Annika Sorenstam News

She's 48, tees it up with kids half her age, hopes to play another decade but knows to do it she must find five more minutes of concentration on the course.

As executive director of the 3M Championship golf tournament, Hollis Cavner can change and tweak the Champions Tour event.

Three of the top women's golfers in history are scheduled to play in an event that's part of the Champions Tour top at the TPC Twins Cities July 29-Aug. 4. Annika Sorenstam, Nancy Lopez and Pat Bradley will comprise the first women's team in the Greats of Golf Challenge associated with the event.

Rather than fret about the eight fairways missed, and the three-shot lead she relinquished on the back nine Sunday, Park refocused before the first sudden-death playoff hole.

Morgan Pressel slogged through rain and muck to take the lead Saturday after two rounds in the LPGA Championship.

The third hole on the Duke's Course at Woborn Golf Club outside London is a relatively straightforward, downhill 134-yard par-3.

When last we saw Yani Tseng in Rochester, she was limping out of town last June trying to decipher how she finished tied for 59th in a feeble defense of her 2011 Wegmans LPGA Championship.

The whitecaps on Reed's Bay served as the backdrop for the drama that played out Sunday on the windswept putting surfaces and fescue-lined fairways on the Bay course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club.

Ten-times Major winner and Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam has been selected as the honouree of next year's Memorial tournament, at 42 the youngest ever to receive the accolade.

Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder, who was forced to miss the team's playoff loss to the Packers last season in Green Bay because of a deeply bruised throwing triceps, was throwing well and with plenty of velocity in team drills last week at Winter Park.

World Golf Hall of Fame member Annika Sorenstam will again help kick off the Reno-Tahoe Open by hosting Women's Day at Montreux Golf & Country Club on July 28, the Sunday before tournament week.

Heather Bowie Young made five straight birdies while jumping from one side of the golf course to the other.

The Associated PressAnnika Sorenstam became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in 58 years when she competed in the Bank of America Colonial 10 years ago in Fort Worth.

The bubbly freshman from Levittown, N.Y., also showed her new teammates how to enjoy their time on the course and ignore the pressure.

In this week's edition we remember the historic statement Annika Sorenstam made 10 years ago at Colonial, the metaphorical comments made by a handful of PGA Tour players against the ban on anchoring and the insensitive remarks of Sergio Garcia and European Tour chief George O'Grady. Conviction .

Heather Bowie Young made five straight birdies while jumping from one side of the golf course to the other.

Ten years ago: Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.

On May 22, 1913, the American Cancer Society was founded in New York by a group of doctors and business leaders under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

The history books show Annika Sorenstam made headlines and drew record crowds to the 2003 Colonial tournament because she became the first female golfer in 58 years to compete against male peers in a PGA Tour event.

Ten years ago, as I stood near the 10th tee at Colonial Country Club waiting for Annika Sorenstam to hit her first shot in the Bank of America Colonial, an incredible jolt surged through my body.