship in style with rounds of 68-66-69-66 and broke the record for the largest winning margin in LPGA Championship history. The previous record of 11 shots was held by Betsy King in 1992. Kerr is now the owner of 14 LPGA tournament titles and became the first American player to top the Rolex World Rankings thanks to her win. Kerr held a share of the first-round lead with Stacy Lewis and Seon-Hwa Lee and never relinquished it. She stretched her lead to five after a second-round 66 and to an impressive eight shots after a third-round 69. Kerr started her professional career on the Duramed Futures Tour in 1996 and was an LPGA rookie in 1997. A tough inaugural season sent Kerr back to the LPGA qualifying school in the fall of 1998 where she earned comedalist honors with SeRi Pak and exempt status for the 1998 season. It took Kerr nearly five more years to become a Rolex First-Time winner at the 2002 Longs Drugs Challenge. She next won the Takefuji Classic in 2004 and proceeded to win two more tournaments that year. Kerr has not had a season without a win since. She captured her first major championship title with a two-shot victory at the 2007 US.= Women’s Open at Pine Needles Country Club in Pinehurst, N.C.
US WOMENS OPEN Oakmont CC, July 8-11
Paula Creamer held on to win the US Women's Open and claim her first major tournament victory. Creamer, only 23 but long considered the best women's golfer to not win a major, went into the final round at sunny Oakmont Country Club with a three-shot lead that never dwindled below two shots. She played 23 holes on the final day with a sore left thumb, including the final five holes of the weather-delayed third round. Her final-round, 2-under 69 gave her a 3-under 281 for the tournament. Na Yeon Choi of South Korea and Suzann Pettersen of Norway tied for second at 1-over 285. Limited to 40 practice shots before each round by a still-healing hyperextended left thumb that required surgery in February, the 23-year-old Creamer found the best possible way to limit the pounding on her hand: take as few strokes as possible. Creamer, known as the Pink Panther for all-pink attire, improved on the 75 she averaged during previous Women's Open final rounds. She faded badly near the finish the last two years, and missed the cut at last week's Jamie Farr Classic won by Choi. But this time she was as strong as her thumb is weak. "I was in pain, but I was trying to do everything to not think about it," Creamer said. Her lead briefly down to two strokes after four holes, her two biggest confidence-building shots of the day might have been long, par-saving putts on No. 7 and 8 – even as Choi was charging with the tournament's secondbest round. Song-Hee Kim had a 65 in the final round and finished 13th. 1 2 2 4 5 5 5 8 8 10 72
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