Professional
2004 Highlights

• Earned her seventh Rolex Player of the Year award to tie Kathy Whitworth for the most in LPGA history.
• Posted 16 top-10 finishes in 18 starts, including eight wins- Safeway International Presented by Coca-Cola, Office Depot Championship Hosted by Amy Alcott, LPGA Corning Classic, McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola, John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic presented by Ford, Samsung World Championship, Mizuno Classic and ADT Championship.
• The McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola was her seventh major championship victory.
• Her win at the Mizuno Classic was her fourth-straight victory at the event, making her the second LPGA player to win the same LPGA event four consecutive years (joined Laura Davies, who won the Standard Register PING from 1994-97).
• Defeated Cristie Kerr in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff at the ADT Championship to become the event's first three-time champion.
• Set or tied LPGA records for fastest to $400,000, $500,000, $700,000, $800,000, $900,000 and $1 million in season earnings; set or tied LPGA records for most consecutive $400,000, $500,000, $600,000, $700,000, $800,000, $900,000 and $1 million seasons; became the first player to reach $14 million in career earnings with her win at the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola and the first player to reach $15 million in career earnings with her win at the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic presented by Ford.
• Broke the LPGA single-season scoring average record, which she set in 2002; her 68.69696 average bested her previous record by .000399.
• Won the ANZ Ladies Masters and the HP Open on the Robe di Kappa Ladies European Tour (LET) for her 11th and 12th international wins.
• Competed against Fred Couples, Tiger Woods and Adam Scott in the Merrill Lynch Skins Game.

2004 Stats (Rank)
Rds under par: 57/66 (1)	Rds in the 60s: 40/66 (1)	Birdies: 311 (15)
Eagles: 10 (8)	Greens in reg: 78.8% (1)	Driving accuracy: 77.7% (19)
Sand saves: 37% (69)	Putts per GIR: 1.75 (2)	Driving avg: 268.2 (3)

