Annika Sorenstam was born on October 9, 1970. She was born in Sweden. Sorenstam is a renowned professional golfer. Indeed, Sorenstam has broken a significant number of records when it comes to women's professional golf. She has had a stellar career in women's professional gold during her remarkable career.

In fact, Sorenstam is now one of the most successful professional female golfers in history. Throughout her career -- thus far -- Sorenstam has won around 70 official LPGA tournaments. This actually represents a record amongst female golf professionals.

Included within the tournaments that Sorenstam wons are ten major tournaments. In fact, in every season between 2000 and 2005, Sorenstam won at least five tournaments -- consistently leading the pack amongst other female golf pros.

Through her career, Sorenstam has won over $20 million in prize money. Once again, this is yet another record when it comes to women's pro golf. In fact, Sorenstam leads the LPGA career money list over her nearest competition by several million dollars as of this time.


Sorenstam has received a number of significant of awards as the result of her efforts on the golf course. This includes having won the Rolex Player of the Year Award eight times. In addition, Sorenstam holds a number of all time scoring records when it comes to women's professional golf. For example, she has the lowest score in a single round (a designation she received in the second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING Tournament in which she scored a phenomenal 59). She also has the lowest scoring average for one season in 2004. Her scoring average that year was a remarkable 68.6969. Finally, Sorenstam has won the Vare Trophy which is given to the LPGA player with the lowest scoring average for the year. She has received this award a remarkable and unprecedented six times.