Cristie Kerr briefly held the lead in the final round last May at Copper Rock Golf Course, only to have Angela Stanford overtake her.
The sequel was another story, in the 2025 LPGA Legends Championship. Kerr led all the way Saturday, taking a two-stroke win over Moira Dunn-Bohls.

“It feels awesome,” said the 47-year-old Kerr. “Yeah, I was on a mission this week.”
Kerr posted 69-71-70 for a 6-under-par total, holding off Dunn-Bohls, who closed with a 68, and Maria McBride, whose 67 gave her third place for the second year in a row in Hurricane. Stanford, the tournament’s two-time defending champion, tied for 11th.

Utah Golf Hall of Fame member Sue Nyhus tied for 39th, finishing in the middle of the starting field of 78. Nyhus’ even-par 72 was topped by only nine players Saturday, while she competed in her early 60s via a Utah Section PGA sponsor exemption in an event for golfers 45 and older.
Kerr was a fitting winner on the unofficial ending of Women in Golf Month, as declared by Washington County. She played in the inaugural LPGA Black Desert Championship in early May as part of her preparation for a return to Copper Rock. In between, the Epson Tour made its annual visit to Hurricane, following a stop in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Kerr made a hometown appearance and tied for 10th place.
“I said that if I wanted to have a chance here … I needed to get some reps,” Kerr said. “I made myself do it.”
The strategy worked, as Kerr collected a $60,000 check on the 60th birthday of her husband, Erik Stevens.
So as the LPGA Legends Championship moves to Indiana in 2026 and Pennsylvania in ‘27, Copper Rock administrators can savor the achievement of staging women’s pro golf doubleheaders in consecutive years. They also get to claim a 20-time LPGA Tour winner (including two major titles) as their most recent champion.

“It means the absolute world to me that I can still get it done,” said Kerr, whose most recent title came in a 2017 LPGA Tour event in Malaysia.
Kerr parred the last seven holes to stay in front Saturday, after bogeying No. 10 and birdieing No. 11. The back-nine challenge involved “having a hard time controlling the adrenaline, instead of feeling like I was going to mess up or something,” she said. “So, kind of losing the feel a little bit. But I hung in there.”
So did Nyhus, in her own way. Having opened with 78-80, she made four birdies and four bogeys in the final round and described herself as “relieved” afterward.
Nyhus added, “I knew I could do it. But whether I could bring myself to hit the shots I knew I could hit, in this moment, is where I’m a little in and out.”
She was more “in” than “out” Saturday, although a topped drive, covering only about 100 yards and luckily bouncing across a cart path and desert area to find grass, led to her most spectacular birdie. After a 7-wood shot just short of the green on the par-4 No. 2 (her 11th hole the day), she chipped in for an unlikely “3.” She got to 2 under for the day with a 30-foot birdie putt on the next hole, before making two late bogeys.
Nyhus expects her showing to give more LPGA Legends opportunities.

Representing the Utah Golf Association as the only amateur in the field, Arizona resident Robin Krapfl (77-81-82) tied for 59th place. Krapfl won the Utah Senior Women’s State Amateur in September to earn the UGA exemption.
2025 LPGA Legends Championship final leaderboard.
2025 LPGA Legends Championship at Copper Rock final round recap written by Fairways Media senior writer Kurt Kragthorpe. Photos by Fairways Media/Randy Dodson.