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  Kraft Foods - Food & Fun
This fall, Kraft and local retailers across the U.S. are getting in the zone with high-scoring programs that highlight a team of more than 40 Kraft brands.
Kraft and its customers are also hosting tailgate parties at NFL and collegiate football games.
In the U.S., Kraft and its brands are major sponsors of high-profile sporting events, such as NASCAR racing; NCAA basketball, and the Kraft-Nabisco Championship LPGA golf tournament.
www.kraft.com /foodfun_100803.html   (316 words)

  
 Official site of Graeme W Baxter - golfing art, golf prints, oil paintings, Pebble Beach, The Open, Ryder cup, PGA
Kraft Nabisco Championship officials have announced that Scottish artist Graeme Baxter has been commissioned to create a landscape painting of the 14th green, par 3 of the legendary Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship is the first “major” tournament of the year on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour.
The 2005 Kraft Nabisco Championship will be played for the 34th consecutive year on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.
www.baxterprints.com /news_kraftnabisco.asp   (495 words)

  
 Article: Change of Heart - Wie, Pressel, Lang In First LPGA Major - Golfer's Guide ®
Wie, who turned professional last October, is eligible to be invited to compete in the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship as a result of her second-place finish at last year's McDonald's LPGA Championship, her third-place finish at the Weetabix Women's British Open and her tie for 14th in last year's Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Pressel is eligible for the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship by virtue of her tie for second place in last year's U.S. Women's Open and her tie for 19th in last year's Kraft Nabisco Championship.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship will celebrate its 35th anniversary March 27 - April 2 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. This year's tournament will feature the best players in women's professional golf, led by defending champion Annika Sorenstam who will be playing for her fourth Kraft Nabisco title.
www.golfersguide.com /editorial.php?editorial_id=1059   (593 words)

  
 Kraft Nabisco Senior Putting Competition Tees off in California on January 4th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The 22nd annual Kraft Nabisco Championship Senior Putting Competition returns to the desert on Wednesday, January 4, at the Coachella Senior Center in Coachella, Calif. "Tee time" is set for 10 a.m.
Kraft Nabisco Championship also announced the return of its popular "Senior Appreciation Days" during Tournament Week, set for March 27-April 2, 2006, at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Senior Appreciation Days offer free admission for adults 55 and over during both days of the tournament's Celebrity Pro-Am.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first "major" tournament of the year on the LPGA Tour,; celebrates its 35th anniversary this year at Mission Hills Country Club.
www.cybergolf.com /news/golfnews3595.asp   (585 words)

  
 Kraft Foods Inc. - Newsroom
As part of the relationship, Sorenstam will be featured in select advertising, promotions and other marketing programs for Kraft's food and beverage products, wear the Kraft corporate trademark on her golf shirts and display the trademark on her golf bag.
Kraft Foods sponsors the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major tournament of the year on the LPGA tour, where Sorenstam will vie for her third straight win in Rancho Mirage, CA, March 27-30.
Kraft Foods markets many of the world's leading food brands, including Kraft cheese, Maxwell House and Jacobs coffees, Nabisco cookies and crackers, Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer meats, Post cereals and Milka chocolates, in more than 150 countries.
www.kraft.com /newsroom/03072003.html   (294 words)

  
 Kraft Nabisco Championship steps up as the first major of the 2006 golf season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Sports Network) -- The LPGA Tour moves to the California desert for the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major championship of the 2006 golf season, as the best players in the world compete for one of the most prestigious titles.
It was the first time that a player birdied the closing hole to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship since Donna Andrews birdied the last to win by one stroke over Laura Davies in 1994.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship was designated as one of the LPGA Tour's four major championships in 1983.
www.pga.com /news/tours/lpga/kraft032806.cfm   (1109 words)

  
 LPGA.com
Annika Sorenstam was walking down the sixth fairway Thursday in the Kraft Nabisco Championship when she saw a scoreboard with a "10" next to the name of Lorena Ochoa.
Angela Park finished the first round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the first thing she did was cool off.
WHEN Karrie Webb won the 2000 Kraft Nabisco Championship, she was reigning supreme at the pinnacle of the women's game.
www.lpga.com /content_1.aspx?pid=5984&mid=1   (2089 words)

  
 Ochoa ties major record at Kraft Nabisco - Boston.com
She was able to hear that familiar voice, her father urging her to attack the flags and stick it close.
Wie got all the attention and matched her best score on the LPGA Tour, a bogey-free 66 in which she played with poise and precision and had a birdie putt on every hole.
She wound up with a 66 for the third time on the LPGA Tour, one of those coming in the third round of the Kraft Nabisco when Wie was 13 years old playing in her first major.
www.boston.com /sports/golf/articles/2006/03/30/creamer_ready_to_rise_in_kraft_nabisco/?page=full   (1079 words)

