Cristie Kerr News

A trip to the Atlantic City area proved to be good fortune for Stacy Lewis. The 27-year-old golfer not only won the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Sunday, June 3,A but also became the top-ranked American on tour.

At 6:30 a.m. on Memorial Day, I arrived at Chelsea Piers in New York City to join Cristie Kerr on a journey across the Hudson.

Stacy Lewis Stacy Lewism shown here celebrating her win at the the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic in April, proved during a visit to Waterloo that LPGA stars are approachable.

Golf pro Cristie Kerr hosted over 50 veterans for a day of golf at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City in honor of Memorial Day on May 28, 2012.

None of the top 14 seeds are still around. The final four consists of two so-called veterans seeking their first wins since 2008 and a couple of highly regarded youngsters seeking their first taste of victory on the LPGA Tour.

Cristie Kerr stands in the brush on the first playoff hole after witting left of the green in her match with Vicky Hurst during the second round of the Sybase Match Play Championship LPGA golf tournament at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone.

The tournament has become a minefield for the tour's marquee players. Defending champion Suzann Pettersen , No.

Defending champion Suzann Pettersen didn't last long at the Sybase Match Play Championship, and neither did three well-known Americans.

Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird has been voted the NBA's Executive of the Year, becoming the first person to win that award, plus the league's MVP and Coach of the Year honors.

The U.S. Amateur trophy is among the artifacts missing after a burglar broke into the U.S. Golf Association Museum in northern New Jersey.

Everyone knows about Yani Tseng's 13 tournament titles last year, but one of 2011's most underrated feats in women's golf was Suzann Pettersen's dominant match-play record.

Keegan Bradley got his first professional victory last year at the Byron Nelson Championship.

Television: Golf Channel . Last year: Norway's Suzann Pettersen beat Cristie Kerr 1-up in the final.

You know that commercial in which the little kid tees it up with an iron, knocks it in the hole, jumps up and down, and realizes there's no one on the course for miles around to witness his moment of glory? Well, that's exactly how the New England Patriots Wes Welker must have felt when he launched his first-ever eagle on Friday.