annika-sorenstam Stories - Hound Dog LPGA
A Cryptic Tweet From Annika Might Get Your Hopes Up Too Much
Annika Sorenstam made a Tweet last night that might have gotten your attention. Is she at the Academy getting ready for a comeback? Maybe she's just going to be training after having her baby. Nope. Don't get your hopes up about a short break from golf for Annika Sorenstam. Annika references...
Name Annika's Baby
Click here to have your say in the name of the baby girl that Annika Sorenstam and husband Mike McGee are expecting next month. Julia, Nicole, Jessica, Ava, Madelyn, and Anne are the specific choices being offered up at Annika's blog. There is also an option for "Other". I wonder if they would...
Maybe the LPGA Tour and PGA Tour Should Play Events Together (No, Not Really)
On ESPN's E:60 newsmagazine program, Anna Rawson was recently interviewed. She detailed her five point plan to save the LPGA Tour from its continued shrinking. Part of Rawson's plan was a call for golf tournaments played by the LPGA Tour and PGA Tour, staged on the same course. Rawson said they...
US Women's Open Ratings Down 19% From '08: How Come?
The ratings for the US Women's Open are out and they're not all that great. Sports Media Watch reports: Final round coverage of the U.S. Women's Open drew a 1.3 overnight on NBC Sunday, down 19% from a 1.6 last year, and the lowest overnight for final round coverage of the event since at least...
LPGA Announces Marsha Evans as Acting Commissioner
Golf.com's Anne Skezer is reporting that LPGA Board of Director member, Rear Admiral Marsha Evans, has been named interim commissioner of the Tour. Further, Annika Sorenstam will act as a board advisor. "Obviously, I will do everything possible to ensure that the LPGA remains the pre-eminent...
Rolex: Where’s Annika?
I wasn't going to post on this subject because I've done plenty of Rolex bashing already over the last couple of years. After receiving an e-mail about it yesterday and mulling it over, I changed my mind. In the Rolex Rankings released on January 5th, Annika Sorenstam was listed in third place...
Don't Cry For Tiger. He'll Be a Billionaire This Year.
For the past six years, Golf Digest has put together its list of the top 50 earning players on and off the course. Basically, a total compensaion money list. It's an interesting study in performance on the course and marketability off. As you might guess, Tiger Woods is tops on the list. He...
ADT Weekend Will Be Without Annika and Lorena
If you had told me that Annika Sorenstam, the best female golfer ever - in her final LPGA Tour event for a long time - and Lorena Ochoa - the defending champion, Player of the Year, and leading money winner - wouldn't be in the weekend at ALL for the ADT Championship... ...I would call you a...
Lorena Ochoa Invitational Questions
I really enjoyed catching the Lorena Ochoa event in Guadalajara this past weekend. I enjoyed Guadalajara GC, although some of the holes were kind of ridiculous. I walked away from the event with a number of questions. 1. Is Angela Stanford now considered one of the top 10 players in the...
Annika Hedging More Against Retirement
Yeah, there may be no television coverage whatsoever of the 63 player Grand Air China LPGA this week, but the AP is a beacon in a troubled time. And they're reporting editorializing that Annika is sounding more and more like a woman who isn't ready to retire...at all. "We'll see if I will come...
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