Cristie Kerr is an American golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She was was born on 12 October 1977 in Miami, Florida and started playing golf at the age of eight. She had a very successful amateur career and was the 1996 American Junior Golf Association Junior Player of the Year. That same year she played in the Curtis Cup and was the low amateur at the U.S. Women's Open. Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... The LPGA is the Ladies Professional Golf Association. ... The Miami skyline, as it is seen from the northeast on Biscayne Bay. ... The Curtis Cup is the best known team tournament for women amateur golfers. ... The U.S. Womens Open Golf Championship is one of the LPGAs major championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Womens British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship. ...

Kerr turned professional in 1996 and 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 itme as a professional 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 maintained this form in the first half of 2005. Her best finish at a major championship is tied second at the 2000 U.S. Women's Open. She was a member of the United States Solheim Cup team in 2002 and 2003. Womens golf has evolved a set of major tournaments which parallels that in mens golf, but the womens system is younger and has been less stable that the mens. ... The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. ...

Kerr is involved in fundraising for breast cancer research. Her mother was diagnosed with the disease in 2004.

LPGA Tour wins

• 2002 Longs Drugs Challenge
• 2004 LPGA Takefuji Classic, ShopRite LPGA Classic, State Farm Classic
• 2005 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill

External links

• Official site
• Profile on the LPGA Tour's official site
• Golf Stars Online - links to internet resources about Cristie Kerr