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The legend of Golf Annika Sorenstam will be back on the field in the American championship of the century, and it is more than simply trying to win the Celebrity golf tournament.
Sorenstam, which won 72 LPGA tournaments, including 10 majors, during his illustrious career, will sensitize the Annika Foundation while competing at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club near Lake Tahoe next month.
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Annika Sorenstam (Isaiah Vazquez / Clarkson Creative / Getty Images)
The Foundation aims to use golf to support young women around the world.
“My foundation has been for almost 20 years, and it is a question of offering game opportunities and empowering and advancing young women through sport,” Sorenstam told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview. “Various initiatives, tournament initiatives, resources, mentoring, scholarship, etc., therefore, we made clinics in the region, inviting young girls to participate, it was great.
“We have about 1,000 girls each year, and we have returned almost $ 10 million to golf for girls. Wherever I go, I push the foundation and it was great to bring young girls to take a club or continue playing.”
Sorenstam said she was looking forward to playing in the tournament every year.
She was second with the former NHL star Jeremy Roenick in 2014 when the former quarter-rear of NFL Mark Rypsum won the tournament for the second time.
Condoleezza Rice, on the left, and Annika Sorenstam (Images Kyle Terada-Imagn)
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“Each year, I am excited. I try every year. These guys become more and more difficult to beat, but it’s a highlight, without a doubt. It’s a highlight of summer,” said Sorenstam. “Tahoe at this time of year, the tournament, the atmosphere and everything about this, the players are such a cool event. So having family and friends there, so many reasons to love it.”
Mardy Fish, Stephen Curry, Tony Romo and Vinny Del Negro were among the most recent tournament winners.
Sorenstam said “it’s incredible” how some athletes who are not professional golfers are at the game.
“Well, you know, many of them are half my age, twice my size. These are incredible athletes. What can I say now that I got used to that,” she said. “But at the beginning, I was like, whoa, you know. But it’s incredible how good they are. They play much more than me. They have struck it so far, not always straight, but many of them do it.
“In the end, it makes him very exciting, but to add some pressure, I always say to my husband, I say:” Mike, I don’t think you can throw me on a football field or any basketball field and start shooting at 3 points. “I just think they are incredible.”
Annika Sorenstam (Tom R. Smedes / Special to RGJ / USA Today Network)
The festivities of the American championship of the century take place from July 9 to 13.
The tournament will also collect funds for local and national charities. The event is a stable format of 54 holes in which golfers earn points for each hole depending on the peer score. The golfer who reaches the most points wins.
