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Personal Information | |
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Birth | Bro, Sweden | October 9, 1970
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Nationality | Sweden, United States |
Residence | Orlando, Florida, USA |
College | University of Arizona (two years) |
Career | |
Turned Pro | 1992 |
Current tour | LPGA Tour (joined 1994) |
Other tour | LET (Life Member) |
Professional wins | 86 (LPGA Tour: 69, other individual: 16, two-woman team: 1) |
Major Championship results Wins: 10 | |
Kraft Nabisco | Won 2001, 2002, 2005 |
LPGA Championship | Won 2003, 2004, 2005 |
U.S. Women's Open | Won 1995, 1996, 2006 |
Women's British Open | Won 2003 |
Awards | |
LET Rookie of the Year | 1993 |
LPGA Rookie of the Year | 1994 |
JerringPriset Swedish Athlete of the Year | 1995, 2003 |
Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal | 1995 |
LPGA Tour Money Winner |
1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 |
LPGA Tour Player of the Year |
1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 |
LPGA Vare Trophy | 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005 |
LET Order of Merit | 1995 |
Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year | 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 |
LPGA Crowne Plaza Achievement Award | 2001, 2002 |
Patty Berg Award | 2003 |
Elected to World Golf Hall of Fame | 2003 |
Association of European Golf Writers Golf Writers' Trophy | 2003, 2005 |
Swedish Golfer of the Year | 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 |
AP Female Athlete of the Year | 2003, 2004, 2005 |
ESPY Awards Best Female Athlete | 2005, 2006 |
ESPY Awards Best Female Golfer | 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 |
Laureus World Sports Awards Sportswoman of the Year | 2004 |
October 9, 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer.
(bornShe is one of the most successful female golfers in the history of the game. To date, she has won 69 official LPGA tournaments, including ten majors.[1] Every year from 2000 to 2005 she won at least five tournaments[2] and she tops the LPGA's career money list by several million dollars, with earnings of over $20 million.[3]
Sörenstam has won eight Rolex Player of the Year awards,[4] and holds various all-time scoring records, including the lowest score in a single round (59 in the second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING tournament) and the lowest scoring average for one season (68.6969 in 2004.[5] Sörenstam has also won the Vare Trophy, given to the LPGA player with the lowest scoring average for the year, six times.[6]
Childhood and amateur career
Annika Sörenstam was born in Bro, Sweden in the Upplands-Bro Municipality outside Stockholm.[7] As a child Sörenstam played competitive tennis becoming a nationally ranked junior tennis player.[8] She was also a good skier. The coach of the Swedish national ski team suggested the family move to Northern Sweden so she could improve her skiing year round.[8] She also played football in her hometown team Bro IK.[9]
At the age of 12 she switched to golf and enjoyed a very successful amateur career. This included a win in the St Rule Trophy played at St. Andrews[10] and a runner up finish in the Swedish national mother-daughter golf tournament.[11] She was a member of the Swedish National Team from 1987 to 1992 and played at the 1990 and 1992 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, becoming World Amateur champion in 1992.[12]
Whilst waiting to start college in Sweden, Sörenstam worked as a personal assistant at the Swedish PGA[13] and played a few events on the Swedish Ladies Telia Tour.[14] In 1990/1991 she won three Telia Tour tournaments.[15][16]
Having been spotted by a coach playing in a collegiate event in Tokyo,[7] Sörenstam moved to the United States to attend college and played on the University of Arizona women's golf team. She won seven collegiate titles and became the first non-American to win the individual NCAA National Championship in 1991.[11][17] She was 1991 NCAA Co-Player of the Year (with Kelly Robbins),[2] runner-up in 1992,[2] 1992 Pac-10 champion[18] and a 1991-92 NCAA All-American.[2] In 1992 she was the runner-up to Vicki Goetze at the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship.[19] As runner up she received an invitation to play in the 1992 U.S. Women's Open, where she finished tied for 63rd.
She became a professional golfer in 1992. Having missed getting her LPGA Tour card at the 1992 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament by one shot,[7] she began her professional career playing on the Ladies European Tour or LET (formerly known as WPGET).
