SORENSTAM OUTLASTS CREAMER FOR 71ST LPGA TOUR VICTORY AT INAUGURAL STANFORD INTERNATIONAL PRO-AM

Aventura, Fla., April 27, 2008 – It may have taken a one-hole, sudden-death playoff, but Annika Sorenstam (68-67-70-70=275, -8) became the second multiple winner on the LPGA Tour this season, winning the Stanford International Pro-Am and simultaneously punching her ticket to the season-ending ADT Championship. The 71-time Tour winner outlasted five-time winner Paula Creamer (68-71-67-69=275, -8) in the first playoff of the season, improving her career playoff record to 16-6. It was the first playoff of Creamer's four-year LPGA Tour career.

"I thought I played very well, and so did Paula. She played excellent. I know it came down to the last, well, it took 19 holes to separate us. It could have gone really any way," Sorenstam said. "I'm just fortunate that this time it was my turn, and I'm going cherish this moment. Like I said, I felt like I played well the whole week. This is a big tournament on our schedule, and it meant a lot to me to come down the stretch there and hit some really crucial shots and finish strong."

Trailing by one stroke at the start of the round, Creamer quickly amassed a one stroke lead over Sorenstam by carding back-to-back birdies on the second and third holes of the Soffer Course at Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club. Sorenstam knotted the leaderboard with a birdie on the sixth hole, and jumped ahead as Creamer bogeyed the next. The "Pink Panther" and "Ms. 59" traded birdies on the ninth and 10th holes, but Creamer's birdie on the 11th put both players at 9-under. Sorenstam bogeyed the 13th hole, and Creamer maintained her one-stroke lead until she followed with her second bogey of the day on the par-3, 144-yard 17th hole, which led to the playoff. Sorenstam clinched win No. 71 with a tap-in for par, while Creamer made bogey.