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Paula Creamer – America’s Sweetheart and U.S. Open Winner

SHE TURNED CARTWHEELS AT ST. ANDREWS, AND WAS A WHIRLWIND AT OAKMONT:  PAULA CREAMER, AMERICAS SWEETHEART
SHE TURNED CARTWHEELS AT ST. ANDREWS, AND WAS A WHIRLWIND AT OAKMONT: PAULA CREAMER, AMERICA'S SWEETHEART

The Pink Panther struck again! No, not Peter Sellers and his hilarious, bumbling French Detective, this is America’s Pink Panther, sweet smiling, sweet swinging Paula Creamer, who won the 2010 Women’s U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Our great All-American girl won at one of our quintessential All-American golf courses.

Creamer closed with a 69 to finish the tournament at 3-under, four shots clear of Korea’s Na Yeon Choi and Norway’s Suzann Petterson. Creamer overcame a hyper-extended thumb which sidelined her much of the year, as well as stomach problems that limited her appearances in 2008 and 2009.

Eight of the top ten players closed with rounds under 70 over the par-71 6,613 yard course. Choi closed with a 66 and Song Kim shot a 65, the two lowest rounds of the tournament.

Dude?! Where’s me Oakmont? Oakmonster? What Oakmonster? They chopped it up like sushi…on a Sunday!

“We could be a lot more agressive because the course played one to two clubs shorter today,” said Choi. “I could be more aggressive on all of my shots as opposed to the way the course played the rest of the week. On one hole, where I normally had a three wood in to the green, I hit four iron. Which is a considerable difference.”

“I don’t think it played 6600 yards today,” agreed one journalist/AWITP correspondent who covered the tournament. They couldn’t play it if they had it that length, and they didn’t want these women to be embarrassed.”

Still, Creamer was the only player to finish under par for the week. Her 281 aggregate put her at 3-under for the tournament.

“I was in pain, but I was trying to do everything to not think about it,” Creamer said, one day after the she told the media, she was afraid her thumb would “explode.”

That’s another reason why we love Paula…great competitor, great person, and great quote.

With the pins in exactly the same places for Sunday as they were for the 2007 U.S. Open won by Angel Cabrera, Creamer was a leg up on the competition after watching hours of video about the course and about championships conducted at Oakmont. The work paid dividends as she dominated the event, getting stronger each day. After opening with a 72, she carded two 70s before closing with the same 69 Cabrera shot on Sunday.