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| Creamer claims seventh LPGA Tour victory at Jamie Farr
After missing the cut last year, Paula Creamer sat in the locker room and vowed to win this year's Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Presented by Kroger for her sponsor - Owens Corning - and for all the pink-clad fans that followed her around Highland Meadows Golf Club. She made good on her promise today with a two-stroke victory over Nicole Castrale. The 21-year-old struggled in the final round, shooting 2-over-par 73, but her four-day total of 16-under-par (60-65-70-73=268) was good enough to claim her third victory of the 2008 campaign.
"After you shoot 60, I swear it's the hardest thing to come back out and play," Creamer said after accepting the $195,000 winner's check. "I managed to get it done. I hit a lot of good shots today. I can't be disappointed. If somebody was to go out and play a lot better than, then so be it. We thought we hit every number. We did. We made some good saves, it was a struggle."
Creamer stumbled out of the gates with a bogey on one and made the turn at 1-over-par for the day. Two more bogies and a lone birdie on 13 where she rolled in a nine-foot birdie putt capped her day. Meanwhile, Californian Nicole Castrale (70-69-67-64=270) kept things interesting by firing a 7-under-par 64 in windy conditions. Castrale's tally left her two shots off the pace of Creamer, but still left her with the best round of the day by three full strokes.
"I knew I was going to have to shoot a good number and with the wind being as much as it was today, if there was a way to catch her it was going to be today with it being windy," said one-time LPGA Tour winner Castrale. "So I may come up a few short but I gave it my all."
2008 Wegmans LPGA champion Eun-Hee Ji finished alone in third at 13-under-par (65-66-68-72=271).
Feng earns career-best finish. 18-year-old Shanshan Feng recorded a career-best fourth place finish at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Presented by Kroger. The first exempt LPGA member from China, Feng came within two strokes of eventual winner Paula Creamer after making birdie on hole 11. Three consecutive bogies dropped her out of Sunday afternoon contention, but the LPGA Tour rookie managed to finish at12-under-par (69-70-64-69=272) and cash the largest paycheck of her LPGA career ($66,314).
Young Americans in top-10. 27-year-old Kristy McPherson, 30-year-old Angela Stanford and 22-year-old Brittany Lincicome were three of five young Americans to finish the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Presented by Kroger in the top-10. In a tie for seventh place, Lincicome (70-67-67-71=275) and McPherson (74-66-64-71=275) each carded even-par in the final round to end at 9-under par 275. Stanford rolled into Sunday tied for seventh, before firing a 1-under round, falling to ninth place at 8-under par (69-70-67-70=276).
Two-time LPGA winner Lincicome's ninth place finish was her best of the season, and first in the top-10. McPherson, a 2003 graduate of the University of South Carolina, earned her third top-10 finish, and second seventh place showing of the season (finished seventh at the Corona Championship). Stanford claimed her fourth top-10 finish, and highest since the SemGroup Championship (tied for third) in May.
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