Sorenstam enters US Women’s Open

NEW YORK, United States: Ten-time major winner Annika Sorenstam will compete in the 77th US Women’s Open in June, the US Golf Association said Thursday.

The 51-year-old Swedish star has filed an exempt entry to play June 2-5 at Pine Needles in Souhern Pines, North Carolina, after qualifying for the event by winning last year’s US Senior Women’s Open.

Sorenstam, a 2003 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, won 72 LPGA titles, eight LPGA Player of the Year awards and six Vare Trophy awards as a season-low scorer in a career that began in 1992 and ended when she retired in 2008.

Sorenstam has won three US Women’s Opens, her most recent in 2008 at Interlachen.

She won the 1995 US Women’s Open at Broadmoor and a year later defended the title at Pine Needles.