Q and A with Christina Kim By Anthony Cotton, Denver Post | More at Dever Post.com>> There are seven women with the last name Kim playing on the LPGA Tour this season, a group that ranges from Birdie, the winner of last summer's U.S. Open at Cherry Hills, to Joo Mi, the winner of the season-opening SBS Open almost two weeks ago. However, there is only one Christina Kim. Not yet 22, the word once most often used to describe Christina was brash. Now she has made a name for herself with her game. Twice a winner on tour, Kim also was a key performer last fall, going 2-1-1 for the victorious U.S. Solheim Cup team. Still irrepressible, Kim - who has lost 25 pounds since the end of last season - chatted recently about how her lighter frame still carries a sizable amount of great expectations. Anthony Cotton: Everyone I see talks about how you've become some sort of bombshell. How do you deal with that? Christina Kim: I don't do anything. I just snort and laugh about it. I'm still me. AC: So what brought this on? CK: I spent six weeks in Korea during the offseason. One of my goals was to lose weight and feel good about myself. Well, I've always felt good about myself, but I just wanted to try something new and just challenge myself to see if I could do it. And in Korea, I was on this really, really strict, stern program; it helped me feel like I was fighting a battle. I feel like I fought a war and won. AC: This season, Rosie Jones is hardly playing, Meg Mallon may not play as much, Beth Daniel is getting older. You're not even 22, but you find yourself as an LPGA leader. CK: I don't think of myself as being one of the quote-unquote LPGA leaders. I'm not anywhere near qualified enough to be put on the same page as some of the players who are still out here, like Laura Diaz or Cristie Kerr or Juli Inkster, who's still playing a lot out here. I don't think I could dare call myself a leader of the tour. Annika (Sorenstam) is still going to be out here as much as she has the last few seasons, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not following, but I'm not leading. I'm just one of the people out here witnessing what's going on with the tour. AC: What are your goals for this season? CK: I'm looking forward to having a great year. I'm going to be chasing the top players and I'd like to have a couple of wins. Well, I have a set number, but it's kind of ridiculous for some people to believe so I don't want to say it. It's my own personal thing. AC: In terms of your career and the long haul, which was more important, winning again on tour (at the Tournament of Champions) or having the success you did in the Solheim Cup? CK: It's hard to say. Those two events were so different that it's hard to say one was "better" or "more important" for my career. If I didn't play in the Solheim, I don't know if I would have won in Mobile. They were both so great for me that I don't know if I could pick one over the other. It's like asking which child is your most favorite. There'd better not be an answer for that.