Paula Creamer
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| Personal Information | |
|---|---|
| Birth | August 05, 1986 (age 20) Mountain View, California USA |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Residence | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| College | none |
| Career | |
| Turned Pro | 2005 |
| Current tour | LPGA Tour (joined 2005) |
| Professional wins | 5 (LPGA Tour: 3, other individual: 2) |
| Major Championship results Wins: 0 |
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| Awards | |
| American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Player of the Year. | 2003 |
| Golf Digest Junior of the Year | 2003 |
| Golf Digest Amateur of the Year | 2004 |
| LPGA Rookie of the Year | 2005 |
Paula Creamer (born August 5, 1986) is an American professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She was named LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2005 and currently has three wins on the LPGA Tour and five total professional wins.
Creamer has been ranked in the top 10 of the Women's World Golf Rankings since the rankings were introduced in February 2006.
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[edit] Amateur career
Creamer took up golf at the age of ten.
She won a total of 19 amateur national titles, including 11 American Junior Golf Association tournaments. She was a semi-finalist in the 2003 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at the age of 16 and reached the same stage in 2004. In the same year she placed second in the ShopRite LPGA Classic, and tied for 13th in the U.S. Women's Open, and also represented the United States in the Curtis Cup.
She won the 2004 LPGA Tour Qualifying School by five shots, thus gaining membership on the tour for 2005. She turned professional immediately afterwards.
[edit] Amateur victories and honours
- 19 national titles, including 11 American Junior Golf Association tournaments.
- 2002: Member of winning U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team.
- 2003: American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Player of the Year. Golfweek's and Golf Digest's Junior of the Year
- 2004: Named Amateur of the Year by both Golfweek and Golf Digest. Member of winning Curtis Cup team. Winner of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.
[edit] Professional career
On May 22, 2005, Creamer won the Sybase Classic tournament in New Rochelle, New York at 18 years 9 months and 17 days. This made her the second-youngest first time winner of an LPGA tournament after Marlene Bauer-Hagge, whose first victory was in 1952.[citation needed]
On July 23, she added a win in the Evian Masters tournament in France, a tournament co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour, and recognized as a major by the Ladies European Tour and became the youngest and quickest player to reach $1 million in LPGA career earnings.[citation needed] In August 2005 she won the NEC Open on the Japan LPGA tour.
Creamer earned a spot on the 2005 Solheim Cup Team, the youngest player to do so.[citation needed]
Creamer's fifth professional win came in February 2007 at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay.
Creamer currently has endorsements deals with Taylor Made, Adidas, RBS, NEC. Kraft & Sundog Eyewear.[citation needed]
[edit] Professional wins (5)
[edit] LPGA Tour (3)
- 2005 (2) Sybase Classic, Evian Masters
- 2007 (1) SBS Open at Turtle Bay
[edit] Other (2)
- 2005 (2) NEC Open, Masters GC Ladies Classic (both LPGA of Japan Tour)
[edit] Results in LPGA majors
| Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | T45 | T19 | T24 |
| LPGA Championship | DNP | DNP | T3 | T49 |
| U.S. Women's Open | CUT | T13 TLA | T19 | T16 |
| Women's British Open | DNP | DNP | T15 | T22 |
LA = Low Amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.
[edit] Team appearances
Amateur
- Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 2004 (winners)
- Espirito Santo Trophy (representing the United States): 2004
- Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners)
Professional
- Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2005 (winners)
- Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2005 (winners), 2006
[edit] Personal life
Creamer was born in Mountain View, California and grew up in Pleasanton, where she attended Foothill High School but graduated from Pendleton High School in Bradenton, Florida while attending the IMG Golf Academy. She lived in Bradenton until 2007 when she moved to Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando, Florida.[1]
[edit] Association with color pink
Due to her fondness for wearing pink, Creamer's friend Casey Wittenberg nicknamed her the "Pink Panther." The sobriquet has followed her on tour ever since. Creamer's golf clubs have pink grips, her golf bag is pink (complete with Pink Panther head cover for her driver[2]). She occasionally uses a pink golf ball provided by Precept Golf,[3] [4], one of her sponsors.
[edit] References
- ^ Baldry, Beth Ann (2007-02-08). Rust remover: Creamer makes Hooters Tour stint to prepare for LPGA season. Golfweek.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ http://www.yelnats.com/y8/pink_panther/pink_panther.htm
- ^ Paula Creamer switches to Precept ball. iseekgolf.com (2006-01-17). Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ Paula Creamer with pink golf ball. The Washington Post (2006-05-11). Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
