Paula Creamer Matures
Paula Creamer is learning early what Natalie Gulbis has yet to learn: you can’t spread yourself too thin with commitments, and still expect to contend each week on the LPGA. By her own standards, she didn’t have a good sophmore season in 2006 because she didn’t win. By anyone else’s standard she had a very good year: no cuts in 27 starts and 14 top-10 finishes. However, like all top-tier players, she’s out there to win, and this year she’s scaled back the number of tournaments she’s going to play (not unlike Woods and Mickelson).
And unfortunately, this doesn’t bode well for tournament directors around the country who’d like to have Creamer in their tournament, but one thing Creamer does understand is marketing and fan support, and I don’t see totally cherry-picking events for the rest of her career. What the LPGA has going for it in Creamer is a top-tier golfer that wins tournaments, and can sell magazines and calendars.