Soremstam is ADT short-iron star

In her first professional contest in three years, Annika Sorenstam has won the short iron event at the ADT Skills Challenge.
In her first professional contest in three years, Annika Sorenstam has won the short iron competition at the ADT Skills Challenge at The Breakers. in Palm Beach, Florida
Sorenstam and Morgan Pressel, the first female team to participate in the Challenge, earned $161,000 for finishing fourth in the four-team event won by Zach Johnson and Jerry Kelly.
“I’m very competitive so it’s great to come out in this atmosphere again,” said Sorenstam, who had her two children and her parents with her at the event.
“We got to be more up close and personal with the players, which I love,” she added
Sorenstam, who won a record 90 international titles during her long reign as the world’s leading women’s golfer, was playing in her first professional competition since the 2008 season-ending ADT Championships following which she “stepped away” from professional golf to have a family and pursue her business interests.
Sorenstam took the short iron competition by coming within 2 feet, 11 inches from the hole.
Pressel and Nick Price, in the meantime, both holed their bunker shots before Pressel won the bunker playoff against Price when she got within 1 feet of the hole.
Johnson and Kelly secured their overall victory in the final putting event of this PGA Tour-sanctioned event, which will be televised on NBC on December 24 and 25.
Price had the best putt in the reverse scramble final – from a 16-feet out – but teammate Mark O’Meara missed his 5-foot putt. Price then missed the same 5-footer as well.
Johnson and Kelly, in the meantime each holed their 6-foot putts to trump Price and O’Meara, the defending champions, taking the top prize of $286,000 with O’Meara and Price finishing second with $185,000.
“It comes down to the reverse scramble, having to play the worst ball, (not the best as in standard scramble) playing well, and understanding the shots you have to make,” Johnson said.
“You’re both going to have to make a putt. Just like the regular tour events it comes down to the greens.”
Rocco Mediate and Nick Faldo won the long drive, mid-iron and trouble shot contests, but they lost to O’Meara and Price in the reverse scramble and finished in third to earn $168,000.
Latest
-
News
Billy Horschel accuses LIV Golf players of being ‘hypocrites and liars’
Horschel made an impassioned defence of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour ahead of the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open.
-
European Tour
Ian Poulter among three LIV Golf Series players to get Scottish Open reprieve
Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding have had their suspensions temporarily stayed.
-
News
Graeme McDowell shocked by people wishing him dead since switching to LIV Golf
The 2010 US Open champion acknowledged his switch to LIV was “about the money”.
-
PGA Tour
JT Poston completes wire-to-wire victory at John Deere Classic
England’s Callum Tarren bogeyed two of his last four holes en route to a one-under 70 as he was forced to settle for equal-sixth place.
-
European Tour
Adrian Meronk makes history for Poland as David Law celebrates Open berth
Meronk’s flying finish made him his country’s first winner on the DP World Tour.
-
News
Paul Casey becomes latest player to join LIV Golf series
He opted out of the inaugural Saudi International on the European Tour in 2019 citing concerns over the country’s human rights record.
-
European Tour
Adrian Meronk has the edge as he aims to make Tour history for Poland
A third round of 68 at Mount Juliet means a one-shot advantage on a crowded leaderboard.
-
European Tour
Shane Lowry birdies last four holes to make Irish Open cut
Jorge Campillo tops the leaderboard at the midway point.
-
European Tour
Keith Pelley hits back at 16 players threatening DP World Tour with legal action
Pelley says the sanctions against players who competed in the first LIV Golf event are ‘proportionate’ and ‘fair’.
-
PGA Tour
JT Poston takes two-shot lead at John Deere Classic
The 29-year-old also became the first player on record to open consecutive Tour events with 62 or better.