Professional career
After turning professional, Sörenstam was invited to play in three LPGA tournaments early in 1993, finishing T38th, 4th, and T9th earning more than $47,000. She finished second four times on the LET tour and was named 1993 Ladies European Tour Rookie of the Year.[20] She earned non-exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 1994 season by tying for 28th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.[7]
Sörenstam began 1994 with her first win as a professional. She won the Holden Australian Open Championship on the ALPG Tour.[21] On the LPGA tour Sörenstam was named LPGA Rookie of the Year[20] and had three top-10 finishes, including a tie for second at the Women's British Open. She made her debut in the 1994 Solheim Cup.[22]
In 1995, she won her first LPGA Tour title at the U.S. Women's Open[7] on her way to finishing top of the Money List.[23] She was the first non-American winner of the Vare Trophy.[6] She became only the second player to be Rolex Player of the Year and Vare Trophy winner the year after being Rolex Rookie of the Year.[2] She had two wins on the Ladies European Tour to lead the 1995 LET Order of Merit.[20] This made her the first player to top both the European and LPGA Tour money lists in the same year.[24] She also won the 1995 Australian Ladies Masters.[25] Her success worldwide meant she won the Jerringpriset award[26] in Sweden, the country’s most prestigious award in sports as well as being awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.[27]
1996 saw Sörenstam win her home LET tournament, the Trygg Hansa Ladies' Open in Sweden[28] and three LPGA tournaments including the U.S. Women's Open. In defending her title she became the first non-American to win back to back U.S. Women's Open titles.[7] She passed the $1 million mark in LPGA career earnings and won her second consecutive Vare Trophy.
In 1997 she won 6 LPGA titles regaining the Money List and Player of the Year titles. Internationally she won once on the JLPGA plus she defended her home LET title at the renamed Compaq Open. 1998 saw her became the first player in LPGA history to finish a season with a sub-70 scoring average of 69.99 en route to retaining the Player of the Year and Money List titles.[6] She also won the LET Swedish tour stop for the third time running. During 1999 she recorded her first LPGA career hole-in-one and crossed the $4 million mark in LPGA career earnings. She had won 18 LPGA tournaments in the 1990s more than any other Tour player.[2]
In 2000 Sörenstam qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame when she won the Welch's/Circle K Championship,[29] but she was not eligible for induction until finishing her tenth year on the LPGA tour, which she did in October 2003.[30] Sörenstam was the first international player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame through the LPGA criteria.[31][30][32]
In 2001, she recorded eight LPGA wins, set or tied a total of 30 LPGA records, including a 59 (-13) during the second round of the Standard Register PING.[33] She became the first LPGA player to cross the $2 million mark in single-season earnings.[23] She won her fourth Player of the Year and Money List titles and regained the Vare Trophy.
In 2002, Sörenstam joined Mickey Wright as the only players to win 11 LPGA tournaments in one season and earned her fifth Player of the Year title and fifth Vare Trophy. She set or tied a total of 20 LPGA records including the LPGA record for largest margin of victory in a 54-hole event (11 strokes). She successfully defended the Kraft Nabisco Championship[34] for her fourth major. There were also victories in the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia[35] and Compaq Open in Sweden on the Ladies European Tour,[36] giving her 13 wins in 25 starts worldwide.
Amid notable controversy, Sörenstam was invited to play in The Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas in May of 2003, making her the first woman to play in a PGA event since Babe Zaharias, who qualified for the 1945 Los Angeles Open. Cheered through each hole, she shot five over par, tying for 96th out of the 111 who finished the first two rounds, not enough to make the cut.[37]
2003 also saw Sörenstam win the LPGA Championship and the Weetabix Women's British Open[38] to become only the sixth player in LPGA history to complete the LPGA Career Grand Slam.[39] She had five other victories worldwide and set or tied a total of 22 LPGA records. This earned her a sixth Rolex Player of the Year award.
