Paula Creamer

Born: August 5, 1986, in Mountain View, California
Nickname: "Pink Panther" - because she always wears pink. She sometimes uses a pink golf ball, and also has a Pink Panther headcover for her driver.
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• LPGA rookie of the year, 2005
• Member, U.S. Solheim Cup team, 2005, 2007
• Member, U.S. Curtis Cup team, 2004
• Named amateur of the year by Golfweek and Golf Digest, 2004

Paula Creamer was 18 years, 9 months, 17 days old at the time of her first LPGA Tour victory, the third-youngest age for any winner on the LPGA Tour.

Creamer posted a 60 in the opening round of the 2008 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, at the time just the fifth round of 60 or lower in LPGA history. The 60 included a second nine of 27, tying the LPGA's 9-hole scoring record.

A California girl, Paula Creamer took up the sport at age 10 and quickly developed into a top player at the junior level. Like her peer Morgan Pressel, Creamer went on to win 11 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) titles.

In fact, in 2003 Creamer was named AJGA Player of the Year. This followed by a year her membership on the U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team.

Creamer's first significant notice among the greater golf world - outside of junior golf - started coming in 2004 when she was 17. That year she tied for 13th at the U.S. Women's Open. And, playing on a sponsors exemption, Creamer placed second at the LPGA Tour's ShopRite Classic, just one stroke behind winner Cristie Kerr.

Creamer played 10 LPGA Tour tournaments as an amateur in 2003-04, and in five of them finished inside the Top 20.

Ready to move up to the professional ranks, Creamer entered the LPGA's Q-School at the end of 2004, and won it by five shots. She turned pro and joined the tour ... but not before both Golfweek and Golf Digest had selected her as the top amateur of 2004.

Creamer had a great LPGA rookie season in 2005, winning twice, posting 11 Top 10s and finishing second on the money list. The first win came at the Sybase Classic, four days before she graduated high school. Creamer was 18 years, 9 months, 17 days old at the time, making her the third-youngest winner in LPGA history.

And her second victory that year was at the high-dollar Evian Masters in France. Later, she also won on the Japan LPGA tour.

Despite having just one year to accumulate points, Creamer easily qualified for the U.S. Solheim Cup team. Then she led the team to victory, earning the most points for the Americans with a 3-1-1 record.

In 2006 Creamer posted even more top 10s (14), but it was a frustrating year for her in some ways. She failed to win a tournament and struggled for much of the year with a wrist injury.

But Creamer began 2007 by winning the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, and won a second time that year. In 2008, Creamer won four times, including the biggest win to date in her career, the Samsung World Championship. In so doing, she became the first American to win four times on the LPGA Tour since Juli Inkster in 1999.