Injured Creamer aims to compete in LPGA Corning Classic

Golf glamour girl, Paula Creamer has been passed fit to compete in the LPGA’s Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club, where she is the defending champion and also to play in next week’s US Women’s Open. The certification fame from the hand and wrist specialist she consulted on Monday in Toledo, Ohio.

Creamer was forced to withdraw from the Wegmans LPGA tournament last Friday due to injury; she was diagnosed with tendonitis and inflammation of the joint capsule of her left thumb. The specialist she saw gave her an injection of cortisone and providing she can withstand the undoubted pain she’ll suffer in the course of playing golf, the specialist believes there will be no lasting injury.

Creamer had injured her hand during the second round of the Wegmans and left the tournament sporting a heavily strapped left hand. After some light putting following the injection, Creamer intends to try and play nine holes ahead of her title defence, and she will be hopeful of making the lineup following a disappointing season thus far that has been blighted with illness and injury.

Creamer is already an eight-time winner on the LPGA, although she hasn’t mustered a win so far in 2009. She has recorded one runners-up finish and three third places and currently lies fourth in the world rankings and eighth on this month’s money list.

The Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic tournament brings together nine of the top ten woman golfers in the world and names joining Creamer in the lineup include Natalie Gulbis, Lorena Ochoa and Juli Inkster.