http://local.globe.com/golfcan/2011/08/creamer.flv
MIRABEL, Que. - Paula Creamer likes coming to Canada. She just doesn't like getting sick here.
"I always seem to get sick when I come to Canada," said the No. 9 ranked player in the world ahead of this week's CN Canadian Women's Open north of Montreal. "I'm keeping my fingers crossed this year that that doesn't happen."
Not that illness has kept her from putting up some good results north of the border. In four appearances at the Canadian Open, she's recorded a pair of top-10 finishes including a second place result back in 2007 in Edmonton. In all, she's played 15 of 16 total rounds in par or better.
While she has yet to hit the winner's circle in 2011, it's been a pretty good campaign for the 25-year-old who has six top-10 results, including three in the last six events.
"I've been working really, really hard on my golf swing. Trying to change some things," said Creamer, one of only six LPGA regulars who have made the cut in every tournament she's entered.
"I feel like I've been working really hard. Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards.
"It's very easy to revert back to your old habits when you get to a golf tournament, and that is something that I don't want to do because I want to take this the rest of the season and into next year."
Creamer, a crowd favourite wherever she plays, had one of the bigger walking crowds following her throughout Wednesday's pro-am at the Hillsdale Golf and Country Club, a course she has never played until this week but one she thinks will suit her game.
"This golf course is nice. It's pretty generous fairways. Really big greens, so it comes down to who has the best distance control with their irons, and right now that's kind of playing up to my strengths. Hopefully the rain stays away."