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Top 10 Sexiest women golfers in the world
Paula Creamer, Age: 24, Achievements: U.S. Open champion: Paula
Creamer was born on August 5, 1986. She is an American professional golfer on
the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. As a professional, she has won 11 tournaments,
including 9 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 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.
Creamer was born in Mountain View, California and raised in Pleasanton, the only
child of an airline pilot father and stay-at-home mother. The family's home
overlooked the first tee of the Castlewood Country Club's golf course. Creamer
participated in acrobatic dancing and gymnastics during her childhood, and
started playing golf when she was 10 years old. At the age of 12, she won 13
consecutive regional junior events in northern California,and the following year
she became the top-ranked female junior golfer in the state.
During Creamer's amateur career, she won 19 national tournaments, including 11
American Junior Golf Association events, and was named Player of the Year by the
AJGA in 2003. On two occasions (2002 and 2003), Creamer played on the United
States team in the Junior Solheim Cup. She was a semi-finalist in the 2003 U.S.
Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Amateur, and reached the same stage of both
events the following year.In June 2004, Creamer placed second in the LPGA Tour's
ShopRite LPGA Classic, finishing one stroke behind Cristie Kerr. Later that
year, she tied for 13th in the U.S. Women's Open and represented the United
States in the Curtis Cup.
In December 2004, Creamer won the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament by five
strokes to secure membership on the Tour for the 2005 season. She opted to turn
professional immediately after the event at the age of 18.
Upon joining the LPGA Tour in 2005, Creamer quickly became a top player. On May
22, she holed a 17-foot birdie putt on the final hole of the Sybase Classic in
New Rochelle, New York to win by one stroke. Creamer became the youngest winner
of a multiple-round tournament in LPGA history. (Marlene Hagge won twice at a
younger age than Creamer. Both wins came in 18-hole events.)Her record lasted
until 2011, when Lexi Thompson won the Navistar LPGA Classic at the age of 16.
On July 23, she claimed her second title of the year, winning the Evian Masters
tournament in France by an eight-shot margin. She became the youngest and
quickest player to reach $1 million in LPGA career earnings. In August Creamer
won the NEC Open on the Japan LPGA tour,and added a victory at the Masters GC
Ladies tournament two months later.Creamer earned a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup
Team, becoming the youngest player to do so. She helped the U.S. team win the
cup, going 3�1�1 for the competition. Creamer won the LPGA Rookie of the Year
award for her season, in which she earned over $1.5 million, second on the money
list behind Annika S�renstam, and recorded eight top-three finishes.
After her strong first-year performance, Creamer was second behind S�renstam in
the inaugural Women's World Golf Rankings, which were released on February 20,
2006. Her 2006 season, however, was not as successful. She did not win a
tournament, and was hampered by wrist and foot injuries during the year. Creamer
still managed to earn over $1 million and make the cut in all 27 LPGA
tournaments in which she played, compiling 14 top-10 finishes. Her best result
of the season was a tie for second at The Mitchell Company Tournament of
Champions.
In 2007, Creamer rebounded with two LPGA Tour titles. On February 17, she won
her third career LPGA title at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, making a 40-foot
birdie putt on the 17th hole of the final round to defeat Julieta Granada by one
shot. In November, Creamer won The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions,
defeating Birdie Kim by eight strokes. She also played in her second Solheim
Cup, leading both sides in points earned. Creamer went unbeaten in five matches
as the U.S. team retained the cup. For the season, she posted 13 top-10 finishes
and earned over $1.3 million, third on the money list.
