{"id":368,"date":"2004-12-30T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/annika_named_ap_female_athlete_of_the_year\/"},"modified":"2004-12-30T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T13:00:27","slug":"annika_named_ap_female_athlete_of_the_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/lpga\/annika_named_ap_female_athlete_of_the_year","title":{"rendered":"Annika Named AP Female Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/lpga\/annika_sorenstam.jpg\" height=\"256\" width=\"212\" class=\"bordered\" alt=Annika \/>Fresh off a year in which she won ten of the twenty events she entered, Annika Sorenstam was named the Associated Press&#8217; <a href=http:\/\/www.pga.com\/news\/tours\/lpga\/sorenstam122804.cfm title=\"Annika wins AP award\" class=\"external external_icon\">Female Athlete of the Year<\/a> for the second consecutive year. Sorenstam won the award easily, earning 40 first place votes while her closest competition garnered only 15 votes. Few athletes in any sport have been as dominating as Sorenstam has. Since 2001, she has logged 38 victories including four majors, topped the money list every year, and entered <a href=\"http:\/\/stage1.wghof.com\/hof\/sorenstam.html\" title=\"World Golf Hall of Fame\" class=\"external external_icon\">The World Golf Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sorenstam&#8217;s first win of the year began at the ANZ Ladies Master&#8217;s in Australia. Sorenstam would go on to win nine more times in four different continents. Although Sorenstam did not play enough rounds to qualify for the scoring title, she did tie her record scoring average of 68.7. Yet, Sorenstam refuses to be satisfied saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m still so far away from it but I&#8217;ve come so far ahead of what I ever thought I would.&#8221; With so many accomplishments under her belt and a career that is far from over, few can argue with the AP&#8217;s choice for the female athlete of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight year, Annika Sorenstam is elected female athlete of the year by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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