2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship


The 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship was the 36th Kraft Nabisco Championship, held March 29 to April 1 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, southeast of Palm Springs. This was the 25th edition of the event as a major championship and the total purse was $2 million, with a winner's share of $300,000.
Morgan Pressel shot a bogey-free 69 in the final round to win her only major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew, and 54-hole co-leader Suzann Pettersen. Tied for ninth and four strokes back after the third round, Pressel gained her first victory on the LPGA Tour and became the youngest-ever winner of an LPGA major at. The low amateur was collegian Stacy Lewis, a redshirt junior at Arkansas who carded a final round 70 and finished two strokes behind, in a four-way tie for fifth.
The 36-hole co-leaders at 140 were world number two Lorena Ochoa and number five Paula Creamer, with Petterson and first round leader Shi-Hyun Ahn a stroke back; all four were in search of their first major. Ochoa made a quadruple-bogey at 17 on Saturday, and Creamer shot 78 on Sunday. Top-ranked Annika Sorenstam made the cut, but just barely at 151.
Pettersen, 25, co-led with Se Ri Pak after the third round at 212 and had a four-stroke lead with four holes to play on Sunday. Double bogeys at 15 and 16, and a bogey on the par-3 17th dropped Pettersen a stroke back, and she missed a birdie putt on the final hole to force a playoff. She rebounded and gained her first LPGA Tour victory in May at Kingsmill, the next major at the LPGA Championship in June, and three additional victories in 2007.
Pressel's win vaulted her thirteen places in the world rankings, from seventeenth to a career-high fourth.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 29, 2007
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Shi-Hyun Ahn68−4
T2Suzann Pettersen69−3
T2Lindsey Wright69−3
T4Maria Hjorth70−2
T4Jee Young Lee70−2
T4Catriona Matthew70−2
T4Karrie Webb70−2
T8Pat Hurst71−1
T8Brittany Lang71−1
T8Stacy Lewis 71−1
T8Sherri Steinhauer71−1

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Second round

Friday, March 30, 2007
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Paula Creamer73-67=140−4
T1Lorena Ochoa69-71=140−4
T3Shi-Hyun Ahn68-73=141−3
T3Suzann Pettersen72-69=141−3
5Se Ri Pak72-70=142−2
T6Maria Hjorth70-73=143−1
T6Brittany Lincicome72-71=143−1
T6Catriona Matthew70-73=143−1
T6Lindsey Wright74-69=143−1
T10Meaghan Francella72-72=144E
T10Brittany Lang71-73=144E
T10Stacy Lewis 71-73=144E

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Amateurs: Lewis, Choe, Coutu.

Third round

Saturday, March 31, 2007
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Se Ri Pak72-70-70=212−4
T1Suzann Pettersen72-69-71=212−4
T3Paula Creamer73-67-73=213−3
T3Meaghan Francella72-72-69=213−3
5Brittany Lincicome72-71-71=214−2
T6Shi-Hyun Ahn68-73-74=215−1
T6Maria Hjorth70-73-72=215−1
T6Catriona Matthew70-73-72=215−1
T9Sarah Lee68-73-74=216E
T9Stacy Prammanasudh76-70-70=216E
T9Morgan Pressel74-72-70=216E

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Final round

Sunday, April 1, 2007
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Morgan Pressel74-72-70-69=285−3300,000
T2Brittany Lincicome72-71-71-72=286−2140,945
T2Catriona Matthew70-73-72-71=286−2140,945
T2Suzann Pettersen72-69-71-74=286−2140,945
T5Shi-Hyun Ahn68-73-74-72=287−169,688
T5Meaghan Francella72-72-69-74=287−169,688
T5Stacy Prammanasudh76-70-70-71=287−169,688
T5Stacy Lewis 71-73-73-70=287−10
9Maria Hjorth70-73-72-73=288E50,114
T10Lorena Ochoa69-71-77-72=289+141,340
T10Se Ri Pak72-70-70-77=289+141,340
T10Angela Stanford72-75-73-69=289+141,340

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Amateurs: Lewis, Coutu, Choe.

Scorecard

Final round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9101112131415161718
Par454434435454434435
PresselE−1−1−1−1−1−1−1−1−1−1−2−2−2−2−2−2−3
Lincicome−2−3−3−3−2−2−2−2−1−2−3−3−3−3−2−2−2−2
MatthewE−1−1−2−3−4−4−3−4−4−4−4−3−3−3−3−3−2
Pettersen−4−4−3−3−3−3−3−4−5−5−6−6−6−6−5−3−2−2
AhnEE−1−1−1EEEE−1−1E+1EE−1−1−1
Francella−4−4−2−2−2−2−2−2−1−1−1−2−2−2−1EE−1
Lewis+1+1EEEEEEE−1E−1−1−2−2−1−1−1
PrammanasudhE−1−1−1−1−2−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−3−2−2−1−1
Hjorth−2−2−2−1EEEEEE−1EEE+1EEE
Ochoa+1+1+1+2+2+2+2+3+3+3+2+1+1+1+2+2+2+1
Pak−4−5−4−5−5−5−5−4−4−3−3−4−3−3−2−1E+1
Stanford+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+2+2+1+1+2+2+2+2+1+1
Creamer−2−2−1−1EEE+1+1EEE+1+1+1+1+2+3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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