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Cristie Kerr is an United States|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 (golf)|U.S. Women's Open.

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 time 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 into
2005, winning two more tournaments. Her best
finish at a women's majors|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.

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

Kerr is 5'3" and weighs 125 pounds, but in 1999
she weighed a very unhealthy 175 pounds. Her
weight caused her to have back spasms. Her
parents, who are divorced, are both diabetics, and
her mother had had a heart attack when Kerr was in
ninth grade. After her weight had peaked, Kerr
began exercising regularly and went on a diet. By
2002, she had lost 50 pounds.

Kerr's best friend on tour is Natalie Gulbis, and
Donald Trump is an off-course friend, as Kerr made
an appearance on an episode of the third edition
of NBC's The Apprentice in 2005. She has been
engaged twice, and had both engagements fall
apart. She is currently dating Erik Stevens, who
heads up a company that is developing a sports
complex in Brooklyn. Kerr lives in Manhattan on a
part-time basis. Mutual of Omaha is Kerr's
sponsor.

==LPGA Tour wins==
*2002 Longs Drugs Challenge 
*2004 LPGA Takefuji Classic, ShopRite LPGA
Classic, State Farm Classic 
*2005 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, Wendy's
Championship for Children

==External links==
*http://www.birdiesforbreastcancer.com/ Official
site
*http://www.lpga.com/player_results.aspx?id=127
Profile on the LPGA Tour's official site
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/K/Cristie_Kerr/
Golf Stars Online - links to internet resources
about Cristie Kerr
*http://www.lpga.com/content/KerrGW052605.pdf "The
Winning Edge"-cover article from the May 20, 2005
issue of GolfWorld