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Paula Creamer is a professional <a href="/biography/paula-creamer">golfer</a> from the United States who competes on the LPGA Tour. She has won 12 tournaments in her professional career, including 10 LPGA Tour events, and has reached the top of the Women's World Golf Rankings as high as second. She won the U.S. Women's Open in 2010. Creamer was 10th on the all-time LPGA career money list as of the end of the 2019 season, with $12,131,822.

<h2>Early Life</h2>

Paula was born in Mountain View, California, and raised in Pleasanton, the only child of an airline pilot and a homemaker mother. As a child, she was an active participant in acrobatic dancing and gymnastics and dreamed of being a cheerleader. By the time Creamer was ten years old, she was playing golf. Creamer's father, airline pilot Paul Creamer, played the game daily. The family home was next to Castlewood Country Club, where Creamer learned to play. It was immediately apparent that the young girl had talent. She soon left the dance team behind and began competing in tournaments. When Creamer was eleven years old, she was victorious in 18 successive junior matches.

To further Creamer's career, the family moved to Florida in 2000. The young golfer honed her golf game at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy. She also became a student at the Pendleton School, a private high school that primarily educated elite athletes. While focusing on her education, Creamer continued to compete in amateur and junior tournaments as a young teenager. She also played in select elite golf events worldwide, such as in 2002, when she was the female U.S. <a href="/biography/paula-creamer">representative</a> at the R…A Junior Open in Royal Musselburgh, England. Creamer finished sixth in the combined finals totals. By age 12, she had won 13 junior events in a row. By 13, Creamer had already become the top-ranked female junior golfer in the state, winning 19 national tournaments, including 11 American Junior Golf Association events. She was also s named Player of the Year by AJGA in 2003. Creamer has even represented the U.S in the Curtis Cup. Just four days before graduating from high school, she made a 17-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the Sybase Classic presented by Lincoln-Mercury and become the youngest winner of a multi-round event in LPGA history the age of 18 years, nine months, and 17 days.

<h2>Career</h2>

Creamer's first significant notice among the more fantastic 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 sponsor exemption, Creamer placed second at the LPGA Tour's ShopRite Classic, just one stroke behind <a href="/biography/cristie-kerr">winner</a> <a href="/biography/cristie-kerr">Cristie Kerr</a>.

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.

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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, nine months, 17 days old at the time, making her, at that time, the third-youngest <a href="/biography/paula-creamer">winner</a> 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 quickly qualified for the U.S. Solheim Cup team. Then she led the team to victory, earning the most points for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans">Americans</a> 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, becoming the first American to win four times on the LPGA Tour since <a href="/biography/juli-inkster">Juli Inkster</a> in 1999.

She went winless on the LPGA in 2009, then started 2010 suffering an injury in the season opener. Creamer underwent thumb surgery and returned after several months of rehab. Shortly after that, Creamer won the 2010 U.S. Women's Open for her first career major.

Creamer had several consistently good seasons after winning the Open, but it was nearly four years until her subsequent victory. She finally won again - career win No. 10 - at the 2014 HSBC Women's Champions.

<h2>Playing Style</h2>

Her drives are short; her average driving distance was about 245 yards on the LPGA tour. However, she is considered an accurate ball-striker. Due to her liking for the pink color, her friend nicknamed her the "Pink Panther." She sports the same color on the sports accessories also

Since 2005 Creamer has done charitable work for The First Tee, an organization that benefits junior golfers. She hosts the Paula 4 Kids Celebrity Event, an annual outing that raises money for The First Tee of Sarasota/Manatee. In addition, Creamer has appeared at youth golf clinics and donated scholarships to IMG Academy. She also has a foundation that aids junior golfers and military families.

Despite her success on the women's tour, Creamer had no genuine desire to play in the men's Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour. Creamer's goal was to become the best player in the world in women's golf. She told Damon Hack of the New York Times, "I know what it takes to win events. I've won from behind, I've won from tied, and I've won from in the lead. I've won all three ways you can win. Once you're there and you've done it, it becomes kind of routine. For me, I think the most important thing is to know how to win and how to compete under pressure."

She gives credit to her mother and father, late Ernie Barbour, Jonathan Hughes, David Kern, Ian Segneri, and especially David Whelan for helping her build her career.

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