Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:44 by Rakhi
Guadalajara, Mexico -- Cristie Kerr, who has been in a battle for the No. 1 world ranking this year, took a three-shot lead Thursday after one round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
Kerr fired a course-record 64 at the Guadalajara Country Club, breaking the old mark of 65 first set by Brittany Lang in 2008. Stacy Lewis was alone in second place with a 67.
Kerr went into the tournament ranked third in the world after having been briefly No. 1 this year. Current No. 1 Jiyai Shin is not playing this week while No. 2 Yani Tseng shot a 76 to open the tournament.
Na Yeon Choi, ranked fourth in the world, had a 68 and shared third place with Katherine Hull, Paula Creamer and Ai Miyazato.
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Tue, 11/02/2010 - 08:16 by Prince damin
Daytona Beach, Fla. -- Jiyai Shin once again passed Cristie Kerr and reclaimed the No. 1 position Monday in the world women's golf rankings.
Shin tied for fourth at the LPGA Hana Bank Championship in South Korea and, with Kerr three strokes back and tied for 12th, was able to move to the top spot. Kerr had taken over the No. 1 position from Ai Miyazato last week.
The leading players are still bunched, however, and additional switches are likely as the season winds down. Eight players in the Top 10 changed places this week.
Shin has a rankings point average of 10.86 while Kerr is at 10.64. Suzann Pettersen (10.52) moved into the No. 3 spot and Miyazato (10.50) is fourth.
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Mon, 10/25/2010 - 22:25 by Prince damin
Daytona Beach, Fla. -- Cristie Kerr returned to the No. 1 spot in the world women's golf rankings, with Jiyai Shin moving up to second and Ai Miyazato dropping to third.
Kerr, who finished eighth at last week's LPGA event in Malaysia, was No. 1 for one week in August before Miyazato took over. She was also ranked on top for three weeks in June and July.
While she's back at No. 1 as of Monday, she owns just a narrow lead for the top spot. Kerr has a ratings point average of 10.88, while Shin is at 10.76 and Miyazato's average is 10.63.
One of those three golfers -- Shin and Miyazato for 10 weeks each and Kerr for five -- has been ranked No. 1 since Lorena Ochoa retired this spring.
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Mon, 10/18/2010 - 21:10 by harsheeb
Daytona beach -- Cristie Kerr edged closer to top-ranked Ai Miyazato in the women's world golf rankings released Monday.
Miyazato has been atop the rankings for the last nine weeks -- the longest stretch for one player at No. 1 since Lorena Ochoa retired in April -- but is barely ahead of Kerr, whom Miyazato replaced at No. 1 on Aug. 23. Miyazato has a 10.9 average rating compared to Kerr's 10.81.
Kerr finished in a tie for fifth at the LPGA's CVS/pharmacy in Danville, Calif. But she was one of only two Top 10 players who entered the event. The other was Paula Creamer, whose tie for 25th contributed to her drop from 10th to 11th in the rankings.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 06:20 by Prince damin
Prativile, Ala. -- Cristie Kerr got closer to her third win of the season Saturday, claiming a 3-stroke lead after three rounds of the Navistar LPGA Classic.
Kerr shot her second straight round of 5-under 67, finishing 54 holes at 17-under-par 199 -- a new tournament record low, besting Lorena Ochoa's old mark of 200, which was set last year.
After sharing the second-round lead with Na Yeon Choi and Mika Miyazato, Kerr got hot on the front nine with six birdies. She could have posted a 4-stroke advantage but stumbled to a bogey on the final hole.
Choi shot 2-under 70 to forge a second-place tie with Katherine Hull (67) at 14-under 202.
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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 08:24 by harsheeb
Prattville -- Cristie Kerr shot her second straight solid round Friday and clung to a share of the lead after 36 holes at the Navistar LPGA Classic.
Kerr, twice a winner this year -- with one of the victories coming at the LPGA Championship -- is trying to move up from her current No. 3 position in the world rankings.
Kerr had a 67 Friday and completed two rounds at the Capitol Hill Golf Club at 12-under 132, tied with Mika Miyazato and Na Yeon Choi. Miyazato shot a 63 that equaled the course record held by five other players.
