Annika fondly recalls Colonial debut
Posted: Wednesday May 21, 2008 08:40AM ET
The drive was first-rate, as were so many shots Annika Sorenstam had hit -- and continues to hit. She wasn't remembering a shot that she hit yesterday during the Scotiabank Women's Charity Challenge at the Magna Golf Club, but a drive off the first tee at the PGA Tour's Colonial tournament in Fort Worth, Tex. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the day Sorenstam, then 32, became the first woman since Babe Zaharias 58 years earlier to play a PGA Tour event. She's back at Colonial today to do a corporate event for Merrill Lynch. "It'll be cool," Sorenstam said yesterday as she sat in the stands set up so guests could watch a clinic she and fellow LPGA Tour professionals Morgan Pressel and Alena Sharp of Hamilton would later conduct. "I was very nervous," said Sorenstam, a winner of 72 LPGA tournaments, including 10 majors. "There was such a build-up for four months before, and all the practice and preparation. I was under the microscope. It was a big deal."
Annika Sorenstam, AP
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If you rank golfers by percent of available money won per tournament entered, Annika has been the best golfer ever. She has also been a pure pleasure to watch, and a class act, on and off the course.
hackertoo | 05/21/08, 01:27 PM
Report Offensive CommentI was lured here by misreading the header...Annika fondle? Sorry, couldnt resist.
jackman..! | 05/21/08, 04:17 PM
Report Offensive CommentIf you rank golfers by percent of available money won per tournament entered, Annika has been the best golfer ever. She has also been a pure pleasure to watch, and a class act, on and off the course.
hackertoo | 05/21/08, 01:27 PM
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With those excellent comments - you are my hero. Don't retire Annika !!!
Kaycee6 | 05/23/08, 12:29 PM
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