2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship: Morgan Pressel wins at Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course)
Morgan Pressel won the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage, California, United States with 285 (−3), by 1 stroke over Brittany Lincicome and Catriona Matthew and Suzann Pettersen.
Updated October 23, 2026
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- Dates
- March 29, 2007 to April 1, 2007
- Course
- Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage, California, United States
- Edition
- 36th edition
- Counted as a major
- yes
- Format
- stroke play, 4 rounds
- Par
- 72 · 6,673 yards
- Field
- 101
- Made the cut
- 72 (cut at 153)
- Purse
- $2,000,000 · winner's share $300,000
- Champion
- Morgan Pressel · age 18 · United States · born Tampa, Florida, United States
- Champion's title
- 1st title at this event · 1st major
- World ranking
- No. 17 (Rolex Rankings)
- Winning score
- 74-72-70-69 = 285 (−3) · won by 1 stroke
- Runners-up
- Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew, Suzann Pettersen (286 each)
- 54-hole leader
- Suzann Pettersen, Se Ri Pak · Morgan Pressel was 4 strokes back
- Caddie
- Jon Yarbrough
- Low amateur
- Stacy Lewis (287)
Winner and runners-up
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morgan Pressel | 74 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 285 | −3 |
| T2 | Brittany Lincicome | 286 | |||||
| T2 | Catriona Matthew | 286 | |||||
| T2 | Suzann Pettersen | 286 |
What happened at the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship
Suzann Pettersen led by four strokes with four holes to play but made double bogeys at 15 and 16 and a bogey at 17 to finish one behind.
Pressel, at 18 years, 10 months and 9 days, became the youngest winner of a modern LPGA major and jumped into Poppie's Pond with her grandmother Evelyn Krickstein and caddie Jon Yarbrough.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's Chevron Championship data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: womens-golf-majors_dataset_2026-10-20.json (GNN's women's majors research set, "master" row for this year, research dated October 20, 2026).
Sources
- Wikipedia: 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship
- Wikipedia: Chevron Championship
- Wikipedia: List of Chevron Championship winners
- thegolfnewsnet.com: the chevron championship history results and past…
- Wikipedia: Morgan Pressel
- golfcompendium.com: chevron championship youngest oldest winners
- golfchannel.com: year by year look at poppies pond plunges