  
 KRAFT NABISCO CHAMPIONSHIP / Sorenstam continues to make quite a splash
This is the third time Sorenstam has won the Nabisco, the first major on the schedule.
In 2001, she finished fifth at the next major, the LPGA Championship; in 2002, she took third.
This year's LPGA Championship begins June 9 at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre de Grace, Md. That's a new course for the event, which had been held at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Del., in recent years.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/28/SPGFJBVLIC1.DTL&type=printable   (786 words)

  
 World Golf News - Kraft Nabisco Championship announces tournament exemptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She won the 2005 Women's Transnational Championship and was ranked #1 by GolfWeek in November 2005 for both amateurs and college women.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship is the first LPGA event for the 21-year-old collegiate star.
The Kraft Nabisco Championship's special exemptions to the playing members on the Solheim Cup team for 2005 were extended to Trish Johnson of England, Ludivine Kreutz and Gwladys Nocera of France, and Suzann Pettersen of Norway.
worldgolf.com /newswire/browse/5069-Kraft-Nabisco-Championship-annou...   (1025 words)

  
 First major of the season tees it up this week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Masters and the Kraft Nabisco Championship are the two majors that have been played on the same golf course since their inceptions.
The Kraft Nabisco was designated a major championship in 1983.
It was the first time the Kraft Nabisco was decided with a closing birdie since Donna Andrews birdied the last to win by one stroke over Laura Davies in 1994.
www.pga.com /news/tours/lpga/kraft032205.cfm   (1063 words)

  
 GolfDigest.com - LPGA/Kraft Nabisco Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Olivia contract is a one-year deal with options for future years, and the reception Jones received at the Kraft Nabisco, combined with her continued high level of play, makes it likely that Olivia will want the arrangement to extend past this year.
At the far end of the practice range at Mission Hills CC, several hundred yards from where players were warming up for the first round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, was a practice putting green with two familiar figures, one putting and the other observing.
The one with the putter wore a bucket hat and rolled the ball with a distinctive motion that first gained fame last year when she won the Kraft Nabisco.
golfdigest.com /newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20040402lpga.html   (1084 words)

  
 Kraft Nabisco Championship News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kraft Nabisco Championship News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
When Grace Park won the 2004 Kraft Nabisco Championship, her sixth LPGA victory in five years and her first major, Park seemed to be the next logical challenger to Annika Sorenstam's reign as women's golf's...
In a Year of Transition, a Leap for Major Champions, Baby Steps for the LPGA Karrie Webb, of Australia, tees off on the 11th tee during the final round of the LPGA ADT Championship at the Trump International...
www.topix.net /golf/lpga-kraft-nabisco-championship   (816 words)

  
 Kraft Meunier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Just six holes away from becoming the first player in LPGA Tour history to win the same major three consecutive years in the modem era, future Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam was passed down the stretch by little-known Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, turning a course in Swedish history into a French major.
One of the keys to her historic win, according to Meunier-Lebouc, was being able to play six rounds of golf with Sorenstam in the same group at the Kraft Nabisco and Phoenix LPGA event two weeks earlier.
The victory at the Kraft Nabisco also launched Meunier-Lebouc to her best year on the LPGA Tour.
www.golftodaymagazine.com /0402feb/kraft.htm   (813 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Creamer ready to rise
She was an 18-year-old amateur at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2004, and because the second round wasn't completed because of darkness, the third-round pairings were made Saturday morning.
They will be paired Thursday when the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first LPGA Tour major of the year, gets under way on a Mission Hills Country Club course toughened by deep rough and firm, slick greens.
A year ago, Sorenstam overwhelmed the field to win the Nabisco by eight shots, then went to the LPGA Championship and held off a late rally by Wie to win by three shots.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/golf/20060330-0025-glf-kraftnabisco.html   (892 words)

  
 Karrie Webb Wins Kraft Nabisco | The Sand Trap
It looked like Lorena Ochoa had it locked up, but thanks to a miraculous 116 yard pitch that found the hole Karrie Webb would have a chance to win the women's first major of the year in a playoff.
Webb was so stunned by the final hour of the Kraft Nabisco Championship that she lost [...]
Webb was so stunned by the final hour of the Kraft Nabisco Championship that she lost her way after completing an amazing comeback Sunday.
thesandtrap.com /archives/lpga/karrie_webb_wins_kraft_nabisco.php   (671 words)

