WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — On the 13th tee of the final round, the player known for always wearing some pink needed some medicine to settle her stomach.

The medicine?

"It was called Pink Lady," Paula Creamer said. "It's this pink medicine. And I said, 'Did you do this on purpose?"'

Creamer surely played with a purpose on Sunday, just as she did all week.

Her goals were simple: Get her fifth win of the year and supplant Lorena Ochoa for the LPGA's season-long money title. She hoped not even an inflamed abdominal wall and an overnight trip to the hospital would stop her.

But in the end, the week took its toll. Creamer shot a final-round 74 Sunday at the ADT Championship, good for only a tie for third place. She finished four shots behind Ji-Yai Shin, whose 2-under 70 was good enough to beat Karrie Webb by one shot in the race for the $1 million winner's prize — the biggest on the LPGA Tour.

All eight players in Sunday's field started at even par, a nuance of the ADT's double-cut, erase-the-scores format.

"I mean, it's hard for me right now, because, yes, I feel so sick," Creamer said. "But I played well under these circumstances. And what if I was feeling great? What would have happened?"

She'll never know.

Creamer needed to win Sunday to finish atop the money list, something no American player has done since Betsy King in 1993. Instead, Ochoa, who didn't make the ADT weekend, prevailed with $2,762,660. Creamer finished in second with $1,823,992.