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Tiger Schmiger, Give Me Annika

By Sullivan 88, Section Other Sports
Posted on Mon Jun 27 2005 at 11:10 AM EST
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You just need one word to describe Annika Sorenstam when it comes to women's golf. Untouchable.

Having just beaten the much maligned amateur Michelle Wie by three strokes to capture the McDonald's LPGA Championship, Annika need only win the final two LPGA majors to be the first golfer since Bobby Jones in 1930, to hold all four major championships in the same calendar year.

I know, I know, some of you are saying, "Who cares about women's golf?" And some of you have come to despise the fact that ESPN2 takes time out of its busy schedule to broadcasting the World Series of Poker to show girls with sticks. (no pun intended). Obviously you haven't seen Annika Sorenstam.

Since 1993, Annika has 62 career victories to go along with over $17 million in winnings. This complements the fact that in her past 37 tournaments Annika has won 18 times, including four major titles, while raking in $5,267,950. If this doesn't impress you enough, the closest person to Annika over those very 37 tournaments in terms of money is Christie Kerr at $2,721,592.

Now don't start dreaming, "Well, I could win majors' championships hitting from the women's tees..." First off, the ladies play from the tips, and secondly Annika's scoring average throughout her last 37 tournaments is 68.73 or 399 strokes under par in 134 rounds.

And for those of you keeping score, her 1.72 putts per green this season is better than 184 golfers who are ranked for putting average on the PGA website, including such notables as Phil Mickelson, David Toms, and Ernie Els. Multiple major winner and LPGA icon Laura Davies sums it up best when it comes to Annika's torrid winning streak, "I don't think it's all that good if Annika is winning every week," she says, " It makes the rest of us look like we can't play, and that's just not true."

So, fine... spend your weekend preparing for the NBA Draft or watching Roger Federer make easy work of the Wimbeldon field, all I ask is that you don't go around bad mouthing women's golf and especially not Miss Annika Sorenstam.