Saturday, May 17, 2008

Annika Sorenstam Mike Mcgee

Sörenstam met her first husband in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona, where David Esch worked for Ping. They were engaged at the 1995 Evian Masters, married in Lake Tahoe on January 4, 1997 and were divorced in 2005. She announced her engagement to Mike McGee, the Managing Director for the ANNIKA brand of businesses and son of former PGA Tour and Champions Tour player Jerry McGee, in August 2007 with a wedding planned for January 2009.
Annika Sörenstam was (age 37) born 9 October 1970. She is a Swedish professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful female golfers in history. Sörenstam has won 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors and 18 other tournaments internationally, and she tops the LPGA's career money list with earnings of over $22 million over $8 million ahead of her nearest rival.
The winner of a record eight Player of the Year awards, and six Vare Trophies given to the LPGA player with the lowest seasonal scoring average, she is the only female golfer to have shot a 59 in competition. She holds various all-time scoring records including the lowest season scoring average: 68.6969 in 2004.
Sörenstam made history at the Bank of America Colonial tournament in 2003 as the first woman to play in a men's PGA Tour event since 1945. Often known simply as "Annika," she achieved the fame of male golfers known in the same way: Arnie (Arnold Palmer), Jack (Nicklaus) and Tiger (Woods). Her growing off-course interests include the ANNIKA golf academy, golf course design and a charitable foundation.
Declaring herself recovered from injury and ready to return to a complete season of competitive golf in 2008, Sörenstam opened the year at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay where she captured her 70th LPGA Tour victory and first since September 2006. She won next at the Stanford International Pro-Am in April then following a week off, won again at the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, giving her three wins and over $1 million in earnings by mid-May.
On May 13, 2008, Sörenstam announced that she would retire from competitive golf at the conclusion of the 2008 season. She announced that her last scheduled tournament on the LPGA Tour will be the season-ending ADT Championship in November and that her last scheduled tournament will be the Dubai Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour in December. That night (05-13-08), she threw out the first pitch of the Washington Nationals/New York Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York. She announced her retirement in the city Clifton, NJ.