Paula Creamer wins the SemGroup Championship at Broken Arrow - Texas
May 5th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Paula Creamer said she erased the memory of her first LPGA playoff loss last week before she stepped off the plane in Tulsa on Tuesday afternoon, but a bogey on the 72nd hole of regulation at Cedar Ridge CC brought those memories flooding back in. It took the 21 year old Creamer two sudden-death playoff holes, but eventually she prevailed over good friend and U.S. Solheim Cup teammate Juli Inkster at the SemGroup Championship Presented by John Q. Hammons.
Creamer had a two-shot lead and was in the 18th fairway at Cedar Ridge when it all turned around. She hit 5-iron over the green and under the TV tower, chipping to 10 feet and missing the par putt. Inkster, a 47-year-old trying for the second time in Tulsa to become the LPGA Tour’s oldest champion, stuffed her 8-iron into 18 feet and watched it fall for birdie on the final turn.
“I think it made me upset,” she said. “I had so much to overcome from last week. There was no reason to be in a playoff.”
Creamer closed with a 1-over 72, the first time in her six career victories she won with a final round over par. She finished at 2-under 282 and earned $270,000.
Creamer won for the first time without her parents at the tournament, another small step in proving she can do it all by herself. She immediately called Nancy Lopez, her former Solheim Cup captain and mentor who was in Florida last week consoling Creamer.Inkster (72-73-67-70=282) walked onto the 18th hole Sunday down by two strokes, but she found herself in familiar position after draining an 18-footer for birdie, her third of the day, and watching Creamer bogey. Last year, Inkster lost in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff to Mi Hyun Kim.
“I’m encouraged by the way I’m playing, but I’m frustrated that I… just didn’t seem like me out there today,” said Inkster, who earned $166,426 on Sunday. “I just couldn’t get a feel for the putting.”
Final Scores:
1 Paula Creamer -2
2 Juli Inkster -2
3 Jeong Jang +2
3 Angela Stanford +2
5 Dorothy Delasin +3
5 Brittany Lang +3
5 Lorena Ochoa +3
8 Jemin Kang +4
9 Karin Koch +5
9 Jee Young Lee +5
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Lorena Ochoa Wins the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore
March 3rd, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
HSBC Womens’s Champions - Singapore
March 2 2008
Lorena Ochoa has won the inagural HSBC Women’s Champions tournament with a wire-to-wire victory by 11 strokes. In her first competition of the year, the 26 year old Mexican sealed her victory with some impressive play. She is rewarded with a pay check of $300,000 and Ochoa has now gained her entrance into the LPGA end of season ADT championship which she won last year. She now has 18 career wins and over $10.7 million in earnings since joining the Tour in 2003.
“It’s a fantastic week,” said Ochoa, “Starting on Thursday, the first two days, pretty low rounds, and on the weekend I wasn’t as good with the putter but I managed to shoot under par every day.”
The last round was interupted by a couple of weather delays with heavy rains making it impossible to continue. Ochoa had just started her round when after 12 minutes the first halt was called. Play was delayed twice more before the round finished.
“I was able to keep my patience every time they called us off, just not get mad, so I was like okay, try to be positive about it, one more time,” said Ochoa. “I ate a couple times, they had good food, and I was just trying to relax.”
In fact Ochoa birdied holes 2,3,9 and 16 and coasted to victory and a final round of 68.
Her scores were 66-65-69-68 =268 (-20).
Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer, the world Rolex number 2 and 5 respectively fought it out in a great battle for second place. Sorenstam eventually birdied holes 13 and 16 to pull 2 shots clear and finished the day with a 1 under par 71.
2nd place Annika Sorenstam (71-67-70-73=279)-9
3rd place Paula Creamer (67-71-70=73=281)-7
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Fields Open In Hawaii - Paula Creamer Wins
February 24th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Paula Creamer wins Fields Open in Hawaii. Feb 23, 2008.
Creamer really turned it on and birdied four of the last five holes to win the Fields Open. Playing with Jeong Jang who was the leader for 36 holes, Creamer carded 6 birdies in her final round to win by 1 shot at 16 under par 200 (66-68-66). This is her 5th LPGA Tour win the last being The Mitchell Company LPGA Tournament of Champions last November.
Creamer who was fighting flu-type symptoms earned $195,000 for the win. She started the final round two strokes behind Jang at 10 under par. She had birdies at 1 and 3 closing the gap. Jang went ahead again by making a 10 ft putt for birdie on the 6th hole. Both players birdied the par 5 14th hole. Jang then went ahead again with a birdie on 15. But then Creamer made her decisive move and birdied the last 3 holes to win. Her score was a tournament record.
Jeong Jang shot 3 under to take second place. (64-68-69=201, -15).
Lindsey Wright’s 14-under-par 202 (69-66-67) resulted in a third-place finish.
Annika Sorenstam shot a final round of 4 under par to take a fourth place finish in her second tournament of the year (70-66-68=204, -12) , after winning last weeks SBS Open at Turtle Bay.
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