Also in 2003, she competed against Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson and Mark O'Meara in the Skins Game, finishing second with five skins worth $225,000; Sörenstam holed a 39-yard bunker shot on the ninth hole for eagle, only the eighth eagle in The Skins Game history.[40] She was awarded her second Jerringpriset award in Sweden[41] plus the 2003 Golf Writers’ Trophy by the Association of Golf Writers.[42]
In 2004, she earned her seventh LPGA Player of the Year award to tie Kathy Whitworth for the most in LPGA history. On the LPGA she posted 16 top-10 finishes in 18 starts, including eight wins becoming the first player to reach $15 million in LPGA career earnings. She took her own LPGA single-season scoring average record to 68.69696[5] but played too few rounds to win the Vare Trophy. She had two additional international wins. The United States Sports Academy named her 2004 Female Athlete of the Year.[43]
2005 was a landmark year in Sörenstam's career. She finished first on the ADT Official Money List for the eighth time in her career to tie Whitworth for the most in LPGA history. She became the only player in LPGA history to win the Rolex Player of the Year honors (8th time, an LPGA record), the Vare Trophy (her sixth) and the ADT Official Money List title five times. She joined Mickey Wright as the only players in LPGA history to win 10 or more events in two seasons. Sörenstam won 10 out of 20 tournaments entered.
She also became the first player in LPGA history to win the same major three consecutive years at the McDonalds's LPGA Championship.[44] She won her fifth consecutive Mizuno Classic title, making her the first golfer in LPGA or PGA history to win the same event five consecutive years.[45] This all helped her to cross the $18 million mark in LPGA career earnings. She also hosted her first tournament, the Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika on the Ladies European Tour and won her own trophy.[46]
At the start of 2006 she won the Women's World Cup of Golf for Sweden in partnership with Liselotte Neumann.[47] She opened her 2006 LPGA season with a successful defense of her title in the MasterCard Classic, then went winless in eight starts, causing some to talk of a slump.[48] She emerged to win the U.S. Women's Open in an 18-hole playoff[49] for her 10th major championship title, tying her for third among women with the most major championship wins of all time.[1] She totalled 3 wins on the LPGA and two more on the Ladies European Tour. She won the inaugural Dubai Ladies Masters[50] and successfully defended the tournament she hosts in Sweden which was held in her home town at the course where she learnt to play.[51]
Other awards and honors
Sorenstam has been named Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year in 1995, 1997 and 2000-05.[52][53][54]
She won the "World Sportswoman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2004[55] as well as the 2004 Sportswoman of the Year Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation.[31]
In 2005 she became the first woman to win the Golf Writers’ Trophy twice in the 55-year history of European golf’s most prestigious award.[56]
Sörenstam received the 2005 ESPY Award as Best Female Athlete[57] having previously won six outstanding women’s golf performer of the Year ESPY awards.(1996, 1998-99, 2002-04).[58][59][60] She was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year from 2003-2005.[61][62][63]
She has topped the Women's World Golf Rankings since they were introduced in February 2006.[64]
She has been a member of seven European Solheim Cup teams: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2005[65][66] and is he event's all-time leading points earner with 21 points.[20] She has been Captain of the Interntional Team in the Lexus Cup since its inception.[67][68]
She was ranked 91st place on Forbes 2006 Celebrity 100 list, and 89th place on the 2005 list.[69] Annika and Charlotta Sörenstam are the only two sisters to have both won $1 million on the LPGA.[70]
Off-course activities
Before the 2003 season Sörenstam took the opportunity to improve her culinary skills by working eight hour shifts in the kitchens of the Lake Nona Country Club.[71] During 2003 her first course design project was completed at Mission Hills Golf Club in China.[72][73]
In 2004, she released a combination autobiography and golf instructional book, Golf Annika's Way.[74]
Her second golf course design project was officially opened in January 2006 in South Africa.[75] and just before winning her third U.S. Women's Open in 2006, Sörenstam was granted U.S. citizenship. She retains her Swedish citizenship[76]
In 2006 Sorenstam also began construction on the Annika Academy at Ginn Reunion Resort where her longtime coach Henri Reis will serve as head instructor, and her personal trainer Kai Fusser will focus on overall fitness training geared toward improving students' golf skills.[77]
