Paula Creamer
| Paula Creamer | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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Creamer at the 2013 Kingsmill Championship
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Paula Caroline Creamer |
| Nickname | The Pink Panther |
| Born |
August 5, 1986 Mountain View, California |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Windermere, Florida |
| Spouse | Derek Heath (m. 2014) |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2004 |
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2005) |
| Professional wins | 12 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 10 |
| LPGA of Japan Tour | 2 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 1) |
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| ANA Inspiration | T13: 2013 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | T3: 2005, 2011 |
| U.S. Women's Open | Won: 2010 |
| Women's British Open | 3rd/T3: 2009, 2012 |
| Evian Championship | 7th: 2014 |
| Achievements and awards | |
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American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Player of the Year |
2003 |
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Golf Digest Junior of the Year |
2003 |
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Golf Digest Amateur of the Year |
2004 |
| LPGA Rookie of the Year | 2005 |
| (For a full list of awards, see here) | |
Paula Caroline Creamer (born August 5, 1986) is an American professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. As a professional, she has won 12 tournaments, including 10 LPGA Tour events. Creamer has been as high as number 2 in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She was the 2010 U.S. Women's Open champion. As of the end of the 2016 season, Creamer was ninth on the all-time LPGA career money list with earnings of $11,773,647.
As an amateur, Creamer won numerous junior golf titles, including 11 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) tournaments. Creamer joined the LPGA Tour in the 2005 season, and her victory in that year's Sybase Classic made her the LPGA's second-youngest event winner.
Creamer was born in Mountain View, California, and raised in Pleasanton, the only child of an airline pilot father and stay-at-home mother. The family's home overlooked the first tee of the Castlewood Country Club's golf course. Creamer participated in acrobatic dancing and gymnastics during her childhood, and started playing golf when she was 10 years old. At the age of 12, she won 13 consecutive regional junior events in northern California, and the following year she became the top-ranked female junior golfer in California, before moving to Bradenton, Florida in 2000 and enrolling at IMG Pendleton School, a co-educational prep school for athletic students.
During Creamer's amateur career, she won 19 national tournaments, including 11 American Junior Golf Association events, and was named Player of the Year by the AJGA in 2003. On two occasions (2002 and 2003), Creamer played on the United States team in the Junior Solheim Cup. She was a semi-finalist in the 2003 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Amateur, and reached the same stage of both events the following year. In June 2004 Creamer placed second in the LPGA Tour's ShopRite LPGA Classic, finishing one stroke behind Cristie Kerr. Later that year she tied for 13th in the U.S. Women's Open and represented the United States in the Curtis Cup.
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