Paula Creamer became the youngest millionaire in tour history as she pushed her 2005 earnings to $1,114,650. AP
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EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (Ticker) - Michelle Wie has a little work to do to catch Paula Creamer for the title of top teenager in women's golf.

Creamer cruised home Saturday to win the $2.5 million Evian Masters, winning by a record eight shots over Wie and Lorena Ochoa.

After taking control with a 6-under-par 66 on Saturday that built a seven-stroke lead, the 18-year-old Creamer closed with a 1-under 71, turning the final round into a coronation. She finished at 15-under 273 and collected $375,000.

"Today was incredibly exciting," Creamer said. "At the beginning I was very nervous because of just knowing that I had a seven-shot lead, but it is still hard to imagine I had a seven-shot lead with the players here. They are the best players in the world."

One of those certainly is Wie, an amateur who collected nothing. The 15-year-old prodigy again turned heads with her second straight 68, hurdling a handful of big names to match her best finish on the LPGA Tour with a 7-under 281.

"After the first day she played very well," Creamer said. "That is a good thing. It shows that the leaderboard is getting younger and younger."

Asked when she would turn professional, Wie said, "I really don't know."

The Hawaiian sensation with the 300-yard drives has played a number of men's events, including this month's John Deere Classic, where she missed the cut by three strokes, and the U.S. Men's Amateur Public Links Championship, where she reached the quarterfinals in a failed bid to qualify for the Masters.

But while the willowy Wie has built her early career on entering tournaments, Creamer is winning them. She won the Sybase Classic in May, finished tied for third at the LPGA Championship and second at the Rochester LPGA Classic.

"We're all just playing our own game," Wie said. "I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best."

"Obviously, the first win is very important, but just the strength of the field here, the Evian Masters, I think the whole ensemble of everything is huge," said Creamer, now the youngest woman to win on both LPGA and European LPGA events. "This is one of the biggest purses tournaments and purses that we have. I think that means an awful lot and is very exciting."

Creamer became the youngest millionaire in tour history as she joined superstar Annika Sorenstam in the seven-digit club, pushing her 2005 earnings to $1,114,650.

Ochoa shot a 69 and also cleared the threshold. She was third here last year.

Sorenstam, who won here in 2000 and 2002 and finished second last year, was within two shots of Creamer at the midway point but shot 72-75 in her last two rounds to tumble to 3-under 285.

The dominant force on the LPGA Tour, Sorenstam is winless in her last three events after winning six of her first eight starts this year.

Wie used her father as her caddie for the final two rounds and overtook Sorenstam, Meena Lee, Karrie Webb, first-round co-leaders Carin Koch and Marisa Baena and two-time former champion Laura Davies.

Canada's Lorie Kane shot 71-282, one stroke better than a group of six that included Koch (70); Lee (70), who won last week's Canadian Open; and Helen Alfredsson (65), also a two-time former champion.

Liselotte Neumann of Sweden shot 68-284, one shot better than Sorenstam and two better than Webb (75). Among the quartet at 287 were Baena (73), who won the World Match Play Championship, and Davies (78), who won this tournament in 1995 and 1996.

Defending champion Wendy Doolan tied for 60th at 11-over 299.

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