In 2007 she will host an event on the LPGA Tour, the Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika[78] at RiverTowne Country Club in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She also announced that as part of her business partnership with The Ginn Companies, she will be redesigning RiverTowne's sister course, Patriots Point Links, also in Mount Pleasant. This will be her first course design in the United States.[79]
Professional wins (86)
LPGA Tour (69)
- 1995 (3) U.S. Women's Open, GHP Classic, Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
- 1996 (3) U.S. Women's Open, CoreStates Betsy King Classic, Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
- 1997 (6) Chrysler Tournament of Champions, Cup Noodles Hawaiian Open, Longs Drugs Challenge, Michelob Light Classic, CoreStates Betsy King Classic, ITT LPGA Tour Championship,
- 1998 (4) Michelob Light Classic, ShopRite Classic, JAL Big Apple Classic, Safeco Classic
- 1999 (2) Michelob Light Classic, New Albany Golf Classic
- 2000 (5) Welch's/Circle K Championship, Firstar Classic, Evian Masters, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic
- 2001 (8) Welch's/Circle K Championship, Standard Register PING, Kraft Nabisco Championship, The Office Depot, Chick-fil-A Championship, BMO Canadian Women's Open, Cisco World Match Play Championship, Mizuno Classic
- 2002 (11) LPGA Takefuji Classic, Kraft Nabisco Championship, Electrolux Championship, Kellogg's Classic, Evian Masters, ShopRite Classic, Williams Championship, Safeway Classic, Samsung World Championship, Mizuno Classic, ADT Championship
- 2003 (6) The Office Depot, Kellogg Classic, LPGA Championship, Women's British Open, Safeway Classic, Mizuno Classic
- 2004 (8) Safeway International, The Office Depot, LPGA Corning Classic, LPGA Championship, John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic, Samsung World Championship, Mizuno Classic, ADT Championship
- 2005 (10) MasterCard Classic, Safeway International, Kraft Nabisco Championship, Chick-fil-A Championship, ShopRite Classic, LPGA Championship, John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic, Samsung World Championship, Mizuno Classic, ADT Championship
- 2006 (3) MasterCard Classic, U.S. Women's Open, State Farm Classic
LPGA Majors are shown in bold.
Other (17)
- 1994 (1) Holden Australian Open Championship (ALPG Tour)
- 1995 (3) Australian Ladies Masters (ALPG Tour), OVB Damen Open (Ladies European Tour (LET)), Hennessy Cup (LET)
- 1996 (1) Trygg-Hansa Ladies' Open (LET)
- 1997 (1) Compaq Open (LET), Hisako Higuchi Kibun Classic (LPGA of Japan Tour)
- 1998 (1) Compaq Open (LET)
- 2002 (2) ANZ Ladies Masters (co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour and LET), Compaq Open (LET)
- 2003 (1) Nichirei Cup (LPGA of Japan Tour)
- 2004 (2) ANZ Ladies Masters (co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour and LET), HP Open (LET)
- 2005 (1) Scandinavian TPC (LET)
- 2006 (3) Women's World Cup of Golf (team event with Liselotte Neumann; endorsed by all the main women's tours, but not an official money event), SAS Scandinavian TPC (LET), Dubai Ladies Masters (LET)
In addition to the 12 Ladies European Tour events listed above, Sörenstam's wins in the Evian Masters in 2000 and 2002 and the Women's British Open in 2003 also count as European Tour wins as the events are co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour, giving her 15 wins on the Ladies European Tour in total.
She is usually credited with 15 international victories as the 1994 ALPG win and the team event are not included.
Results in LPGA majors
Tournament | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
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Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | DNP | DNP | T24 | T2 | T8 | T7 | T7 | T17 |
LPGA Championship | DNP | DNP | DNP | 10 | T14 | 3 | T30 | T16 | T12 |
U.S. Women's Open | T64 | DNP | DNP | 1 | 1 | CUT | T41 | CUT | T9 |
du Maurier Classic | DNP | DNP | T22 | T45 | T6 | CUT | 2 | DNP | 3 |
Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
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Kraft Nabisco Championship | 1 | 1 | 2 | T13 | 1 | T6 | T31 |
LPGA Championship | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | T9 | |
U.S. Women's Open | T16 | 2 | 4 | 2 | T23 | 1 | |
Women's British Open ^ | T32 | CUT | 1 | 13 | T5 | T31 |
^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
LPGA Tour career summary
Year | Majors | Other wins | LPGA wins | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Average |
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1994 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 127,451 | 39 | 71.90 |
