Sorenstam outlasts Creamer for 71st LPGA Tour victory at inaugural Stanford International Pro-Am

4/28/2008

Aventura, Fla., April 27, 2008 – It may have taken a one-hole, sudden-death playoff, but Annika Sorenstam (68-67-70-70=275, -8) became the second multiple winner on the LPGA Tour this season, winning the Stanford International Pro-Am and simultaneously punching her ticket to the season-ending ADT Championship.

The 71-time Tour winner outlasted five-time winner Paula Creamer (68-71-67-69=275, -8) in the first playoff of the season, improving her career playoff record to 16-6. It was the first playoff of Creamer's four-year LPGA Tour career.

Trailing by one stroke at the start of the round, Creamer quickly amassed a one stroke lead over Sorenstam by carding back-to-back birdies on the second and third holes of the Soffer Course at Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club.

Sorenstam knotted the leaderboard with a birdie on the sixth hole, and jumped ahead as Creamer bogeyed the next. The “Pink Panther” and “Ms. 59” traded birdies on the ninth and 10th holes, but Creamer's birdie on the 11th put both players at 9-under.

Sorenstam bogeyed the 13th hole, and Creamer maintained her one-stroke lead until she followed with her second bogey of the day on the par-3, 144-yard 17th hole, which led to the playoff.

Sorenstam clinched win No. 71 with a tap-in for par, while Creamer made bogey.

Leaderboard – Final:

1. Annika Sorenstam            68 67 70 70 275 - 8
2. Paula Creamer                68 71 67 69 275 - 8
3. Karrie Webb                    73 69 70 64 276 - 7
    Young Kim                      67 67 73 69 276 - 7
5. Momoko Ueda                 68 72 67 71 278 - 5
6. Angela Park                    71 72 68 69 280 - 3
    Seon Hwa Lee                 74 68 69 69 280 - 3
    Cristie Kerr                     69 72 67 72 280 - 3
9. Lindsey Wright                70 71 75 65 281 - 2
    Hee Young Park              69 73 71 68 281 - 2
    Eun-Hee Ji                      75 69 69 68 281 - 2

Source: AP, LPGA Tour