Hall Of Famers Sörenstam, Webb To Compete Again

The last time they played in the same event, George Bush was president and TikTok was the noise made by the clock on your mantel. In fact, Annika Sörenstam and Karrie Webb barely see each other these days. Webb was at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last week watching Hannah Green with her latest Karrie Webb Scholarship recipients, while Sörenstam went from the U.S. Women’s Open to the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed (won by Linn Grant) back to Lake Tahoe where she and her family spend their summers. According to Sörenstam, the only time she and Webb get together now is at World Golf Hall of Fame functions where “we’re wearing blazers and not golf shoes and golf hats.”
But that is about to change. Next week, Sörenstam and Webb will once again tee off in the same tournament as competitors, not in some hit-and-giggle celebrity pro-am or made-for-TV special, but in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the last domestic event on the LPGA Tour schedule before everyone flies to France for the Amundi Evian Championship and the European swing...