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Paula Creamer Profile |
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Birth Date: August 5, 1986
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Birth Place: Mountain View, California, USA
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Birth Name: Paula Creamer
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Paula Creamer was born on August 5, 1986, in Mountain View,
California. She began playing golf when she was 10 and honed
her skills on the amateur circuit. During her career as a
junior, she won the American Junior Golf Association title
on 11 occasions, and a total of 19 national amateur
tournaments overall. In 2002, at the age of 15, she was a
member of the winning U. S. team at the PING Junior Solheim
Cup. That same year, she finished a joint sixth in the
combined boys and girls' final totals, and represented the
United States at the R&A Junior Open at Royal Musselburgh.
In 2003, 16-year-old Paula became a semi-finalist at both
the U.S. Girls' and the U.S. Women's Amateur Championships.
She played on the victorious U.S. Spirit Team, one of only
two high school juniors to make the cut. She also
represented her country in the Curtis Cup and Junior Solheim
Cup tournaments. Paula was named the AJGA Player of the Year
for 2003, as well as Golfweek's and Golf Digest's Junior of
the Year, titles she'd claim again the following year.
Paula held on to her position as top-ranked female amateur
in 2004. She repeated her previous year's status as a
semi-finalist at both the U.S. Women's Amateur and the
Junior Girls' Championships, was a member of the victorious
Curtis Cup Team and represented the U. S. at the World
Amateur Team Championships. Furthermore, she finished 13th
at the Wegmans Rochester LPGA, 18th at the Wendy's
Championship for Children, and tied for 18th at the BMO
Financial Group Canadian Women's Open.
Paula earned the opportunity to join the 2005 LPGA tour
after her five-shot win at the 2004 LPGA Tour Qualifying
School. The victory made her the first amateur and the
youngest player ever to win the event, and she promptly
turned professional after finishing the final round. On May
22, 2005, she earned her first LPGA tournament victory,
winning the Sybase Classic in New Rochelle, New York. A
couple of months shy of her 19th birthday, Creamer became
the second-youngest first-time LPGA champ in history.
Just days after her triumph at New Rochelle, Paula graduated
from Pendleton High School in Bradenton, Florida. In July of
2005, Paula traveled to Europe, where she was victorious at
the Evian Masters tournament in France. She next won the NEC
Open and the Masters GC Ladies Classic, both part of the
Japanese LPGA tour. In August, she became the youngest
player and the first tour rookie ever to join the Solheim
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Other
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5'9”, brown hair, green eyes
Started playing golf at the age of 10
Credits Larry O'Leary, David Kern, Jonathon Hughes, Ian
Segneri and especially David Whelan and her mother and
father as the individuals most influencing her career
Enjoys fashion, shopping, movies and music
Qualified for the Tour on her first attempt. |
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