In the 2008 season, Creamer won a career-high four LPGA events and made more
than $1.8 million, the highest amount she has earned in a season. In February
2008, she earned her fifth LPGA title at the Fields Open in Hawaii, coming back
from a late two-shot deficit with birdies on the final three holes.On April 27,
Creamer came up short in a bid for her second win of the year, losing in a
sudden-death playoff to S�renstam at the Stanford International Pro-Am. The
following week, Creamer bounced back at the SemGroup Championship by defeating
Juli Inkster in a playoff. At the U.S. Women's Open, she entered the final round
one shot off the lead and in good position to claim her first major championship
victory. However, a five-over-par 78 on the last day dropped her into a tie for
sixth. On July 10 at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, she shot an 11-under
60, just one stroke off of the LPGA Tour record of 59 by Annika S�renstam. She
shot 60�65�70�73 to beat Nicole Castrale by two strokes. Creamer's fourth title
of 2008 came in October's Samsung World Championship, where she won by one
stroke and became the first American with four or more wins in an LPGA Tour
season since Inkster had five tournament victories in 1999. In November of that
same year, Creamer teamed with team International to defeat team Asia for the
Lexus Cup.
At the LPGA Playoffs at the ADT, the last event of the 2008 season, Creamer was
hospitalized with a stomach ailment, which was originally thought to be
peritonitis. The ailment continued to affect her in the opening few months of
the 2009 season, with doctors unable to make an exact diagnosis. At the 2009 U.S.
Women's Open, held at Saucon Valley Country Club, Creamer finished tied for
sixth. In her third Solheim Cup, she was 3�1 as the U.S. again won the
competition. Creamer finished 10th on the 2009 LPGA money list with earnings of
over $1.1 million. Her highest finishes during the season were a pair of
second-place results, at the LPGA Corning Classic and Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
Creamer withdrew from the first event of the 2010 season with a left thumb
injury, which she had first sustained in June 2009 at the Wegmans LPGA
tournament. The injury, believed to be stretched ligaments, required surgery in
March after rehabilitation efforts proved unsuccessful. During the surgery, more
severe damage to her thumb was discovered, including ulnar collateral ligament
and palmar plate tears. She was forced into an extended absence from golf, and
her thumb was still healing by the time she returned in June. In her return
event, the ShopRite LPGA Classic, Creamer finished in seventh place at
10-under-par.On July 11, 2010, in her fourth tournament after returning from her
thumb surgery, Creamer won the U.S. Women's Open. She was the only golfer under
par for the tournament, with a score of 3-under-par, four strokes ahead of
Suzann Pettersen and Na Yeon Choi. It was the first victory in a major in
Creamer's career. The U.S. Women's Open was her only win of the season, but she
had four top-10s in 14 starts.
Creamer did not win a tournament during the 2011 season, though she did have
seven top-five finishes and 10 top-10 finishes. Her highest finishes of the year
were a pair of ties for second, at the HSBC Women's Champions and CME Group
Titleholders.[43] Creamer was again selected to the U.S. Solheim Cup team in
2011. She posted victories in three of her first four matches, but lost in the
singles to Catriona Matthew by a 6&5 score, as the American team lost to Europe.
At the 2012 Kingsmill Championship, Creamer finished the tournament tied with
Jiyai Shin, and the two entered a playoff. They played eight playoff holes, each
parring every time. The playoff was then suspended because of darkness, and it
resumed the following day. Creamer bogeyed the ninth playoff hole, losing to
Shin's par. It was the longest two-player playoff in LPGA Tour history. The
following week, she recorded a third-place finish at the Women's British Open.
Creamer earned over $800,000 and had seven top-10 finishes in the 2012 season,
but was again unable to win any events. As of the end of the 2012 season,
Creamer is seventh on the all-time LPGA career money list with earnings of
$9,594,379.
Achievements and Awards:
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-Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2005 (winners), 2007 (winners),
2009 (winners), 2011
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-Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2005 (winners), 2006, 2008
(winners)
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-Women's World Cup of Golf (representing the United States): 2006
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-American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year: 2003
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-Golfweek Junior of the Year: 2003
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-Golf Digest Junior of the Year: 2003
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-Golfweek Amateur of the Year: 2004
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-Golf Digest Amateur of the Year: 2004
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-American Junior Golf Association Nancy Lopez Award: 2005
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-LPGA Rookie of the Year: 2005.
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Dated 04 December 2012
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