Paula Creamer took up golf at the age of ten and enjoyed a precocious amateur career. She won a total of 19 amateur national titles including 11 American Junior Golf Association tournaments. She was a semi-finalist in the 2003 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at the age of 16 and reached the same stage in 2004. In the same year she came second in the ShopRite LPGA Classic on the LPGA Tour and tied 13th in the U.S. Women's Open, and also represented the United States in the Curtis Cup. She won the 2004 LPGA Tour Qualifying School by five shots, thus gaining membership of the tour for 2005. She was the youngest player and the first amateur to win the event, and turned professional immediately afterwards.

On May 22 2005 Creamer won the Sybase Classic golf tournament in New Rochelle, New York at 18 years 9 months and 17 days. This made her the second-youngest first time winner of an LPGA tournament after Marlene Hagge, whose first victory was back in 1952. A few days later she graduated from Pendleton School in Bradenton, Florida.

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