  
 Annika Sorenstam extends lead to five shots - Kraft Nabisco Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Bad marshaling aside, Sorenstam had a lot to be happy about in the third round of the Nabisco Championship.
In doing so, the most dominant player in women's golf all but wrapped up the first major championship of the year while setting herself up for another entry into the LPGA record books.
Jones had the chance to have honors for the first time of the day on the 12th hole after a birdie on 11, but had to stop on the way to the tee and allowed Sorenstam to hit first.
www.golftoday.co.uk /tours/2005/Kraft_Nabisco_Championship/round3report.html   (913 words)

  
 Golf - CBS SportsLine.com
Park, a 25-year-old in her fifth year on Tour, vowed after tying for the lead in the third round that this was her time to win her first major championship.
She came close last year, losing in a playoff to Annika Sorenstam in the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by AIG.
A 3-putt on the 16th hole, where her first putt went off the front of the green, appeared to end Song's chances, but that was before she smashed her drive 275 yards down the 18th hole and had 210 to the green.
www.sportsline.com /golf/story/7214775   (1151 words)

  
 KRAFT NABISCO CHAMPIONSHIP / Creamer outpaces golf's queen / Sorenstam struggles; Ochoa keeps control
So it made for a compelling sight at the Kraft Nabisco Championship these past two days, when LPGA Tour officials shrewdly placed Creamer and Sorenstam in the same group.
Sorenstam has won nine in her career, while Creamer posted only one top-10 finish in a major last year (3rd-place tie at the LPGA Championship).
She tied for 19th in the Kraft Nabisco.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/01/SPG6FI1V0I1.DTL&...   (782 words)

  
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 KRAFT NABISCO CHAMPIONSHIP / Wie starts well in quest for breakthrough
Wie glided to a 2-under-par 70 in the first round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA's first major of the year, and stands only one shot off the pace.
This seems hard to fathom, because she's still not old enough to hold a driver's license, but Wie is making her third Nabisco appearance.
At the same time, in a conversation with reporters before the Nabisco began, B.J. Wie left open the possibility his daughter could turn pro this year.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/25/SPG66BUP6N1.DTL   (705 words)

  
 Kraft Nabisco Championship News, Information and Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The 116-yard wedge Webb made on the 72nd hole at Mission Hills to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April capped a return to the sort of performances she had before a slump that lasted almost three years.
The 116-yard wedge Webb made on the 72nd hole at Mission Hills to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April capped a return to the sort of perform...
It was 1985, they were at a resort in Florida, and he convinced her to play.
www.sportsblogz.com /KraftNabiscoChampionship   (205 words)

  
 BunkerShot.com - Srixon's Karrie Webb Wins Kraft Nabisco Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Srixon Staff Professional Karrie Webb won the LPGA’s first major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, in dramatic fashion on Sunday, April 2, 2006.
Starting the final day of play 7 shots behind the leader, Webb made 5 birdies and an incredible eagle on the 72nd hole to catapult to the outright lead for the first time in the entire tournament and eventually prevail in a playoff.
Standing on the 18th hole, 1 stroke behind the leaders, Webb relied on the precision and distance control of the Srixon Z-UR prototype and Srixon forged irons to hole out from 116 yards for the eagle.
www.bunkershot.com /2006_print.cfm?ID=2795   (185 words)

  
 Annika Sorenstam coasts to eight shot victory - Kraft Nabisco Championship 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The most dominant player in golf believes she's close after blowing out the field by eight shots and winning the first major of the year Sunday in the Nabisco Championship.
She's won her last five LPGA Tour events, and is a quarter of the way toward her goal of winning all four major championships this year.
Despite all the highly touted young talent at the Nabisco -- including a pair of teenage amateurs in Michelle Wie and Morgan Pressel -- the only player who could get closer than 10 shots to Sorenstam at the end was 45-year-old Rosie Jones.
www.golftoday.co.uk /tours/2005/Kraft_Nabisco_Championship/round4report.html   (825 words)

  
 Golf - CBS SportsLine.com
She wants to win all four major championships, but perhaps a better goal might be to win every tournament she plays in.
Sorenstam turned a runaway into a blowout, shooting a final-round 68 to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship by eight shots and extend her LPGA Tour winning streak to five.
So will golf fans, who witnessed the best player of her generation - perhaps the best ever - turn the first major championship of the year into a romp with a weekend that included 10 birdies and no bogeys over the final 36 holes.
www.sportsline.com /golf/story/8332618   (955 words)

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