Part 2 of my Player Profile series, continuing with those who rank in my final Top 30.

#6  Cristie Kerr  (8-15-5)

Won the Safeway Classic in late August, the eleventh victory of her career.  Kerr also recorded 11 Top 10 finishes, finished fifth in scoring and did not miss a single cut.  On the downside, only three of those Top 10s were also Top 5s and Cristie was "only" tenth on the money list.  She is Pettersen's equal in three of the five rating categories and the victory outweighs Suzann's slight money list edge.

#7  Suzann Pettersen  (2-4-2)

I wasn't surprised to get questioned on ranking Pettersen above Angela Stanford.  Stanford won twice this year while Pettersen didn't win at all.  My system ranked them very closely with Suzann owning a slight edge in three categories (scoring, money and Top 10%) and a large edge in missed cuts.  Pettersen missed no cuts, Stanford missed four - all of them by mid-August.  I give victories a sizable bonus in my system and anybody who wins automatically gets a big boost in money.  Even so, Suzann finished two positions ahead of Angela on the money list despite playing three fewer events.  Whether Pettersen goes ahead of Stanford or not boils down to this - how much credit should you give a player for winning, and how much should you penalize them for missing a cut?

#8  Angela Stanford  (16-14-6)

In ranking her below Pettersen, I don't want to diminish anything Stanford has accomplished over the last three months.  During that stretch, she was the best player on Tour and (with apologies to Ji-Yai Shin) might have been the best in the world.  This ranking takes the entire season into account and Angela's poor performances from mid-May through mid-August push her down to #8.

#9  Seon Hwa Lee  (6-6-5)

So where is the Seon Hwa defense team?  Like Stanford, she also won twice - at the Ginn Tribute (in front of yours truly with her mom in attendance) and at Arkansas - while earning more money than Pettersen.  Lee hurt her ranking by missing three cuts, finishing with only seven total Top 10s, and a scoring average half-a-stroke higher than Suzann.  The big difference in Top 10% is why Seon Hwa comes in behind Angela.

#10  Na Yeon Choi  (NR-NR-6)

I mentioned in Part 1 that Yani Tseng had compiled the second-best season for a rookie since 1998.  Over the last nine years, Choi's point total in my system would have been good enough to win Rookie of the Year in six of them (Tseng 2008, Creamer 2005 and Ochoa 2003 are the exceptions).  She would have barely beaten out Angela Park last year and Seon Hwa Lee the year before.  Na Yeon accomplished this Top 10 season despite playing the entire year with Conditional status.  Her early successes enabled her to play in twice the number of events (27) that a conditional player normally qualifies for.  The players near Choi on the Conditional list (Anna Rawson, Ashleigh Simon, Sarah Jane Kenyon, Taylor Leon) each played 13 or 14 events.