Paula Creamer | |||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||
Full name | Paula Creamer | ||||||||
Nickname | The Pink Panther | ||||||||
Born | Mountain View, California, U.S. | August 5, 1986||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1] | ||||||||
Sporting nationality | United States | ||||||||
Residence | Windermere, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||
Spouse |
Derek Heath
(m. 2014; div. 2018) | ||||||||
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) | |||||||||
Chevron Championship | 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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(For a full list of awards, see here) |
Paula Creamer (born August 5, 1986)[2] 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 2023 season, Creamer was 19th on the all-time LPGA career money list with earnings of $12,161,187.[3]
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.