Golf Central

Lost in all the hubbub of Tiger Woods' smashing victory at the WGC-Match Play Championship in Arizona is the fact that Paula Creamer has really nice legs.

(Sorry, we digressed there, for a minute. But try looking at nothing but pictures of Tiger Woods for five straight days, and then you see a picture of Paula Creamer's legs, and it makes you realise that there's more to golf than the Big Cat. Sorry, Tiger).

And not only that, Paula's victory in Kapolei, Hawaii at the Fields Open was dramatic in its own right. The 21-year-old starlet has a streak of her own going: Creamer has now won twice in her last four starts, and that's LPGA Tour victory No. 5 for the chirpy little daughter of an airline pilot from California. Using her trademark pink ball in the final round, Creamer shot 66 for a 16-under total of 200, with four birdies on the final five holes to beat Jeong Jang of South Korea.

"I'll always remember this finish," said Paula. So will we. Thanks, Paula ... and look out, Lorena Ochoa ...

PGA Tour
Mayakoba Golf Classic: About the only scenery more stunning than Paula Creamer's pins this weekend were the gorgeous vistas of El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, on Mexico's tropical Yucatan peninsula. This is where the PGA Tour kindly sent the rest of its players not qualified for the elite-only world match play field in Arizona, and what a nice trip it was for the "opposite-field" boys.

It was especially so for Brian Gay, who won his first PGA Tour title by two shots over Steve Marino after closing with a 1-under 69. It was Gay's 293rd career PGA Tour start (only 12 active players had entered more events on the tour without a win than the 36-year-old Texan). Gay had notched a pair of second-place finishes, at the 2001 Colonial and the 2002 Buick Open ...

Champions Tour
Champions Skins Game: There was another rally in Kaanapali, Hawaii, where the old-timers were battling it out in the alternate-shot team skins event. Fuzzy Zoeller and Peter Jacobsen teamed up to win six skins and $320,000, knocking off defending champs, the legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. One of these days, we want to turn 50, go to Hawaii, smoke stogies, and win a lot of money for a skins game. We just need a little more time to practice the old golf game, though ...

Nationwide Tour
Moonah Classic: In the co-sanctioned Australasian-Nationwide Tour event in Melbourne, Australia, 25-year-old Aussie Ewan Porter waltzed to victory with a final-round 66 for a 13-under winning total, enough for a seven-shot win over DJ Brigman and Tee McCabe from the States.