Choi birdied her last four holes to move into a deadlock for the top spot. She won her third tour event this year at age 22.
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Fri, 10/08/2010 - 09:55 by Prince damin
Prattville, Ala. -- Cristie Kerr, who has battled for the top spot in the world rankings throughout the year, took the lead Thursday after one round of the Navistar LPGA Classic.Cristie
Kerr shot a 7-under 65 over the Capitol Hill Golf Club course, one shot in front of Morgan Pressel, Dorothy Delasin and Anna Nordqvist.
Going into this week's tournament, Kerr was ranked third in the world behind Ai Miyazato and Jiyai Shin.
Kerr, who briefly held the No. 1 spot during the summer, played a bogey-free round that included four birdies in a five-hole stretch starting at the fifth. She also birdied three of the last four.
Miyazato shot a 70 and was tied for 38th place. Shin is not entered this week, nor is Michelle Wie.
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Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:46 by harsheeb
DaytonaBeach -- Cristie Kerr moved back to the No. 2 position in the world women's golf rankings released Monday after the year's final major tournament.
Kerr finished tied for fifth at the Women's British Open, five strokes behind tournament champion Yani Tseng. Combined with Ai Miyazato's tie for ninth, Kerr's result allowed her to move from third to second in the rankings.
Miyazato slipped from second to third while Jiyai Shin retained the No. 1 ranking and Suzann Pettersen, who tied with Shin for 14th in the British event, kept the No. 4 spot.
Tseng is still No. 5 and Choi Na-yeon, who tied for third, is sixth and Paula Creamer remained seventh.
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Sat, 07/10/2010 - 10:10 by Pankaj Damin
Oakmont, Pa. -- Brittany Lang and Cristie Kerr shared the clubhouse lead Friday when thunderstorms forced a suspension of play in the second round of the U.S. Women's Open.
Lang and Kerr had completed 36 holes over the difficult Oakmont Country Club course at 1-over 143. Lang, the first-round leader, fired a 74 and Kerr, the runaway winner last month at the LPGA Championship, shot a 71.
The only player in front of Lang and Kerr on the leader board was Sophie Gustafson, but she faced a long day of golf Saturday when the second round was scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. EDT.
Gustafson was even par for the tournament through one hole of the second round. Only two sub-par rounds have been shot thus far in the most significant event in women's golf.
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Mon, 06/28/2010 - 22:24 by Inderjit Singh
Daytona Beach -- Cristie Kerr's record-setting victory at the LPGA Championship propelled her to the world No. 1 ranking among women golfers.
Kerr went from fifth to first in rankings released Monday. She is the first American to be ranked No. 1and fifth woman to win the top spot.
Annika Sorenstam was No. 1 the first 60 weeks of the ranking and Lorena Ochoa occupied the top position for 158 weeks until her retirement this year. Jiyai Shin took over for seven weeks but was passed by Ai Miyazato last week.
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Mon, 06/28/2010 - 22:07 by Inderjit Singh
Daytona Beach-- Cristie Kerr's record-setting victory at the LPGA Championship propelled her to the world No. 1 ranking among women golfers.
Kerr went from fifth to first in rankings released Monday. She is the first American to be ranked No. 1and fifth woman to win the top spot.
Annika Sorenstam was No. 1 the first 60 weeks of the ranking and Lorena Ochoa occupied the top position for 158 weeks until her retirement this year. Jiyai Shin took over for seven weeks but was passed by Ai Miyazato last week.
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Mon, 06/28/2010 - 09:49 by Rakhi
Pittsford, N.Y. -- Cristie Kerr completed a dominating victory in the LPGA Championship Sunday, firing a 6-under-par 66 to post a record-breaking 12-stroke win.
Kerr, whose only other major LPGA title came at the 2007 U.S. Women's Open, increased her third-round lead of eight shots by four. She set a tournament scoring record by finishing 19 strokes under par at 269.
With the amazing performance -- her second win in three starts -- she also earned the No. 1 spot in this week's women's world rankings.
Song-Hee Kim shot a 3-under 69 at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y., to finish a distant second at 7-under 281 and former world No. 1 Ai Miyazato registered a 6-under 66 to share third place with Jiyai Shin (71) at minus-5.
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