Annika Sörenstam biography
Annika Sörenstam, (born October 9, 1970, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish-born American golfer who was one of the vital profitable golfers within the historical past of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
Sörenstam started enjoying golf at age 12, and he or she was a member of the Swedish nationwide workforce from 1987 to 1992. She attended the University of Arizona, the place she gained a National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1991 and earned All-America honours in 1991 and 1992. In 1992 she gained the world novice championship, completed second on the U.S. girls’s novice championship, and posted the second lowest rating amongst amateurs on the U.S. Women’s Open. Sörenstam was the European tour’s Rookie of the Year in 1993 and, with three top-10 finishes on the LPGA tour in 1994, was named that tour’s Rookie of the Year as nicely. In 1995 she posted her first LPGA tour victory on the U.S. Women’s Open and went on to win Player of the Year honours, a feat she would repeat seven further instances within the following 10 years. In 1998 Sörenstam grew to become the primary participant on the LPGA tour to complete the season with a scoring common under 70 (69.99).
Sörenstam gained eight LPGA occasions in 2001, together with her second main event, the Kraft Nabisco Championship. That 12 months she additionally grew to become the primary lady to shoot a 59 in a spherical of knowledgeable event. She gained 11 occasions in 2002—probably the most within the LPGA in almost 40 years—and in 2003 she gained the LPGA Championship and the Women’s British Open to finish the profession Grand Slam. In 2003 Sörenstam additionally grew to become the primary lady to play in a males’s Professional Golf Association event (the Bank of America Colonial Tournament in Fort Worth, Texas) since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945. Sörenstam broke her personal single-season scoring common document in 2004 when she posted a imply rating of 68.69 for the 12 months whereas ending within the prime 10 in 16 of the 18 LPGA tournaments she entered. In 2006 Sörenstam gained the U.S. Women’s Open for her tenth profession main title. Her play subsequently fell off, and he or she retired from aggressive golf in 2008. Sörenstam was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.