Annika Sörenstam

Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish professional golfer whose 72 LPGA Tour victories and 10 major championships made her one of women’s golf’s most successful players.

2003 U.S. Women's Open: The 2003 major championship at Pumpkin Ridge won by Hilary Lunke in a three-hole playoff. Sörenstam’s appearance in the men’s PGA Tour event that year drew attention to this major she won.
Juli Inkster: An American professional golfer who won seven major championships and 31 LPGA Tour events. Inkster was a leading contemporary whose longevity framed Sörenstam’s dominance.
Women's golf: The sport of golf played by women at amateur and professional levels. Sörenstam’s achievements raised the profile of women’s professional competition.
Tiger Woods: An American professional golfer whose major victories and sustained dominance transformed men's golf. His career offers a prominent parallel in the same era of golf's global expansion.
2001 Standard Register PING: An LPGA Tour event in which Annika Sörenstam shot 59 in the second round. Her first sub-60 round in LPGA competition became a defining performance.
Karrie Webb: An Australian professional golfer who won seven major championships and more than 40 LPGA Tour events. Webb was Sörenstam’s closest rival during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
LPGA Tour: The principal professional golf tour for women, founded in 1950. Her 72 victories rank her among the tour’s most successful players.
Babe Zaharias: An American athlete and golfer who won 10 major championships in women's golf. Zaharias matches Sörenstam’s major-title total while representing an earlier era.
2001 Women's British Open: A major championship won by Annika Sörenstam at Sunningdale Golf Club. Her victory was one of the five major titles she collected in 2001.
Lorena Ochoa: A Mexican professional golfer who became the world’s top-ranked women’s golfer in 2007. Ochoa followed Sörenstam as the dominant player of the LPGA Tour.

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