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“That Friday I was sitting in the locker room packing up my things to go home,” Creamer said in a Golf Channel interview after shattering the tournament’s 36-hole record by six shots. I’m going to come back and play this golf course well,’ ” said Creamer, who stands at 17-under 125 – the lowest 36-hole total on the LPGA this year by five strokes.

Then the 21-year-old needed a birdie on one of the two closing par-5 holes on Friday to tie the tour record for fewest shots taken through two rounds. Instead, she parred both holes, missing a short birdie putt and then saving a par on the 18th after missing the green with her approach.

“She has been incredible and her score is unbelievable,” said Eun-Hee Ji, the only player within 10 shots of her. Ji has rounds of 65 and 66 and still trails by a half dozen strokes.

Creamer had seven birdies and her only bogey of the tournament a day after she birdied nine of the final 11 holes and totaled 11 birdies. The 60 eclipsed by a shot the course record of defending champion Se Ri Pak.

Pak, trying to become the first LPGA player to win the same event six times, shot a 69 and was 12 shots behind. She went 63-68 a year ago in the first two rounds to match Kelly Robbins’ tournament record, set in 1997.

Rachel Hetherington, who won the 2002 Farr, shot a 67 and was tied for third with H.J. Choi (68) at 135.

The scary part is that Creamer used the word “terrible” to describe three shots – and still matched the lowest round of the day with her 65.

“I don’t think I hit one solid iron shot out there.”

“Gosh, if somebody would have told me par was 71 yesterday, maybe I could have shot 59.” Creamer’s 17-under score in relation to par matches the third-best ever on tour.

No, she made it by 17 shots.