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Golf The legend Annika Sorenstam will return to the field at the American Century Championships, and she is doing more than trying to win the celebrity golf tournament.
Sorenstam, who won 72 LPGA Tour tournaments, including 10 Majors during his great career Edgewood Taho Golf Club Next month near Taho Lake.
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Annika Sorenstam (Isaiah Wa AZ Squage/Clarkson Creative/Getty Images)
The Foundation aims to use golf to support young women from all over the world.
“My foundation has been around for about 20 years, and it is to provide play opportunities and empower and advance young women through the sport,” Sorenstam told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “Different initiatives, tournament initiatives, resources, guidance, scholarships, etc. Therefore, we have done some clinics in the area. We invited young women to participate. It is great.
“We have about 1,000 girls every year, and we have returned to the girls’ golf for about 10 million. I push the foundation wherever I went and it would be great for young women to take the club or play.”
Sorenstam said he was looking forward to playing in the tournament every year.
She was runner up with ex with ex Thl Star Jeremy Ronik in 2014 when former NFL quarterback Mark Raipian won the tournament for the second time.
Kondolija rice, left, and Annika Sorenstam (Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)
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“Every year I am excited. I try every year. These guys are difficult to beat, but this is an important factor, no doubt. This is an important aspect of summer,” Sorenstam said. “Taho is the time of the year, the tournament, the atmosphere and everything about it, the players. It’s such a cool event. So, there are family and friends. There are many reasons to like it.”
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Sorenstam said “It’s great” that some athletes who are not professional golfers are so good in the game.
“Good, you know, many of them are half my age, twice my size. They are amazing athletes. What I can say now. I used it.” “But at the beginning, I, oh, you know. But it is surprising how good they are. They play more than me. They have been beaten so far, not always straight, but many of them do so.
“In the end, this is very exciting, but to add a little stress, I always tell my husband, ‘Mike, I don’t think you can throw me to a football field or any basketball column and start shooting 3-pointers.’ I think they are amazing.
Annika Sorenstam (Special to Tom R. Smedes / RGJ / USA Today Network)
The American Century Championships are held on July 9-13.
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The tournament collects money for local and national charities. The event is a 54-hall stableford format, and golfers earn points for each hole based on the score. The golf player wins the more points.
McGahan, the converer of Fox News, contributed to the report.
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