Paula Creamer, who drilled a “miracle” 75-foot putt at the 2014 HSBC Women’s Champions in March, got her 2015 season off to a thrilling start with a hole-in-one in Thursday’s second round of the LPGA’s season-opening Coates Golf Championship.
Paula Creamer aces 6th hole at LPGA season-opener
Paula Creamer makes a hole-in-one in the second round of the LPGA Tour’s first tournament of the 2015 season.
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It took a while for the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open champ to pull the trigger on the 162-yard par-3 sixth at Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club in Ocala, Fla., but her 5-iron shot was worth the wait.
Drinks on me!!!!!!! Whoop whoop hole in one!!!!!!! http://t.co/yVBNNlV5Ko
— Paula Creamer (@ThePCreamer) January 30, 2015 “I’ve kind of been trying to figure out my distances with my irons,” Creamer said after posting a 2-under 70 to get to 2-under for the tournament and enter the third round tied for 16th, 10 shots behind frontrunner Ha Na Jang. “I hit a little 5, it was perfect, it was a beautiful hole-in-one. It was exactly what we wanted it to do. It was high, a little cut to that right pin, and just bounced and then just trickled on in.”
Playing partner Michelle Wie enjoyed the experience almost as much as the author of the shot.
“I looked at it in the air and I was like, ‘Oh, that looks really good,’” said Wie of Creamer’s second ace in competition on the LPGA Tour. “Then, ‘Oh it looks really good.’
“It’s always fun to see a hole-in-one,” Wie added
Creamer’s previous hole-in-one on tour was on the 12th hole at the Honda LPGA Thailand in February 2012.
With darkness suspending second-round play on Thursday, the tournament was scheduled to resume at 7:30 a.m. ET on Friday.
