ST. LEON-ROT, Germany – Paula Creamer walked into her hotel room at the Solheim Cup and immediately put her clubs in the team bag. Giddy might be the best way to describe it. Grateful, too.
So far the captain’s pick is saying all the right things and projecting the right demeanor. Her teammates, for their part, repeat the same chorus: “Creamer will rise to the occasion.”
Cristie Kerr, a woman who likes to tell it straight, had this to say about what she has seen from Creamer in Germany: “I’ve never seen her make this many putts in practice and hit that many hybrids close to the hole.