A familiar shadow falls across the LPGA more than a year since she left competition.
Annika
Sorenstam’s influence will continue to be felt with the tour’s second
season without her beginning Thursday at the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand
event at Siam Country Club’s Old Course in Chonburi.
Sorenstam, 40, will continue to impose her ambition on the tour without hitting a single shot. Anna
Nordqvist and Pernilla Lindberg will play under the Annika Team banner.
While there’s no financial or management connection uniting these
up-and-coming Swedish players to Sorenstam, there’s emotional and
spiritual bonds to the LPGA Hall of Famer. The duo is the beginning of
what Sorenstam hopes will become a larger alliance of young Swedish
professionals.
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