Currently ranked 7th in the World Paula Creamer has become one of the most notable American woman’s golfers and holds the torch as highest rated US player in the LPGA. Although it seems like Creamer has been on tour forever, she is only 23 years old. She burst onto the LPGA scene in 2005 as a much accomplished ameteur and 11 AJGA championships tied to her. In her first season she became the second youngest player to win an event when she won just outside of NYC at the Sybase Classic. She followed that up later that year with a big win at the Evian Masters, a pretigious tournament in Europe.
In her five years on tour she has jumped into the winner circle eight times, and has risen in popularity amongst fans of woman’s golf. But she, like Sergio Garcia on the men’s tour, holds the unforunate burdon of being known as the ‘best player on tour without a major.” In her case I think it’s a little unfair because the competition has grown emensely on the LPGA and she has only been on tour for five years.
But Creamer is known by another name too…“The Pink Panther.” She got this name for her fondness of wearing the color pink. She has also turned this into a Sunday Pink thing similar to Tiger Wood’s Sunday Red. She has taken it so far that she even uses a pink ball on Sunday. 2009 was not one of Creamer’s best seasons, as she did not win at all. But she was a crucial member of the winning US Solheim Cup team. I, among others, expect big things from Creamer in 2010. I think it will be the year she finally brings home a major title, and think she will even get into double digits in her LPGA win total.
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