Annika Sorenstam News

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) _ Annika Sorenstam will have some help from Tiger Woods when she plays the Women's British Open at St. Andrews. His Old Course yardage book will be tucked into her pocket. Sorenstam, the former No. 1 who is coming back from injury, has the book Woods used when he won the British Open here in 2005. He handed it to her recently in Orlando, Fla., where they both live. ``He said, `I have ...

REUNION, Fla. (AP) _ Annika Sorenstam withdrew Thursday from the Ginn Open because of a ruptured disk in her back that will keep her from playing on the LPGA Tour for at least a month. ``I've been playing with quite a bit of pain for the past several weeks,'' Sorenstam said in a statement. ``I couldn't take it much more and decided it was time to see someone after the ...

Annika Sorenstam's off-season started sooner than she wanted. Sorenstam, the two-time defending champion of the LPGA Tour's season-ending ADT Championship, missed the cut after Friday's second round and won't be among the 16 women continuing on in the chase for the event's record US$1-million first prize. The world's No. 1 player missed an LPGA cut for only the sixth time in 250 tour starts since the start of the 1995 ...

Karrie Webb ended Annika Sorenstam's Mizuno Classic winning streak at five Sunday, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory over Kaori Higo in Japan's lone LPGA Tour event. Sorenstam shot a 70 to finish five strokes back at 9-under 207 on the Kashikojima Country Club course. The Swedish star also failed in her second attempt in a month to win an LPGA Tour event a record six times. Sorenstam began her streak in 2001 at Musashigaoka ...

Annika Sorenstam moved into contention for an LPGA Tour-record sixth straight Mizuno Classic title, shooting a 6-under 66 on Saturday to finish the second round two strokes behind leader Momoko Ueda. Coming off a six-stroke victory Sunday in the Ladies European Tour's Dubai Ladies Masters, Sorenstam had six birdies in her bogey-free round to finish at 7-under 137 on the Kashikojima Country Club course. Ueda, one of 35 Japan LPGA players in the 76-player field, was 9 under after ...

Annika Sorenstam opened her bid for an LPGA Tour record sixth straight Mizuno Classic title with a 1-under 71 on Friday, leaving the Swedish star six strokes behind first-round leader Rachel Hetherington. Coming off a six-stroke victory Sunday in the Ladies European Tour's Dubai Ladies Masters, Sorenstam birdied the par-5 13th to reach 3-under, but bogeyed the next two holes and closed with three pars on the Kashikojima Country Club ...

Even if Annika Sorenstam wanted to add an LPGA Tour event to her schedule to try to make up ground in her bid for a sixth straight LPGA Player of the Year title, her schedule won't allow it. Starting next week, she will be playing in four straight tournaments _ but only two on the LPGA Tour. Sorenstam will play in Dubai next week on the Ladies European Tour, then ...

It might be time for Annika Sorenstam to stop looking ahead at Kathy Whitworth, and start looking over her shoulder at Lorena Ochoa. The way Sorenstam had been rolling over opponents and piling up trophies, the 36-year-old Swede quickly was approaching Whitworth's 88 career victories. Sorenstam had averaged nearly nine wins a year since 2001 _ at that pace, she could have broken the record before her 40th birthday. But ...

Lorena Ochoa took a huge step toward dethroning Annika Sorenstam as the LPGA Tour player of the year, overwhelming her Sunday with a 7-under 65 that turned a three-shot deficit into a two-shot victory in the Samsung world championship. Ochoa was relentless at the start, a little lucky in the middle and solid down the stretch at Bighorn to win for the second straight week and fifth time this year, ...

The birdie putt found the heart of the cup to give Annika Sorenstam a three-shot lead at Bighorn, a course where she has never lost, and it all looked so routine. Sorenstam sure didn't feel that way. Walking off the 10th green after her 12-foot putt Saturday in the Samsung World Championship, she offered a few polite waves to the gallery, turned and privately pumped her fist two times. Going for her record sixth title in this ...

Annika Sorenstam pulled away early and had to catch up late Friday on what turned out to be a tumultuous second round for just about everyone in the Samsung world championship. When it ended as clouds began to hover over Bighorn, Sorenstam nearly holed a sand wedge on the 18th hole for a tap-in birdie that salvaged a 1-under 71 and left her atop the leaderboard with Sophie Gustafson (70) and Paula Creamer (68). They were at 6-under ...

Michelle Wie didn't exactly steal the show Thursday at the Samsung World Championship. If anything, she held it up. Starting her second year as a pro, Wie took a half-hour to play the 14th hole at Bighorn with two rulings, a whiff, an unplayable lie from a desert bush and a shot off the cement cart path just to get back to the fairway. She wound up with a quadruple-bogey ...