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Cristie Kerr: Victories
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Before Cristie Kerr won the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in North Carolina in July, her biggest victory came in the Battle of the Bulge. Some pros overhaul their swings; Kerr overhauled her physique. Struggling early in her career, the 5-foot-3 Kerr had ballooned to 175 pounds by 1999. A self-described “four-eyed fatty,” Kerr hired a nutritionist and strength coach. She dropped 50 pounds and lost the glasses, completely transforming herself and her game.
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Cristie Kerr's improvement showed because in 2000 she moved up to No. 15 on the money list, her first victory came in 2002 in wire-to-wire fashion, and she made her first Solheim Cup appearance. Still steadily improving, in 2004 Cristie won three times along with two runner-up finishes. Cristie Kerr won twice more in 2005 with six Top 3 finishes, added another three victories in 2006, and Cristie broke through for her first major championship victory, holding steady down the stretch to win the 2007 U.S. Women's Open by two strokes.
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Kerr shook off 12 years' worth of frustration in consistent, cool fashion. During their compelling duel along the back nine of Pine Needles, she stared down the world's No. 1 player and forced her into a series of mistakes that resulted in a two-stroke victory Sunday and Kerr's first U.S. Women's Open championship.
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Kerr was ... a member of the United States Solheim Cup team in 2002, 2003 and 2005. In July 2007, Kerr earned her first major championship with a victory at the 62nd US Women's Open with a final-round of 1-under 70 and a total score of 5-under 279.
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[I]t is not a happy time for Team Wie, but if there was a sliver of optimism coming out of the US Women's Open, it should have been the victory by Cristie Kerr. After all, years before Wie was a teenage phenom, Kerr was. It was in June 1996, not long after she was low amateur at the US Women's Open, when 18-year-old Kerr basically went from her high school graduation to pro golf.
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After two previous high finishes in the event, a tie for sixth last year and a second to champion Grace Park in 2003, Kerr picked up her fifth career victory and the accompanying $330,000 winner’s check. The victory margin was the largest in the event’s three-year history at Kingsmill.
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