• In 2003, officially qualified for the LPGA Tour and World Golf Halls of Fame on Oct. 10 after completing the first round of the Samsung World Championship, giving her 10 years of membership on the LPGA Tour; inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Oct. 20; Sorenstam is the first international player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame through the LPGA criteria; earned her sixth Rolex Player of the Year award; won the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by AIG in a sudden-death playoff over Grace Park; captured the Weetabix Women's British Open to become only the sixth player in LPGA history to complete the LPGA Career Grand Slam; became the first woman since 1945 to compete on the PGA Tour when she teed it up at the Bank of America Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, May 22-23; shot 71-75 to miss the cut, but garnered unprecedented worldwide interest and media attention; the week after her PGA Tour appearance, shot 62 in the opening round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic and went on to win the event, setting an LPGA record for lowest first round by a winner; at the Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi, her fifth win of the season, became the sixth player in LPGA history to record back-to-back eagles (round three, holes 6 and 7); set or tied a total of 22 LPGA records; became the first player to reach $12 million in career earnings with her win at the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by AIG and the first player to reach $13 million in career earnings with her win at the Mizuno Classic; a member of the European Solheim Cup Team, where she posted a 4-1-0 record to lead the team to victory; is now tied with Laura Davies as the event's all-time points leader (17-1/2 points); won the Nichirei Cup on the LPGA of Japan Tour for her 10th international victory; competed against Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson and Mark O'Meara in The Skins Game, finishing second with five skins worth $225,000; Sorenstam holed a 39-yard bunker shot on the ninth hole for eagle, only the eighth eagle in The Skins Game history, to win $175,000 and four skins on the first day, the most money won by any player on the first day in the event's history; competed against Reteif Goosen, Jesper Parnevik and Lam Chih Bing in the Tiger Skins Event in Singapore, finishing second with five skins worth $35,000; finished second to Karrie Webb in the ConAgra LPGA Skins Game, capturing three skins worth $70,000.
• In 2002, won 11 LPGA tournaments, joining Mickey Wright as the only players to win 11 tournaments in one season (Wright won 11 times in 1964; she also won an LPGA-record 13 tournaments in 1963); earned her fifth Rolex Player of the Year title and fifth Vare Trophy; set or tied a total of 20 LPGA records; won her fourth major championship title by successfully defending the Kraft Nabisco Championship; her 11-stroke victory at the Kellogg-Keebler Classic tied the LPGA record for largest margin of victory in a 54-hole event; became the first player to cross the $9 million, $10 million and $11 million marks in career earnings; posted 11 consecutive rounds in the 60s, an LPGA record; recorded the third hole-in-one of her LPGA career during the first round of the Samsung World Championship; competed on her fifth consecutive European Solheim Cup Team and posted a 3-1-1 record; won the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia and Compaq Open in Sweden on the LET, giving her 13 wins in 25 starts worldwide.
• In 2001, recorded eight wins, six second-place finishes, and a total of 20 top-10 finishes en route to her fourth career Rolex Player of the Year Award, Vare Trophy and money title; set or tied a total of 30 LPGA records, including a 59 (-13) during the second round of the Standard Register PING; became the first LPGA player to cross the $2 million mark in single-season earnings; tied the LPGA record for wins in consecutive weeks with four-straight victories at the Welch's/Circle K Championship, Standard Register PING, Nabisco Championship and The Office Depot Hosted by Amy Alcott; came from 10 strokes behind on the final day to win The Office Depot Hosted by Amy Alcott, tying the LPGA record for largest come-from-behind victory (Mickey Wright came from 10 strokes back on the final day to win the 1964 Tall City Open); became the first LPGA player to cross the $7 million and $8 million mark in career earnings; won the State Farm LPGA Series Bonus Pool; teamed with Tiger Woods to defeat Karrie Webb and David Duval in the Lincoln Financial Group Battle at Bighorn, marking the LPGA's first-ever appearance on "prime-time" television.
• In 2000, won her first title of the season in a sudden-death playoff with Pat Hurst at the Welch's/Circle K Championship, which gave Sorenstam the requisite 27 points to qualify for the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, however, she had to wait until 2003 to fulfill the 10-year Tour membership requirement; won the Firstar LPGA Classic in conjunction with the Children's Medical Center; defeated Webb, who beat her in a sudden-death playoff at the LPGA Takefuji Classic earlier in the season, in a sudden-death playoff at the Evian Masters; won back-to-back titles at the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic and Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic; defeated Rachel Hetherington, who dealt the Swede her first career playoff loss in 1998, in a two-hole, sudden-death playoff at the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic; recorded her second LPGA career hole-in-one during the third round of the Welch's/Circle K Championship; crossed the $5 million mark in career earnings after the Standard Register PING and the $6 million mark following the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship; earned two points for the victorious European Solheim Cup Team.
• Won more LPGA tournaments than any other Tour player in the 1990s (18).
• In 1999, won the Michelob Light Classic in a three-hole, sudden-death playoff with Tina Barrett, her third consecutive victory at the event (one of eight players in LPGA history to win an same event three consecutive times); won the New Albany Golf Classic with all four rounds in the 60s; was a runner-up four times, including a one-hole playoff loss to fellow Swede Catrin Nilsmark at the Valley of the Stars Championship; recorded her first LPGA career hole-in-one during the third round of the Standard Register PING; crossed the $4 million mark in career earnings.
• In 1998, defeated Donna Andrews on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff at the Michelob Light Classic; won the ShopRite LPGA Classic and JAL Big Apple Classic with all rounds in the 60s; recorded her 16th career victory at the SAFECO Classic; suffered her first sudden-death playoff loss at the First Union Betsy King Classic to Rachel Hetherington; crossed the $3 million mark in career earnings; became the first player in LPGA history to finish a season with a sub-70 scoring average (69.99); won her third Rolex Player of the Year and third Vare Trophy; was a member of the European Solheim Cup Team; won the Compaq Open on the European Ladies Professional Golfers Association Tour.
• In 1997, captured six titles - the Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions, Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open, Longs Drugs Challenge (in a two-hole playoff with Pamela Kometani), Michelob Light Classic, CoreStates Betsy King Classic (where she successfully defended her title) and ITT LPGA Tour Championship (in a three-hole playoff with Lorie Kane and Pat Hurst); won the JCPenney/LPGA Skins Game with eight skins worth $220,000; crossed the $2 million mark in career earnings after her victory at the Longs Drugs Challenge; won her second Rolex Player of the Year title; won the Compaq Open on the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour (WPGET).
• In 1996, won three tournaments - successfully defended her title at both the U.S. Women's Open and Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf and won the CoreStates Betsy King Classic; crossed the $1 million mark in career earnings; won her second consecutive Vare Trophy for lowest season scoring average; was a member of the European Solheim Cup Team; won the Trygg Hansa Ladies' Open on the WPGET.
• In 1995, became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the U.S. Women's Open, making her one of 13 LPGA players to have the Open as her first LPGA career victory; won the GHP Heartland Classic by 10 strokes; won the Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf with a 45-foot chip-in on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Laura Davies; became the second international player to win Rolex Player of the Year; is the only player besides Nancy Lopez to have won Rolex Rookie of the Year and then the Rolex Player of the Year and Vare Trophy the following year; became the first international player to win the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average; also led the WPGET Order of Merit on the strength of two wins (OVB Damen Open, and Hennessy Cup); won the Australian Masters on the Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG) Tour.
• In 1994, was the Rolex Rookie of the Year on the strength of three top-10 finishes, including a season-best tie for second at the Weetabix Women's British Open; qualified for her first European Solheim Cup Team; won the Holden Australian Open Championship on the ALPG Tour.
• In 1993, competed in three LPGA events before joining the Tour, earning more than $47,000; tied for 38th at the PING Welch's Championship in Tucson, Ariz., placed fourth at the Standard Register PING and tied for ninth at the Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate; was the Rookie of the Year on the WPGET; qualified for the Tour by tying for 28th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 1994 season.

Major Championship History

		92	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04
	KNC	DNP	DNP	T24	T2	T8	T7	T7	T17	1	1	2	T13
	LPGA	DNP	DNP	10	T14	3	T30	T16	T12	5	3	1	1
	OPEN	T64	DNP	1	1	MC	T41	MC	T9	T16	2	4	2
	DM/WB	DNP^	T22^	T45^	T6^	MC^	2^	DNP^	3^	T32	MC	1	13

^ indicates finishes in the du Maurier Classic.

LPGA Record
Information indicates record before originally qualifying for the LPGA Tour.

Year	# Events	Cuts Made	W	2	3	Top 10s	Best	Money	Rank	Score Avg
1992	1	1	0	0	0	0	T64	N/A	N/A	77.00
1993	3	3	0	0	0	2	4	$47,319	N/A	71.09
1994	18	14	0	1	0	3	T2	127,451	39	71.90
1995	19	19	3	3	1	12	1	666,533	1	71.00
1996	20	20	3	2	1	14	1	808,311	3	70.47
1997	22	20	6	5	3	16	1	1,236,789	1	70.04
1998	21	21	4	4	2	17	1	1,092,748	1	69.99
1999	22	21	2	4	3	12	1	863,816	4	70.40
2000	22	22	5	2	4	15	1	1,404,948	2	70.47
2001	26	26	8	6	1	20	1	2,105,868	1	69.42
2002	23	22	11	3	3	20	1	2,863,904	1	68.70
2003	17	17	6	4	1	15	1	2,029,506	1	69.02
2004	18	18	8	4	0	16	1	2,544,707	1	68.70