Rose Zhang and Annika Sorenstam finished nine holes of practice Wednesday and stopped to pose for a picture on the 18th green at Pebble Beach, a convergence of generations. Know more:
Annika Sorenstam hits to the sixth green during a practice round for the US Women’s Open Wednesday.PEBBLE BEACH, California—Rose Zhang and Annika Sorenstam finished nine holes of practice Wednesday and stopped to pose for a picture on the 18th green at Pebble Beach, a convergence of generations. Zhang was born the day after Sorenstam finished her historic week against the men at Colonial.
“It’s not a fair fight,” was the famous phrase Roger Maltbie of NBC Sports said of Woods in the 2000 US Open. And for so many years, the world’s best female golfers could have said the same as the Women’s Open rarely went to America’s best courses.It starts with Pebble Beach and what is expected to be the full experience. Three days of practice is likely to give way to blustery conditions, particularly on the weekend, adding to what already is regarded as the stiffest challenge in golf.
The USGA also said the Curtis Cup for amateurs would be going to Pine Valley in 2034, the course perennially rated among the best in amateur and once so restricted to men that Nicklaus played there during his honeymoon as his wife waited outside the entrance. After playing the back nine on Wednesday, Sorenstam decided to play the front. She even had her 12-year-old son, Will, play a shot into the seventh green, a par 3 that measures just under 100 yards for the Open.
“She has just literally won everything you can win, so the pressure is there, everybody is looking at her,” Sorenstam said. “And then to go out and win her first event on the LPGA, it just doesn’t get much better than that. I think the attention is there, well deserved. And I think she’s going to bring a lot to the game, there’s no doubt.”
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