All About Cristie Kerr

August 31st, 2007 by Racer

Cristie Kerr (born October 12, 1977 in Miami, Florida) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur:

Kerr started playing golf at the age of eight. She had a very successful amateur career, won the 1994 Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship[1] and was the 1995 American Junior Golf Association Junior Player of the Year. In 1996 she played in the Curtis Cup and was the low amateur at the U.S. Women’s Open. She graduated from Miami Sunset High School in West Kendall, Florida.

Professional:

Kerr turned professional in 1996, playing on both the Futures Tour and Players West Tour. Her first professional victory came at the Ironwood FUTURES Classic in 1996. Late in 1996 she tied for sixth at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to gain exempt status for 1997. Her LPGA career started fairly slowly. It took her three years to make the top fifty on the money list, but in 2002 she won for the first time on the LPGA at the Longs Drugs Challenge. By 2004 she was one of the leading players on the tour, with three tournament victories, and a fifth place finish on the money list. She won two tournaments in 2005 and moved up to third on the money list. She tied for second at the 2000 U.S. Women’s Open matched by her performance in the 2006 Women’s British Open. Her first win of 2006 came at the Franklin American Mortgage Championship where she posted a tournament-record score of 19 under par. To date, Kerr has ten wins on the LPGA Tour. In 2006, she was the only American to win more than one event on the LPGA Tour, winning three times (Americans won only seven of that year’s 33 events). In 2007, she won the United States Women’s Open Championship, her first major championship.

She was also a member of the United States Solheim Cup team in 2002, 2003 and 2005.

The hallmarks of Kerr’s game are putting; she finished in the top 5 on the LPGA Tour in putts/greens hit in 2005 and 2006 and iron play. She was 5th in greens-in-regulation in 2005. She is also among the longest hitters on the tour, though the other players have caught up to her in recent years. In 2003, Kerr switched to newer Callaway Golf equipment after playing with the same clubs for the previous seven years, and the move coincided with a sharp increase in wins and earnings on tour. In 2005, Kerr finished in the top 10 in half of the tournaments she entered, and ranked second in the LPGA in scoring average, trailing only Annika Sörenstam.

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2007 Football (Soccer) Events

August 31st, 2007 by Racer

The following are the scheduled events of football (soccer) for the year 2007 throughout the world.

February 13-April 26 - CONCACAF Champions’ Cup 2007.
March 24- The newly re-created Montenegro national football team won its first game against Hungary.
May 16 - UEFA Cup 2006-07 Final in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 23 - UEFA Champions League 2006-07 Final in Athens, Greece.
6-June 24 - 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup in USA.
10-June 23 - UEFA U-21 Championship 2007 in Netherlands.
June 26-July 15 - Copa America 2007 in Venezuela.
7-29 July - Asian Cup 2007, held for the first time in four nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
30 June-22 July - 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
July 24-August 29 - 2007 North American SuperLiga in USA, inaugural year of US/Mexico club competition.
August 18–September 9: 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea.
10-September 30 - FIFA Women’s World Cup 2007 in China.
UEFA U-17 Championship 2007 in Belgium.

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Major Men’s Golf Tournaments 2007

August 31st, 2007 by Racer

Major championships

5-8 April: The Masters - American Zach Johnson won his first major tournament, in a high scoring week at Augusta.
14-17 June: U.S. Open - Ángel Cabrera becomes Argentina’s first U.S. Open winner, claiming a victory by one stroke.
19-22 July: The Open Championship - Pádraig Harrington becomes the first European major winner of the 21st century, defeating Sergio García in a playoff.
9-12 August: PGA Championship - Tiger Woods wins his 4th PGA Champtionship and 13th major.
World Golf Championships

19-25 February: WGC-Accenture World Match Play Championship - Swede Henrik Stenson defeated defending champion Geoff Ogilvy 2 and 1. Stenson moved up to fifth in the world rankings, the highest position ever attained by a Swedish golfer.[1] For the first time at this event no American made the final, and Chad Campbell was the only American quarterfinalist. He finished fourth after losing the playoff match to Trevor Immelman of South Africa.
22-25 March WGC-CA Championship - Tiger Woods won the event for the third consecutive year, and for the sixth time in his career.
2-5 August: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational - Tiger Woods repeats his CA Championship success and wins the event for the third consecutive year.
FedEx Cup playoff events

23-26 August: The Barclays - Steve Stricker wins by two shots and takes the FedEx Cup points lead.
31 August-3 September: Deutsche Bank Championship -
6-9 September: BMW Championship -
13-16 September: The Tour Championship -
Other leading PGA Tour events

10-13 May: THE PLAYERS Championship - American Phil Mickelson won his first PLAYERS Championship with a final round 3-under-par 69. It was the 31st win of Mickelson’s career.

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