Paula Creamer

Paula Creamer is a professional golfer in America and she plays in LPGA tour based in US.  She won around 12 tournaments which include 10 LPGA tour events. She was number 2 in Women’s World Golf Ranking ad she won 2010 champion of US Women’s Open. While she was still an amateur, she won many junior titles such as American Junior Golf Association, AJGA for 11 times.  She joined LPGS tour since 2005 season and her winning in the Sybase Classic, turned her to be one of the second youngest winner in the events.


Paula Creamer is a daughter and only child to an airline pilot and her mother was a stay at home mother. The home of her family was over the first tee at the golf course of Castlewood Country club.  When he was still young, she participated into the gymnastic and acrobatic dancing.  She started to play golf when she was only10 years old. When she was 12 years, she won regional junior events for 13 times in the Northern California.  In the following year, she was the top ranked junior golfer in the entire state for the females and she moved to Florida in the 2000 where she enrolled into the IMG Academy.

While she was still an amateur, she got 19national tournaments and these included the 11 wins in the American Junior Golf Association. She married her fiancé in 2014 and during the season she was focusing more on her wedding but not on the game. Her fiancé is Derek Heath who is a pilot of the Air Force and he is in active reserve. The couple came to know each other because of their parents. The father of Paula and the father of Derek were flying together when they were in Navy and they decided to be commercial airline pilots afterwards.  They continue to be good friends.

When she announced her engagement, many people become concerned on how long she may continue to play. But she said that she is too young to stop playing right now.  However, she said that one day she will work away from everything because she knows that it is hard to try to balance family and playing especially because she wants to have the children one day.

When the ice bucket challenge came about, many people who are participating were men and the women decided to do their challenge, strictly not for men. Paula Creamer also had a go on the challenges and her photos and video can be found on her website. The problem is that her challenge looked as if it was staged and she did not follow the dress code of the challenge which forbids wearing sportswear in black.

Paula Creamer has short drives and her average driving distance is around 245 distances. She was ranked 193 in the LPGA Tour and Beth Daniel who was a player, said that her short hitting had stopped her away from dominating the game. Since she likes to wear pink, she was called Pink Panther. Fans follow her on twitter. 

Last Modified: Apr 8, 2020


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