2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship

2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship
Tournament information
Dates	March 29 – April 1, 2007
Location	Rancho Mirage, California
Course(s)	Mission Hills Country Club; Dinah Shore Tourn. Course
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,673 yards (6,102 m)
Field	101 players, 72 after cut
Cut	153 (+9)
Prize fund	$2.0 million
Winner's share	$300,000
Champion
	Morgan Pressel
	285 (−3)
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Rancho Mirage

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Location in the United States

Rancho
Mirage

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Location in California

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.^[3]^[4]^[5] 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 18 years, 313 days.^[5]^[6]^[7] The low amateur was collegian Stacy Lewis, a redshirt junior at Arkansas who carded a final round 70 (−2) and finished two strokes behind, in a four-way tie for fifth.

The 36-hole co-leaders at 140 (−4) were world number two Lorena Ochoa and number five Paula Creamer,^[2]^[8] with Petterson and first round leader Shi-Hyun Ahn a stroke back; all four were in search of their first major.^[9] Ochoa made a quadruple-bogey at 17 on Saturday, and Creamer shot 78 (+6) on Sunday.^[4] Top-ranked Annika Sorenstam made the cut, but just barely at 151 (+7).^[9]

Pettersen, 25, co-led with Se Ri Pak after the third round at 212 (−4)^[10] 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.^[4]^[11] 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^[8] to a career-high fourth.^[12]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Shi-Hyun Ahn	68	−4
T2	Suzann Pettersen	69	−3
T2	Lindsey Wright	69	−3
T4	Maria Hjorth	70	−2
	Jee Young Lee
	Catriona Matthew
	Karrie Webb
T8	Pat Hurst	71	−1
	Brittany Lang
	Stacy Lewis (a)
	Sherri Steinhauer

Source:^[13]

Second round

Friday, March 30, 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Paula Creamer	73-67=140	−4
T1	Lorena Ochoa	69-71=140	−4
T3	Shi-Hyun Ahn	68-73=141	−3
T3	Suzann Pettersen	72-69=141	−3
5	Se Ri Pak	72-70=142	−2
T6	Maria Hjorth	70-73=143	−1
	Brittany Lincicome	72-71=143
	Catriona Matthew	70-73=143
	Lindsey Wright	74-69=143
T10	Meaghan Francella	72-72=144	E
	Brittany Lang	71-73=144
	Stacy Lewis (a)	71-73=144

Source:^[2]^[13]

Amateurs: Lewis (E), Choe (+9), Coutu (+9).

Third round

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Se Ri Pak	72-70-70=212	−4
T1	Suzann Pettersen	72-69-71=212	−4
T3	Paula Creamer	73-67-73=213	−3
T3	Meaghan Francella	72-72-69=213	−3
5	Brittany Lincicome	72-71-71=214	−2
T6	Shi-Hyun Ahn	68-73-74=215	−1
	Maria Hjorth	70-73-72=215
	Catriona Matthew	70-73-72=215
T9	Sarah Lee	68-73-74=216	E
	Stacy Prammanasudh	76-70-70=216
	Morgan Pressel	74-72-70=216

Source:^[1]^[10]^[13]

Final round

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Morgan Pressel	74-72-70-69=285	−3	300,000
T2	Brittany Lincicome	72-71-71-72=286	−2	140,945
	Catriona Matthew	70-73-72-71=286
	Suzann Pettersen	72-69-71-74=286
T5	Shi-Hyun Ahn	68-73-74-72=287	−1	69,688
	Meaghan Francella	72-72-69-74=287
	Stacy Prammanasudh	76-70-70-71=287
	Stacy Lewis (a)	71-73-73-70=287		0
9	Maria Hjorth	70-73-72-73=288	E	50,114
T10	Lorena Ochoa	69-71-77-72=289	+1	41,340
	Se Ri Pak	72-70-70-77=289
	Angela Stanford	72-75-73-69=289

Source:^[13]^[14]

Amateurs: Lewis (−1), Coutu (+18), Choe (+19).

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5
Pressel	E	−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
Matthew	E	−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
Ahn	E	E	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	E	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1
Francella	−4	−4	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	E	−1
Lewis	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1
Prammanasudh	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1
Hjorth	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	E	E	E	+1	E	E	E
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	−1	E	+1
Stanford	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1
Creamer	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	E	E	+1	+1	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

Source:^[13]

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