Safe but sore: Paula Creamer (@ThePCreamer) has a strained muscle in her neck and is battling the after effects of whiplash, but she's thankful that her injuries aren't worse following a five-vehicle car crash on Sunday night in Thailand. The crash, which also involved fellow LPGA players Ai Miyazato and Suzann Pettersen, occurred as the three were riding in cars to the airport in Bangkok to catch their flights to Singapore. "I've felt better, that's for sure," Creamer said during Tuesday morning's press conference. "Those things happen all the time and you can't control something like that.
"We will see what happens. I feel worse today than I did yesterday. I had pretty bad whiplash from hitting the headrest but I took it easy and I hope that I can tee it up on Thursday…It's pretty amazing, like I said, how we walked away but things happen."
Like Creamer, Miyazato is still dealing with some whiplash from the accident. She hit about 20 golf balls on the range on Tuesday but her neck was hurting so she decided not to push herself beyond that. Miyazato is still considered "day-to-day" and hasn't made a decision yet on whether she'll be able to play when the tournament tees off on Thursday.
"Even though my neck hurts I still want to play so bad," said Miyazato, who won here in Singapore in 2010. "That means a lot especially with the new golf course and everyone says it's a really nice golf course out there. I haven't seen it. I just want to play this tournament so bad. The people are so nice over here and I'm just enjoying staying in Singapore and it's just a really sad feeling right now. Hopefully, really hopefully I can play this weekend."
Pettersen escaped the worst of the crash as her vehicle was at the end of the convoy and avoided crashing into the other vehicles. But she too was still shaken by the experience of being involved in such an accident.
"We're just lucky enough that we all got away with no major injury." Pettersen said.