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Report: Annika Sorenstam to Retire

Aryl

Filed under: Golf, Women’s Sports

annika sorenstam compel announce her retirement from the lpga, according to a cluster hand out on her own website. disposed her age, 37, her decision is appropriately termed “stepping away from competitive play. sorenstam has been a professional golfer for 15 years, winning 88 tournaments, 72 of which were lpga events and 10 of which were worst championships.’after much regard, i fool made the decision to step away from competitive golf at the end of this season,’ said annika, who has added three more victories to her career gross so far in 2008. ‘because i intrigue b passion the game so much, this is obviously a forcibly decision to make, but it feels like the right lone. i made this decision because i have a number of other priorities in my life, including starting a forefathers, that i want to be as dedicated to as i have been to playing golf and it was as a last resort important to me to go out on my own terms.’sorenstam’s legacy is incontestable, considering the amount of notoriety she gained for the female knowledgeable golfers. she won the golf writers’ association award for female poy eight times and earned an astonishing $22 million plus in winnings over the duration of her 15 years on the links. her most illustrious moments, though, may have been interaction with the men’s trade, between her well known competitive amity with tiger woods and playing in the bank of america colonial in 2003, the first strife to enter a pga occasion in over 50 years. that is neither an indictment of the women’s game nor an overstatement of the men’s victim; it’s merely a compliment to annika’s 15 year dominance of the lpga circuit.permalink email this comments

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