1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 666,533 | 1 | 71.00 |
1996 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 808,311 | 3 | 70.47 |
1997 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1,236,789 | 1 | 70.04 |
1998 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1,092,748 | 1 | 69.99 |
1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 863,816 | 4 | 70.40 |
2000 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1,404,948 | 2 | 70.47 |
2001 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2,105,868 | 1 | 69.42 |
2002 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 2,863,904 | 1 | 68.70 |
2003 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2,029,506 | 1 | 69.02 |
2004 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2,544,707 | 1 | 68.70 |
2005 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2,588,240 | 1 | 69.33 |
2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1,971,741 | 3 | 69.82 |
2007* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158,371 | 7 | 71.18 |
Solheim Cup Record
Year | Total Matches | Total W-L-H | Singles W-L-H | 4somes W-L-H | 4balls W-L-H | Points Won | Points % |
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Career | 32 | 20-9-3 | 4-2-1 | 10-2-1 | 6-5-1 | 21.5 | 67.19% |
1994 | 3 | 1-2-0 | 0-1-0 lost to T.Green | 1-0-0 won w/C.Nilsmark 1up | 0-1-0 lost w/C. Nilsmark 6&5 | 1 | 33.33% |
1996 | 5 | 3-0-2 | 1-0-0 def. P. Bradley 2&1 | 1-0-1 halved w/C. Nilsmark, won w/C. Nilsmark 1 up | 1-0-1 won w/K. Marshall 1up, halved w/T. Johnson | 4 | 80% |
1998 | 5 | 3-2-0 | 1-0-0 def. D. Andrews 2&1 | 1-1-0 won w/C. Matthew 3&2, lost w/C. Matthew 3&2 | 1-1-0 lost w/C. Nilsmark 2 up, won w/C. Nilsmark 5&3 | 3 | 60% |
2000 | 4 | 2-2-0 | 0-1-0 lost to J. Inkster,5&4 | 2-0-0 won w/ J. Moodie 1 up, won w/ J. Moodie 1 up | 0-1-0 lost w/ J. Moodie 2&1 | 2 | 50% |
2002 | 5 | 3-1-1 | 0-0-1 halved w/W. Ward | 2-0-0 won w/C Koch 3&2, won w/C. Koch, 4&3 | 1-1-0 lost w/M. Hjorth 2&1, won w/C. Koch 4&3 | 3.5 | 70% |
2003 | 5 | 4-1-0 | 1-0-0 def. A. Stanford 3&2 | 2-0-0 won w/S. Pettersen 4&3, won w/C. Koch 3&2 | 1-1-0 lost w/C. Koch 1 down, won w/S. Pettersen 1 up | 4 | 80% |
2005 | 5 | 4-1-0 | 1-0-0 def B. Daniel 4&3 | 1-1-0 won w/S. Pettersen 1up, lost w/C. Matthew 2 up | 2-0-0 won w/C. Matthew 2&1, won w/L. Davies 4&2 | 4 | 80% |
See also
- Golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
- Golfers with most LPGA major championship wins
- List of Swedish sportspeople
- LPGA
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- ^ a b c "Vare Trophy Winners". LPGA. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
- ^ a b c d e f Annika Sorenstam with the editors of GOLF MAGAZINE: Golf Annika's Way, Gotham Books, 2004, ISBN 1-59240-076-0
- ^ a b "The Real Annika". Golf for Women magazine. 2003. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
- ^ Claes Lind with Annika Sörenstam, Våga bli bäst or Dare to be the Best, Sportförlaget i Europa AB, 2003, ISBN 9-18854-156-8]
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- ^ "Annika Sörenstam 1991". Golfdata Sweden. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
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- ^ "1994 Holden Women's Australian Open Golf Championship". ALPG. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
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- ^ "Golf Tour For Women Tees Off With Hope". International Herald Tribune. 1996-05-02. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
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- ^ "Sorenstam deserves Hall pass". Sports Illustrated. 2000-03-13. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ^ a b "It's official; Annika's in the Hall of Fame". Golfonline. 2003-10-10. Retrieved 2007-03-08. Cite error: The named reference "HOF2" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b "Womens Sports Foundation". Womens Sports Foundation. 2004-10-18. Retrieved 2007-03-08. Cite error: The named reference "WSF" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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- ^ "News and Tours". GolfWorld Magazine. Retrieved 2007-03-16.
- ^ "Annika Sörenstam announces golf academy to open at Reunion Resort & Club". PGA. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
- ^ "Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika Sorenstam to debut in 2007". LPGA. 2004-10-05. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
- ^ "Sorenstam hired to redesign Patriots Point Links course in Charleston". PGA. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
External links
- LPGA biography page
- LET biography page
- The ANNIKA Academy at Ginn Reunion Resort
- Annika Sörenstam at Golf Stars Online Links to feature articles, interviews, her career statistics etc.