Uses Callaway Golf FT-3 Driver, HX Tour Golf Ball to Win ADT Championship for Tenth Title and Sixth Title Defense of 2005
CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 21, 2005–Callaway Golf (NYSE:ELY) Staff Pro Annika Sorenstam closed out the 2005 regular season on the LPGA Tour by reaching a pinnacle rarely achieved in golf, earning her 10th win of the season at the ADT Championship. With her two-stroke victory yesterday over the three golfers who tied for second, Sorenstam again stepped into the company of the legendary Mickey Wright as one of only two golfers who have reached 10 or more wins in an LPGA season.
Sorenstam’s round of 3-under-par 69 Sunday at the difficult Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach put her at 282, six under par for the 72-hole event. The win was her 66th and placed her third on the all-time victory list behind Kathy Whitworth (88) and Wright (82). For the year, Sorenstam won half the events she entered, compiling an amazing record of 10 wins in 20 starts. At her present pace, she would catch Whitworth early in the 2008 season.
"I am still 22 wins away," said Sorenstam, who captured her sixth Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average, finishing at 69.33, fourth best in LPGA history and more than 1.5 strokes ahead of runner-up Cristie Kerr. "It seems like so much but, again, I am on my way. That’s what really pushes me — to do what nobody else has done."
As winner of the Rolex Player of the Year, the Vare Trophy and the LPGA money title with $2.6 million in earnings, Sorenstam takes the Triple Crown of women’s golf for the fifth time, an unprecedented achievement in a career that has seen many.
And Sorenstam, 35, has used Callaway Golf(R) clubs to reach all her career milestones. In her successful defense of her ADT title — the sixth successful title defense of the year for Sorenstam — she used the Big Bertha(R) Fusion(R) FT-3(TM) Driver, X-18(R) Irons, a Big Bertha Strong 4-wood and 7-wood, Callaway Golf Forged+ Wedges (48 and 54 degrees), the HX(R) Tour Golf Ball and Odyssey(R) White Hot(R) 2-Ball Blade Putter. She also wore Callaway Golf Footwear with the patented Big Bertha Spike.
Battling gusty winds and occasional showers, Sorenstam began the final round with a one-stroke lead — the 65th time in her career she has entered the final round with a lead. For the 45th time, she prevailed, holding off Liselotte Neumann, Michelle Redman and Soo-Yun Kang to give her a 69 percent success rate with the lead, another LPGA standard for excellence. For the year, she went seven-for-seven when going into the final round with the lead, running her current streak to nine straight.
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