Paula Creamer is an American
professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She
was named LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2005 and
currently has five wins on the LPGA Tour and seven
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.
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, tied
for 13th in the U.S. Women's Open, and 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.
On May 22, 2005, Creamer won the Sybase Classic
tournament in New Rochelle, New York at 18 years, 9
months and 17 days old. This made her the
second-youngest first time winner of an LPGA
tournament after Marlene Bauer-Hagge, whose first
victory was in 1952.
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 LET, and became the youngest and
quickest player to reach $1 million in LPGA career
earnings. In August 2005 she won the NEC Open on the
Japan LPGA tour, and she added a victory at the
Masters GC Ladies tournament two months later.
Creamer's rookie success earned her a spot on the
2005 Solheim Cup Team, and she became the youngest
player to do so. She led the U.S. team with 3 1/2
points as the Americans won the cup, 15 1/2-12 1/2.
After a winless 2006 season, Creamer rebounded with
two LPGA Tour titles in 2007. Her wins came at the
SBS Open at Turtle Bay in February and The Mitchell
Company Tournament of Champions in November. In 2007
she also made her second Solheim Cup team and went
unbeaten in five matches as the U.S. team retained
the cup, 16-12.
In February 2008, she came back from a two-shot
deficit on the back nine to earn her fifth LPGA
title at the Fields Open in Hawaii.
Creamer currently has endorsement deals with Taylor
Made, Adidas, RBS, NEC, Kraft, Sundog Eyewear, CDW,
Aldila, and Citizen Watch. She also appeared in the
EA Sports video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08.
