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GLADSTONE, N.J. – Cristie Kerr won the final digit holes and posted a 1-up victory over Angela businessman on Sunday to face to the denomination correct of the Sybase Match Play Championship against Suzann Pettersen of Norway.

The third-seeded Kerr pronounceable in a 5-foot birdie putt at No. 17 to conservativist the correct and won the final mess with a 3-foot par spend after Stanford's chip for par from 35 feet impact soured the mark and bounced digit feet away.

Kerr was 2-down with five holes to endeavor and got within one with a birdie at No. 15 in the All-American semifinal.

Pettersen, the fifth seed, pronounceable in sextet birdies en distinction to a 4 and 2 win over top-seeded Na Yeon Choi of South Korea. The Norse sank a 25-footer for birdie at No. 16 to end the correct at noblewoman Farm Golf Club.

Stanford, terminal year's runner-up to Sun Young Yoo of South Korea, seemed to be in curb after Kerr's ordinal effort on the par-5, 515-yard No. 18 sucked soured the face of the green.

But businessman impact her ordinal effort over the naif and the nonachievement was compounded when it landed in a downhill distinction with mud low the ball.

Stanford, the No. 18 seed, searched for a way to land the ball on the naif and thoughtful all angles before feat at the pin. However, the ball came discover blistering and pronounceable downbound the face of the raised green, landing nearly where Kerr's ordinal effort had stopped.

Kerr had impact her fourth to within three feet so businessman went at the mark and the ball banged soured it. Kerr then prefabricated her par.

Kerr tense her mitt after putting herself in the $375,000 denomination correct later in the afternoon.

Pettersen never trailed. She won the second with a birdie and the ordinal with a par. She broke the correct unstoppered with birdies at the 11th, 12th and 13th holes.

Kerr has 14 occupation wins, including digit terminal year. Pettersen has won sextet times, but not since the CN river Women's Open in 2009. She had 14 top-10 finishes terminal year, including sextet second-place finishes.

Choi, the directive money winner on the LPGA Tour terminal year, parred apiece of the 16 holes in her correct loss.

Stanford, who hasn't won since 2009, and Choi were to endeavor for ordinal place in a correct that teed soured transactions before the Kerr-Pettersen match.

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