Creamer wins 2007 LPGA opener

Paula Creamer won the LPGA Tour’s season-opening SBS Open on Saturday for her first victory since 2005, battling the wind to hold off Julieta Granada by a stroke at Kahuku, Hawaii.

The 20-year-old Creamer closed with a two-under-par 70 for a nine-under 207 total and earned $165,000 for her third LPGA Tour title.

Conditions were challenging at Turtle Bay’s oceanside Palmer Course, with occasional showers and trade winds. Only nine of 83 players finished below par.

Granada, who won the season-ending ADT Championship and helped give Paraguay its first Women’s World Cup title last month, shot a 69.

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Andy Bean shot a four-under 67 in cold and windy conditions at Lutz, Fla., for a share of the lead with Wayne Levi in the suspended second round of the Champions Tour’s Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am.

Levi shot a 69, finishing in near darkness, to match Bean at four-under 138 on the TPC Tampa Bay. Levi holed a pitching wedge shot from 118 yards for eagle on the par-four 10th -- his first hole of the day.

First-round leader David Eger (72) was a stroke back, and Tom Wargo (72) was two under.