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Thursday, 22 February 2007

"Pink Panther" Paula Creamer

Paula CramerrPaula Creamer is a woman golf star who just loves the colour pink. Paula Creamer's friend Casey Wittenberg once nicknamed her the "Pink Panther" and this is a name her fans now all know her by. Paula Creamer's golf clubs have pink grips, her golf bag is coloured pink and she will even occasionally use pink golf balls to play her sport with.

Paula Creamer, 20, was born in Mountain View, California and grew up in Pleasanton where she was educated at Foothill High School, although she went on to graduate from Pendleton High School in Bradenton, Florida, where she currently lives.

Paula Creamer began playing golf at the early age of ten and she went on to pursue a very successful amateur career, winning a total of 19 amateur national titles, including 11 American Junior Golf Association tournaments.

Aged just sweet 16, Paul Creamer was a semi-finalist in the 2003 US Women's Amateur Championship and she reached the same stage in 2004.
 
As well as this in 2004, Paula Creamer came second in the ShopRite LPGA Classic and tied for 13th in the US Women's Open. Besides this success, Paula Creamer played for the United States in the Curtis Cup and was named Amateur of the Year by both Golfweek and Golf Digest.

Paula Creamer won the 2004 LPGA Tour Qualifying School by five shots, and in so doing qualified for membership on the tour for 2005. It was then that Paula Creamer turned professional woman golfer.

Paula Creamer won the Sybase Classic tournament in New Rochelle, New York on On May 22, 2005.  Paula Creamer was then aged 18 years 9 months and 17 days and the second-youngest first time winner of an LPGA tournament following after Marlene Bauer-Hagge who had won in 1952.

Paula Creamer also won in the Evian Masters tournament in France May 22, 2005 and she became the youngest and quickest player to reach $1 million in LPGA career earnings.

As well as that triumph at the Evian masters event, in August 2005, Paula Creamer won the NEC Open on the Japan LPGA tour and she earned a spot on the 2005 Solheim Cup Team. Paula Creamer was the youngest player to achieve this and she was given the title of LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2005.

Paula "Pink Panther" Creamer's fifth professional golfing victory arrived in February 2007 at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

Paula Creamer has endorsement deals with Taylor Made, Adidas, RBS, NEC, Kraft and Sundog Eyewear - big companies who see a bright future ahead for the "Pink Panther" who has been ranked in the top 10 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

 


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Paula Creamer is a woman golf star who just loves the colour pink. Paula Creamer's friend Casey Wittenberg once nicknamed her the "Pink Panther" and this is a name her fans now all know her by. Paula Creamer's golf clubs have pink grips, her golf bag is coloured pink and she will even occasionally use pink golf balls to play her sport with.
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