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Annika Sorenstam retiring from LPGA at end of season

Annika Sorenstam retiring from LPGA at end of season


   This story has photography  Annika Sorenstam, one of the best LPGA Tour golfers of all time, is retiring at the end of the season.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Garcia proves a point to the media, and to himself  
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Sergio Garcia could have mentioned 1.71 million reasons why it meant so much to win The Players Championship, but he is not motivated by money.
 
Annika Sorenstam retiring from LPGA at end of season  
Annika Sorenstam, one of the best LPGA Tour golfers of all time, is retiring at the end of the season.
 

 Monday, May 12, 2008

Golfer enjoys breeze, applause on TPC's famed 17th  
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Nicholas Thompson enjoyed a raucous roar Sunday at the famed 17th island hole without hitting a shot.
 
Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have designs on charting a new course in life  
Long before he famously stalked birdies and eagles, it seems Arnold Palmer also had an eye for landscapes and contours.
 
Clint Begay, brother of Notah, plays caddie role  
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- The quick smile and affable manner are familiar. So, too, the hoop earrings and Native American features.
 

 Friday, May 9, 2008

Golf Tips: Swing plane essentials  
Continuing our series on looking at the main principals of the golf swing, we now turn our attention to the swing plane, which is the tilt and direction of travel of the invisible incline plane made by the club shaft.
 
Kim has eye of the tiger and maybe more as part of Woods-inspired generation  
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Anthony Kim received the ultimate compliment even before he slipped into the blue blazer as winner Sunday of the Wachovia Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C.
 

 Thursday, May 8, 2008

PGA Tour pays homage to Jack Nicklaus  
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Jack Nicklaus became the eighth recipient of the PGA Tour's Lifetime Achievement Award during a ceremony Wednesday at The Players Championship behind the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse.
 
Mickelson getting his game in order  
It has been a discussion for as long as the PGA Tour has wanted -- and that's a long time: Is the Players a major championship?
 

 Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Push resumes for Olympic golf  
MIAMI -- After a pair of false starts in the past 15 years, it appears golf is now aligned to make an Olympic push.
 
Inside the golf gallery  
By the Numbers
 
History, drama - and water - found 17th at TPC  
NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller likes to refer to an accessible hole location as offering players a "green light special." But there's no such thing on the par-3, 137-yard 17th hole with its island green at the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Its the caution flag at best, and usually a red flag. Play away from the hole, that is.
 

 Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Zambia's Madalitso Muthiya a golf pioneer  
Every once in a while fate touches a golfer from an unlikely location and makes him a star. When it comes to golf, Zambia is about as unlikely as it gets.
 
A youthful resurgence on tour  
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods was waiting on the sixth hole at Southern Hills last year during a practice round at the PGA Championship when he walked over to the side of the tee box and asked a question no one saw coming.
 
Nicklaus tutors during Arkansas golf clinic  
ROLAND, Ark. -- A rusty Jack Nicklaus was still quite a sight for young golfers in Arkansas.
 

 Monday, May 5, 2008

Kim backs up his words with overwhelming win  
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Let's not go overboard, but, geez, Anthony Kim made his one-time braggadocio look real Sunday as he lapped the field in the Wachovia Championship.
 

 Friday, May 2, 2008

Chambers Bay golf course tree axed  
SEATTLE -- For the last three years, when April Fools Day came around, Jay Blasi got a phone call or e-mail saying the only tree at Chambers Bay, with the waters of Puget Sound serving as its picturesque backdrop, fell down.
 
Amid the PGA clones, Weekley stands out  
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The world could use more Boo Weekleys.
 

 Thursday, May 1, 2008

It takes all kinds for U.S. Open hopefuls  
Just wondering: Is Colin Montgomerie cool with 12-year-old Rico Hoey entering the U.S. Open? And what about 79-year-old Harris Moore Jr.?
 

 Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Hurt Tiger declines to give return date  
The moment quickly got lost in the glow of Tiger Woods' 13th career major trophy. But with the world's No. 1 player now sidelined after knee surgery, it's open to review.
 
Is Scott set to compete at top level of game?  
Almost too predictably, Adam Scott was asked after last week's EDS Byron Nelson Championship win if he and the rest of the young stud players on the PGA Tour have the hunger, the ferociousness to compete with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
 

 Tuesday, April 29, 2008

TV trying prime-time golf  
CHICAGO -- Crunch time is going to be on prime time for the U.S. Open.
 
From top of the trees to top of the golf world  
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- The house where Lorena Ochoa grew up overlooks the swimming pool at Guadalajara Country Club, a playground paradise for a tiny, wiry girl with big dreams.
 

 Monday, April 28, 2008

Golf Tips: The proper set-up  
Beginning golfers are always focused on improving their flawed swings. What many of them don't understand is that their swings may be doomed before they even get started because of an improper set-up.
 
Winning putt signifies redemption for Scott and Byron Nelson Championship  
IRVING, Texas -- Adam Scott had missed several easy putts while blowing a three-stroke lead. And he missed another for eagle on the 16th
 

 Friday, April 25, 2008

A slight drop in entries for the US Open  
Some of the names among the 8,390 entries for the U.S. Open might look familiar -- Norman, O'Meara, Cook and Weiskopf.
 
Woods leaves no timetable for return  
IRVINE, Calif. -- Tiger Woods is no longer on crutches since surgery last week on his left knee, but he said Friday in his monthly newsletter that he does not know when he will return.
 

 Thursday, April 24, 2008

Morgan Pressel advises sister to hold off on a pro trip  
AVENTURA, Fla. -- Morgan Pressel has no regrets about jumping to the LPGA while still in high school. However, that's not the path she's recommending for her younger sister.
 
Annika Sorenstam aims to recover lost momentum  
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- For so long, Annika Sorenstam was the tireless pacesetter on the LPGA Tour.
 

 Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Analyzing the golf scene . . .  
BY THE NUMBERS
 
 
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