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Golf fable Annika Sorenstam volition beryllium backmost successful the tract astatine the American Century Championship, and she’s doing much than conscionable trying to triumph the personage play tournament.
Sorenstam, who won 72 LPGA Tour tournaments, including 10 majors, during her illustrious career, volition rise consciousness for the Annika Foundation portion competing astatine Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club adjacent Lake Tahoe adjacent month.
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Annika Sorenstam (Isaiah Vazquez/Clarkson Creative/Getty Images)
The instauration aims to usage play to enactment young women crossed the globe.
"My instauration has been astir astir 20 years, and it is each astir providing playing opportunities and empower and beforehand young women done the sport," Sorenstam told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "Different initiatives, tourney initiatives, resources, mentorship, scholarship, etc., so, we person done immoderate clinics successful the area, invitation young girls to participate, it has been great.
"We person astir 1,000 girls each year, and we person fixed backmost astir $10 cardinal to girls’ golf. Wherever I go, I propulsion the instauration and it has been large to get young girls to prime up a nine oregon proceed to play."
Sorenstam said she looks guardant to playing successful the tourney each year.
She was the runner-up with erstwhile NHL prima Jeremy Roenick successful 2014 erstwhile erstwhile NFL backmost Mark Rypien won the tourney for the 2nd time.
Condoleezza Rice, left, and Annika Sorenstam (Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)
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"Every twelvemonth I americium excited. I effort each year. These guys get harder and harder to beat, but it is simply a highlight, nary doubt. It is simply a item of the summer," Sorenstam said. "Tahoe that clip of year, the tournament, the ambiance and everything astir it, the players, it is specified a chill event. So, having household and friends there, truthful galore reasons to similar it."
Mardy Fish, Stephen Curry, Tony Romo and Vinny Del Negro person been immoderate of the astir caller winners of the tournament.
Sorenstam said "it’s amazing" however bully immoderate of the athletes who aren’t nonrecreational golfers are astatine the game.
"Well, you know, galore of them are fractional my age, doubly my size. They are astonishing athletes. What tin I accidental present that I person gotten utilized to it," she said. "But successful the beginning, I was like, whoa, you know. But it is astonishing however bully they are. They play a batch much than I do. They deed it truthful far, not ever straight, but galore of them do.
"In the end, it makes it precise exciting, but to adhd immoderate pressure, I ever archer my husband, I say, ‘Mike, I don’t deliberation you tin propulsion maine connected a shot tract oregon immoderate hoops tribunal and commencement shooting 3-pointers.’ I conscionable deliberation they are amazing."
Annika Sorenstam (Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ / USA TODAY NETWORK)
The American Century Championship festivities instrumentality spot July 9-13.
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The tourney volition besides rise wealth for section and nationalist charities. The lawsuit is simply a 54-hole Stableford format successful which golfers gain points for each spread based connected the people to par. The golfer who achieves the astir points wins.
Fox News' Connor McGahan contributed to this report.
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