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Sorenstam and Creamer Battle Over a Drop
LPGA Tour Stars Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer Battle Over a Drop During ADT Championship
By DOUG FERGUSON
The Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - This being Donald Trump's place, Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer might as well have been inside the board room arguing their case. Instead, their dispute took place on the 18th fairway at Trump International late Thursday night, the top two players on the LPGA Tour arguing over where Sorenstam's tee shot crossed the hazard and whether she should have gone back to the tee for her next shot.

No one got fired.

And Creamer says there were no hard feelings, although she stared hard in Sorenstam's direction when the Swede was talking to reporters, and the 19-year-old rookie later engaged in an animated conversation with LPGA Tour commissioner Carolyn Bivens and rules official Janet Lindsay.

Even so, it might have been seedlings for a rivalry between the undisputed star in women's golf and a rising rookie who wasn't about to back down.

"It was her word versus my word," Creamer said.

"We're standing 220 yards away, and we're talking about inches," Sorenstam said.

By the way, the leader after the first round of the season-ending ADT Championship was Hee-Won Han, who chipped in for birdie on the last hole for a 5-under 67.

Sorenstam was tied for the lead until a double bogey on the 18th hole, where she got the drop she wanted but still three-putted from 40 feet and wound up with a 69. Creamer two-putted for par on the last hole, played in the gloaming because the dispute took so long, and had a 68.

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On the 16th green, after Sorenstam played a difficult chip from the side of a bunker to about 6 feet, the Swede asked if she could fix what appeared to be a pitch mark in the line of her putt. Creamer thought it was a scuff mark, made by spikes, that couldn't be repaired.

When Sorenstam called for a rules official, Creamer told her to go ahead and fix it, then turned her back as Sorenstam stooped down to make the repair. Sorenstam missed the putt.

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