Blog: Local Knowledge

Alfredsson in Good Humor After 63

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France -- Tournament golf would be a lot more interesting if Helen Alfredsson contended every week. While the mercurial Swede is not exactly everyone's cup of tea, she is funny, clever and speaks her...

Published Jul. 25, 2008

Keywords LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

Blog: Local Knowledge

LPGA Event Teams with Celebs in Online Auction

The LPGA State Farm Classic and the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation have teamed up to raise money for children's charities through an online auction with part of the proceeds going to Golf Fore Africa,...

Published Jul. 08, 2008

Keywords LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

Blog: Local Knowledge

Let's Be Clear: Wright Won Four Straight Majors

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. -- In all the talk about the wealth of talent on the LPGA right now there may be no player who gets short-changed more than Mickey Wright. Her 82 victories are second...

Published May. 30, 2008

Keywords LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

Magazine

Dan Jenkins: Why the ladies have it over the old guys

Columns

Published Jun. 26, 2007

Keywords Dan Jenkins | LPGA Tour

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What do golf daddies and Confucius have in common?

Each has contributed to the Koreans' growing influence on the LPGA, according to the Samsung Economic Research Institute. "First and foremost, fathers played a pivotal role by encouraging their daughters to start golf at an...

By John Strege

Published Jul. 30, 2009

Keywords Korea | Korean golf | LPGA Tour

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More than golf at the ADT

If your favorite players failed to make the 36-hole cut at the ADT Championship and both Annika and Lorena were part of that group, there's still lots to do at Trump International. Before you even...

Published Nov. 22, 2008

Keywords LPGA | LPGA Tour | Topsy Siderowf

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Lessons From LPGA's 'Rwanda Six'

SCOTTSDALE -- Most of the "Rwanda Six"--the group of LPGA pros who traveled to the tiny African nation on a humanitarian mission involving AIDS orphans--had a reunion Monday at Desert Highland Golf Club in a...

Published Mar. 25, 2008

Keywords LPGA | LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

Blog: Golf Digest Woman

Olympics = Enormous Opportunity For LPGA

The IOC's August 13 recommendation to admit golf as one of two new sports for the 2016 Olympic Games will completely change the global golf landscape. There's no doubt about it: once golf becomes an...

By Stina Sternberg

Published Aug. 13, 2009

Keywords IOC | LPGA Tour | Olympic Games | Suzanne Pettersen

Magazine

Audio Slideshow: Annika's Career Highlights

Annika Sorenstam's greatest achievements in golf with narration by Golf World Executive Editor Ron Sirak

Published Nov. 13, 2008

Keywords Annika Sorenstam | Career Highlights | players | LPGA Tour

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Asian Swing Good To Annika

Annika Sorenstam, who will play her last LPGA event before retirement at the ADT Championship later this month and last overall event at the Ladies European Tour tournament in Dubai in December, has had a...

Published Nov. 02, 2008

Keywords Annika Sorenstam | LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

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Sorenstam's Busy Summer

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France -- If you want to understand why Annika Sorenstam is walking away from competitive golf at the end of the year when she will be only 38 years old and still one of...

Published Jul. 25, 2008

Keywords Annika Sorenstam | LPGA Tour | Ron Sirak

Jenkins: Tees And Teens

An old scribe covers an LPGA event in 2009 and discovers a whole new world

By Dan Jenkins

Published Jul. 23, 2007

Keywords dan jenkins | lpga tour | golfworld | fiction issue