In a weekend when NASCAR's Skoal-smacking band of cheaters held their version of the Super Bowl - only shirts and showers are optional - it's only fitting that Paula Creamer won for the fifth time in her young professional career. After all, Creamer is the anti-jet-fuel-sneaking racing lout.

This noble athlete once turned herself in for having an extra club after she got home from a tournament. When Creamer found out, there was no way anyone else ever would without her saying something.

That's honor, something that's obviously missing in the grease pit of American sports.

You can't help but be happy when this kind of athlete comes through with a win. Creamer won the LPGA's season opening tournament with the help of a gutsy 40-foot birdie putt on the second to last hole.

Now, Creamer has five more wins - three LPGA titles and two pro tournaments Ws in Japan - than Michelle Wie has in more than four years of playing pro events. You know, the star who's revolutionizing golf when she's not tripping over.

This brings me back to a time when one lone brilliant mind declared: Paula Creamer better than Michelle Wie now, will always be better than Wie. This goes back a few years when TravelGolf.com's Tim McDonald was still pimping the Winless Wonder as the great new force in golf with a gusto unlike anything even Wie author/dominatrix Jennifer Mario's done since.

It's nice to be so right.

But it's nicer to root for an athlete with Creamer's convictions. Not to mention one who can make a 40-foot putt under pressure rather than gag on 4-footers down the stretch.

Then again, maybe Wie might want to call up a NASCAR cheating ... er, crew ... chief for some advice.

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