SYLVANIA, Ohio -- Ordinarily, Paula Creamer has pretty decent recall after a round when it comes to retracing the shots that led to her birdies.

If you play the game of golf well enough, however, apparently you can reach an information overload.

Creamer's uncertainty could be forgiven yesterday at Highland Meadows Golf Club after her tournament-record, 11-under 60 in the opening round of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.

"Too many birdies," said Creamer, while struggling to remember what club she used on one of those approach shots. "I forget."

Creamer, nicknamed the Pink Panther, in part because of her association with this tournament's chief sponsor, rolled her trademark pink ball into the cup for birdies 11 times yesterday.

That effort -- capped by a terrific 20-foot birdie conversion on No. 9 green (her final hole) -- was one stroke lower than the previous record of 61 carded by Se Ri Pak 10 years ago.

Pak, the defending Farr champion, used that second-round score, plus a third-round 63 at Highland Meadows, on the way to the first of her record-five Farr Classic titles. Pak opened her quest for a sixth title with a 3-under 68, playing in the group ahead of Creamer, long before an early evening storm caused an overnight suspension of play with 21 golfers yet to finish. First-round play was scheduled to be resumed at 7:15 a.m. today, with the second round to follow.

"Coming in, I felt really good about my game," Creamer said. "I love this golf course and, today, it was just going in. My irons were darts.

"We had such a great gallery. The fans were phenomenal. When you're playing well, that's what you want to do, perform in front of people. It feels great. I mean, 60, geez! You'll take that anywhere."

Creamer's score was one shot from the all-time LPGA single-round record of 59 shot by Annika Sorenstam in 2001 in Phoenix, although the tour's all-time money leader's score was a 13-under round achieved on a par-72 course layout. Only three other rounds of 60 have been shot in LPGA play.

"I haven't really been able to make too many putts the past couple of weeks, and it was just kind of like it all saved up for today," Creamer said. "I think the most positive thing was that I gave myself so many opportunities. I hit 18 greens. I missed two fairways.

"I was always in the zone, and I never realized what [score] I was at until the last couple of holes, when I started to think about it a little bit."

Other tournaments

• John Deere Classic: Kenny Perry continued his best run in more than two decades on the PGA Tour, firing a 6-under 65 in the first round at Silvis, Ill., that put him one stroke off the lead. Perry is a shot behind Ken Duke and Charlie Wi.

• Scottish Open: Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els failed to break par in the first round in Luss, Scotland, while Alexander Noren and Thongchai Jaidee shared the early lead with 7-under 64s. Mickelson opened with a round of 71 and Els had a 72.

Notes

• Greg Norman's divorce from his wife of 26 years, Laura Andrassy, came with a hefty price tag -- $103 million. Norman was remarried to tennis star Chris Evert a month ago. According to court documents, Norman's divorce cost him $17.5 million from the sale of their beach-front home on Jupiter Island, Fla., a $4 million home in Palm Beach and $500,000 worth of jewelry. ... Former PGA Tour pro and Duke Sports Hall of Fame member Mike Souchak died Thursday in Belleair, Fla. He was 81.