Sorenstam Is AP Female Athlete of the Year
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She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents &#151; in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States. She won a major, the most money and a remarkable 10 times in just 20 starts worldwide.
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Annika Sorenstam has moved into the outright lead on day two of Japan&#39;s Mizuno Classic after carding a six-under par 66. Sorenstam, bidding for a fourth consecutive win in the tournament, is now four strokes clear of nearest rival Chihiro Nakajima.
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Annika Sorenstam can relate to the run Tiger Woods is on. Sorenstam once won five straight starts &#151; two tournaments in 2004 and the first three in 2005. She and Nancy Lopez are the only LPGA players to put together a streak that long.
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Annika Sorenstam birdied four of the last five holes yesterday, twice with a 7-iron into greens surrounded by trouble, giving her a 6-under-par 66 and a one-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA's season-ending ADT Championship in West Palm Beach, Fla. Cristie Kerr had a 67, while Karrie Webb was among those at 68. It was the lowest ...
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Annika Sorenstam won her fifth LPGA Tour event of the year, closing with a 1-under 70 Sunday for a four-shot victory at the John Q. Hammons Classic.
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Swedish Annika Sorenstam is all smiles as she holds winner&#39;s trophy following her victory on the final round of the US $ 1million (euro 780,000) LPGA Mizuno classic at Seta golf course in Otsu western Japan, Sunday, Nov 7, 2004.
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ANNIKA Sorenstam ended the season in fitting style when she won a sudden-death playoff against American Cristie Kerr at the LPGA Tour Championship yesterday.
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Annika Sorenstam won the season-opening SBS Open for her 70th LPGA Tour title and first since September 2006, birdieing two of the last three holes Saturday for a 3-under 69 and two-stroke victory.
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WEST PALM BEACH, United States : Annika Sorenstam captured her eighth title of the year here Sunday, beating Cristie Kerr in a playoff for the season-ending LPGA ADT Championship with a bogey on the first playoff hole.
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Annika Sorenstam matched the LPGA Tour record for consecutive victories in a tournament Sunday, winning the Mizuno Classic for the fourth straight season to lock up her seventh player of the year title.
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SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina  - The elite of women's golf is lining up to dethrone Annika Sorenstam, no longer the sport's dominant figure, at the U.S. Open starting on Thursday at Pine Needles.
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Annika Sorenstam competed against the men last year at Colonial. Now she is being compared with them.
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Stacy Prammanasudh shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead during the suspended first round of the MasterCard Classic, while two-time defending champion Annika Sorenstam had a 69 in her season debut.
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Lorena Ochoa has spent her life scaling great heights, as a 12-year-old climbing Pico de Orizaba in her native Mexico, and in her five years on the LPGA Tour toppling Annika Sorenstam as the No. 1 player.
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SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina  - Eighteen-year-old Brazilian Angela Park held on to her overnight lead but defending champion Annika Sorenstam made her presence felt with a 70 as the storm-hit first round of the U.S. Women's Open finally ended on Friday.
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Swedenâs Annika Sorenstam has won the LPGA Tour Championship after Cristie Kerr made an untimely bogey on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff while Australian Karrie Webb finished tied for third.
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OTSU (Japan): World number-one Annika Sorenstam shot into the history books with a solid nine-stroke victory in the Mizuno Classic yesterday, becoming only the second player to win an LPGA event four years in a row.