Legendary Swedish participant Annika Sorenstam will compete on this 12 months’s US Girls’s Open at Pebble Seashore after accepting a particular exemption into the July Main.
This may mark her second successive look within the match and seventeenth total. Nonetheless, whereas she certified for final 12 months’s occasion courtesy of her eight-shot win within the 2021 US Senior Girls’s Open, that is the primary time she has accepted an exemption to play within the match.
Sorenstam, who is among the finest feminine golfers of all time, defined the very fact the match is being performed at one of many world’s iconic programs is an enormous motivation to compete. She mentioned: “I’m extremely grateful to the USGA for the chance to play on this 12 months’s US Girls’s Open. It’s a championship that has helped to outline my profession, and to play within the first one at Pebble Seashore, which will likely be a defining second for girls’s golf, with my household by my aspect will likely be every week we always remember.”
The 52-year-old has an excellent historical past within the match and is certainly one of solely 4 gamers to win it 3 times. The primary of these victories got here in 1995, which was her maiden Main win. She then adopted that up with a profitable defence of her trophy the 12 months after earlier than claiming the title for a 3rd time at Newport Nation Membership in 2006.
Over the course of her profession, Sorenstam has the third-highest variety of LPGA Tour wins of all time with 72 and is a 10-time Main winner, though she has hardly ever been seen in aggressive motion since stepping away from the sport in 2008 to begin a household. Nonetheless, Sorenstam was again within the limelight in 2017 as captain of the 2017 European Solheim Cup staff.
Sorenstam then made a quick comeback in 2021 when she performed the Gainbridge LPGA at her dwelling course and made the lower. Then got here her look within the Girls’s US Open final 12 months, the place she didn’t make it to the ultimate two rounds at Pine Needles.
The 78th version of the Girls’s US Open is the third within the calendar and can happen between 6 and 9 July on the well-known Californian course. Past that, Pebble Seashore may also host the match in 2035, 2040 and 2048.
