Karrie Webb
After ending T15 on the Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational, Webb heads to Salina Nation Membership to make his LPGA Senior Championship debut. The Australian has made two cuts in three begins on the LPGA Tour this season. A member of the LPGA and the World Golf Corridor of Fame, Webb has recorded 41 wins on the LPGA Tour, essentially the most of any energetic participant.
Laura Davis
The World Golf Corridor of Famer returns to the LPGA Senior Championship after ending twenty second within the 2021 occasion. Davies has 87 profession wins in his skilled profession, together with 20 on the LPGA Tour and 4 majors. He was additionally on the inaugural Solheim Cup squad in 1990 and appeared in each Staff Europe occasion till 2011.
Julio Inkster
Inkster completed in sixth place on the 2021 LPGA Senior Championship. The LPGA and World Golf Corridor of Fame inductee has gained 4 occasions on the Legends Tour, most just lately on the 2021 Land O’Lakes Legends Basic. The seven-time champion of Grand Slam was additionally named the Girls’s Sports activities Basis Sportsperson of the 12 months in 1999.
SORENSTAM CONTINUES TO MAKE HIS MARK ON THE GAME OF GOLF
Corridor of Famer Annika Sorenstam, who most would name the best girls’s golf of all time, is enjoying on this week’s Senior LPGA Championship for the primary time. She has performed in different senior occasions, beforehand successful the 2021 US Senior Girls’s Open.
“I am excited to be right here,” Sorenstam stated. “That is my first time taking part on this occasion and I need to assist the LPGA. We admire the chance to play in an occasion.”
Sorenstam has been balancing a number of golf just lately, coming to Salina, Kansas after a T28 end eventually week’s Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational with companion, Madelene Sagstrom.
“He is been somewhat busy the final month or so,” Sorenstam laughed. “I am enjoying greater than I have been in a very long time, mixing it up somewhat bit on the LPGA Tour, enjoying right here, after which I performed superstar occasions two weeks in the past. It has been a enjoyable summer season.”
Whereas Sorenstam nonetheless has the expertise to compete on each excursions, she says she is snug along with her present state of affairs. She is grateful for the chance to get out on the sphere and compete once more.
“I feel I belong right here, extra on the Senior LPGA,” Sorenstam laughed. “Nevertheless it’s been enjoyable to come back again and play.”
The LPGA Senior Championship is understood to gamers as a solution to keep in mind. Let associates reconnect and have enjoyable whereas competing. Sorenstam says that there’s a new stage of appreciation for the sport throughout this occasion.
“It is good to see a number of gamers,” Sorenstam stated. “I do know most of us have walked away and began different issues, whether or not it is household, enterprise or only a break from the sport and now we’re again. We share a ardour for the sport and an appreciation for the sport of golf. To have the ability to do it at this stage of our life means loads.”
Since shifting away, Sorenstam has began a household along with her husband, in addition to a basis to present again to the sport she loves. Her new ardour, the ANNIKA Basis, is her approach of giving again to the sport and provoking the following era.
“I am very fortunate to be the place I’m right now,” Sorenstam stated. “My profession would not actually be the way in which it’s if it wasn’t for the organizations that assist girls’s golf and girls’s golf, so I need to assist. The ANNIKA Basis is about offering play alternatives for ladies all over the world.”
In its fourteenth 12 months, the inspiration has grown to host seven world tournaments, allow greater than 600 women to compete and contribute greater than $8 million to girls’s golf. The muse additionally awards an award every year to the perfect faculty golfer within the US. Epson Tour graduate Leona Maguire in addition to present Epson Tour participant Natalie Srinivasan are amongst previous winners.
“Hopefully it is going to be a springboard of their profession, they usually really feel like they’ve the sources and the arrogance to go forward and proceed their profession,” Sorenstam stated. “That is actually what it’s, creating alternatives for them.”
When requested what recommendation she has for ladies and younger girls enjoying video games, Sorenstam stated an important factor is to study out of your errors. That is one thing she teaches by way of her basis, telling women that her profession would not be the place it’s if she hadn’t discovered from her errors and moved on.
“I suppose that is life,” Sorenstam stated. “We study and we get well.”
Sorenstam recovers to problem for the LPGA Senior Championship title in opposition to No. 10 at 9:11 am Friday.