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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - America's Paula Creamer, crippled with stomach pain, struggled from her hospital bed to clinch a share of third place at the LPGA's season-ending ADT Championship here on Sunday.
Creamer carded a 74 to share third with South Korean Seon Hwa Lee to finish four shots behind Shin Ji-Yai, also of South Korea, who took the one million-dollar top prize.
The 22-year-old American golden girl was hospitalized Saturday but went from the ward directly to the 6,523-yard Trump International course Sunday morning despite being diagnosed with peritonitis.
"I gave it all I had," Creamer said. "I tried as hard as I possibly could. I wasn't going to quit."
She took medicine on the 13th hole and played on two hours' sleep.
"My body is just not used to the medication that I'm on so I was incredibly shaky just because I haven't eaten that much," she said.
"I couldn't walk a line. I haven't had much potassium and sugar in my blood. I don't feel like myself right now."
Creamer, second on the money list entering the event, would have passed top-ranked Lorena Ochoa of Mexico to win the season money title had she won.
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