LPGA TOUR Sorenstam breezes to three-shot win



She made bogeys on her last two holes to make things close.
AURORA, Ill. (AP) -- Annika Sorenstam couldn't sleep the first couple of nights after she got back from the Colonial, memories of her historic trip replaying constantly in her head.
She didn't practice much, either, drained by the experience of being the first woman in 58 years to play on the PGA Tour.
So a letdown would have been understandable when she returned to the LPGA Tour. Maybe even expected.
Instead she dominated the Kellogg-Keebler Classic as if she'd just come back from vacation. She breezed to a three-stroke victory Sunday, with bogeys on the last two holes making the finish look much closer than it was.
"Obviously, I'm very, very pleased," she said. "It's been a great week. To come back and perform the way I did was pretty much incredible with everything going on last week."
Second win of season
Sorenstam shot a 1-under 71 Sunday, finishing at 17-under 199 for her second LPGA Tour victory of the season and 44th overall.
She flirted with another 59 in the opening round, played all three rounds under par and led the event wire-to-wire. And after birdies on her first two holes, she looked as if she might shatter the tour record for relation to par in a 54-hole event, which she matched here last year at 21-under 195.
"She was very composed," said runner-up Mhairi McKay, who lost any chance to catch Sorenstam with a triple-bogey on the fourth hole.
Sorenstam went to 19-under with a beautiful flip shot out of the rough that got to 5 five feet of the hole.
But she ran into trouble after that. She misread her birdie putt on the 16th, then three-putted for a bogey on the par-3 17th. On the 18th, she pushed her tee shot into fescue off the left side of the fairway, and had to take a stroke for an unplayable lie.
Hitting from a bunker, she got back out into the fairway only to misfire on her next shot and land in a greenside bunker. She blasted out and it looked as if it might drop into the cup before stopping about 8 feet short of the hole.
After she rolled it in for a bogey, she skipped backward a couple of steps with a big grin on her face, then turned and tossed her ball into the roaring crowd.
"It was a little more adventurous than I wanted it to be," she said. "But obviously I'm glad I made the putt and finished on a high note."