Annika Sorenstam to Make Her 17th Appearance at the U.S. Women’s Open

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Annika Sorenstam, the 72-time LPGA winner and 10-time major champion, has accepted a special exemption into the U.S. Women’s Open. Sorenstam will be making her 17th appearance at the championship, which will be held from July 6 to July 9. The announcement was made by the USGA on Tuesday.

“I am incredibly grateful to the USGA for the opportunity to play in this year’s U.S. Women’s Open,” Sorenstam said. “It is a championship that has helped to define my career, and to play in the first one at Pebble Beach, which will be a defining moment for women’s golf, with my family by my side will be a week we never forget.”

Sorenstam won her first professional victory at the 1995 U.S. Women’s Open in Colorado, defeating Meg Mallon by a shot. She went on to win the championship two more times, becoming one of only four golfers in its history to claim three victories.

After turning 50, Sorenstam returned to competitive golf and won the U.S. Senior Women’s Open by eight shots. That gave her an exemption into last year’s U.S. Women’s Open, where she missed the cut at Pine Needles, the site of her 1996 Women’s Open victory.

Re-reported from the story originally published in  https://www.golfdigest.com/