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Annika Sorenstam
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Annika Sorenstam is the #1 female golfer in the world, winning forty-eight tournaments, including a career grand slam. Recently inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, she is the all-time LPGA money leader and has set numerous records. In the spring of 2003 she drew global acclaim for becoming the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in fifty-eight years, competing in the Bank of America Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas. A native of Sweden, she now lives in Orlando, Florida.
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Annika Sorenstam, the blonde beauty from Sweden, is one of the most successful female golfers in the game’s history. She’s won nearly 70 LPGA tournaments including ten majors and she is the all-time leading LPGA money earner with more than $20 million in the bank. Sorenstam has won eight Rolex Player of the Year awards and she has earned the Vare Trophy, given to the LPGA player with the lowest scoring average, six times, plus she holds the record for the lowest score (59) in a single round. But Annika Sorenstam is more than just a great golfer – she penned a combination autobiography and golf instructional book entitled Golf Annika’s Way and she’s started designing golf courses in America. A multi-talented athlete since she was a youngster, Sorenstam ... played tennis and soccer and she is an accomplished skier.
Annika Sorenstam dominated the Ladies Professional Golf Tour (LPGA) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She played her first LPGA events in 1993 and joined the tour in 1994, winning Rookie of the Year honors. She quickly became one of the leading players in the women's game, winning the U.S. Women's Open in 1995 (her first career victory) and again in 1996. Sorenstam was named the Rolex Player of the Year in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2002. In 2002 she won an amazing 11 tour victories, bringing her career total to 42. (She ... won 2 international tournaments that year, making 13 victories in 25 starts.) In May of 2003 she entered a men's PGA event, The Colonial -- becoming the first woman to play a PGA event since Babe Didrikson Zaharias played in the LA Open in 1945.
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In "Links 2003," Garcia and Annika Sorenstam are joined by professional golfers David Toms and the always-fashionable Jesper Parnevik. New to "Links 2003" is a Real-Time Swing feature that allows a player's mouse to become a club. Players pull back their mouse and the 3-D character goes into its backswing, then they lightly push the mouse forward and the character swings to strike the ball and begin the drive. The game's highly advanced ball physics factor in speed, tempo, direction and course conditions in real time, giving golfers more control over every shot. PC golfers can still indulge their choice of swing method, including the "classic" feel of "Links" click-swinging and the sweeping motion of PowerStroke.
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Annika Sorenstam was born on October 9, 1970, in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father, Tom, was an executive for IBM. Both her parents were athletically inclined, and participated in several sports including track and field, handball, basketball, and golf. As a youth Sorenstam most enjoyed playing tennis. She participated in her first tennis tournament at age five, but by age sixteen she began to feel burned out on the sport. She had begun playing golf at age twelve, and now turned her energies toward this sport.
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Annika Sorenstam was born on October 9, 1970, in Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden. Her parents, Tom and Gunilla, welcomed another daughter, Charlotta, two and a half years later. Thanks to their mom and dad, both girls loved sports, and like Tom and Gunilla, they were natural athletes. Everyone in the Sorenstam family skied and played tennis, volleyball, and badminton.
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