Annika Sörenstam

- Birth date: 10/9/1970
- Height: 5’6″
- Birth place: Stockholm, Sweden
- College: University of Arizona
- Years as a Professional: 15
Career Highlights
- Total Career Wins: 89

- LPGA Career Wins: 72
- Major Wins: 10
- Total career earnings – $22 million. The first player in LPGA history to cross the $20 million mark.
- Rolex Player of the Year Awards: 8 (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
- Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.
- Vare Trophy wins (for LPGA player with the lowest scoring average for the year): 6 (1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005)
- WPGET Rookie of the Year: 1993
- Rolex Rookie of the Year: 1994
- Patty Berg Award (for contributions to women’s golf): 2003
- Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year awards: 8 (1995, 1997, 2000-2005)
- European Player of the Year awards: 2 (2004, 2005)
- Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year awards: 3 (2003-2005)
- An 8-time ESPY award winner (best female athlete and best female golfer)
- Lowest score by any female in a single round: 59 (Second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING tournament.)
- Lowest scoring average for one season: 68.69 (2004)
- Named United States Golf Ambassador (2008)
Did you know?
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite movie: “Gladiator”
Favorite band: U2
Favorite TV show: CSI Miami
Favorite food: Pasta and seafood
Favorite activity outside of golf: Cooking
Ideal vacation: Snow skiing in Tahoe
Things Annika can’t live without: Cell phone, dental floss, friends and family
If Annika weren’t a golfer, she would be: An engineer or tennis instructor
Item Annika keeps stocked in her refrigerator: Soy milk
Good luck charm: I keep a horseshoe in my golf bag
Favorite book: “Every Second Counts,” the Lance Armstrong Biography
Favorite Athlete: Andre Agassi
Favorite Actors: Tom Hanks and Edward Norton
Favorite Actresses: Jodie Foster and Sharon Stone











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