Cristie Kerr

United States · born October 12, 1977, Miami, Florida, United States

2major championships, LPGA count

U.S. Women's Open1 win, 1 2nd
Chevron Championship1 2nd
Women's PGA1 win
Women's Open1 2nd

Summary

First major 2007 U.S. Women's Open
Last major 2010 KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Runner-up in majors 3 times

Wins

2007 U.S. Women's Open Pine Needles L. & G.C. · 279 (-5) · by 2 strokes from Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park
2010 KPMG Women's PGA Championship Locust Hill Country Club · 269 (-19) · 12 strokes from Song-Hee Kim

Near misses

2000 U.S. Women's Open The Merit Club · runner-up to Karrie Webb · 287
2006 AIG Women's Open runner-up to Sherri Steinhauer
2009 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Brittany Lincicome

Rivals

Beat her

Sherri SteinhauerBeat Cristie Kerr to the 2006 Women's OpenBrittany LincicomeBeat Cristie Kerr to the 2009 Chevron Championship

Next in the chain: Karrie Webb's rivals →

Moments

2007 U.S. Women's Open Tied with world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa in the final round, Kerr holed a 24-foot birdie putt at the par-4 14th, a hole that yielded only four birdies all day, to take the lead for good.
2007 U.S. Women's Open Kerr made a clutch 7-foot par putt at the 16th, then two-putted the 72nd hole for par and dropped to her knees in tears.

Results by championship

Best day

2007 U.S. Women's Open

Pine Needles L. & G.C., Southern Pines, NC · 279 (-5) · by 2 strokes from Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park

Tied with world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa in the final round, Kerr holed a 24-foot birdie putt at the par-4 14th, a hole that yielded only four birdies all day, to take the lead for good.

Kerr made a clutch 7-foot par putt at the 16th, then two-putted the 72nd hole for par and dropped to her knees in tears.

Chosen by rule: her widest winning margin in a major. Year page: 2007.

Career line, 2000–2010

U.S. Women's Open

2000 U.S. Women's Open: runner-up to Karrie Webb 2007 U.S. Women's Open: won

Chevron Championship

2009 Chevron Championship: runner-up to Brittany Lincicome

Women's PGA

2010 Women's PGA: won

Women's Open

2006 Women's Open: runner-up to Sherri Steinhauer

200020052010

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Major win
Runner-up

Cristie Kerr was born on October 12, 1977, in Miami, Florida, United States. Kerr won 2 major championships by the LPGA's official count: 1 U.S. Women's Open (2007) and 1 Women's PGA Championship (2010).

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The record

Wins in the majors (2)

Count and list are the LPGA official major-championship record as given in our U.S. Women's Open champions table.

2007 U.S. Women's Open Pine Needles L. & G.C., Southern Pines, NC · 279 (-5) · by 2 strokes from Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park
2010 KPMG Women's PGA Championship Locust Hill Country Club · 269 (-19) · 12 strokes from Song-Hee Kim

Near misses

2000 U.S. Women's Open The Merit Club · runner-up to Karrie Webb · 287
2006 AIG Women's Open runner-up to Sherri Steinhauer
2009 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Brittany Lincicome

Sources

Elsewhere: Wikipedia.

Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.