Sunningdale is to host a very special event this summer – the final major of Annika Sorenstam’s glittering career.

Record prize money of £8.8m (€12.2m) will be on offer on the 2008 Ladies European Tour, it was announced today.

Scotland’s Catriona Matthew claimed her fifth worldwide title with a three-stroke victory at the Scandinavian TPC Hosted by Annika.

Annika Sorenstam begins the defence of her own tournament in Sweden tomorrow hoping to salvage a difficult season.

Beth Bader’s second sub-70 round has her in a very unfamiliar position.

World number one Annika Sorenstam began the new season in perfect fashion when she joined Liselotte Neumann in winning the Women’s’ World Cup for Sweden at Sun City in South Africa.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM has beaten stiff competition from Michael Campbell and Colin Montgomerie to create more golfing history.

Annika Sorenstam has beaten stiff competition from Michael Campbell and Colin Montgomerie to create more golfing history.

THE biggest marketing feeding frenzy in women’s golf is to be unleashed today as teenage prodigy Michelle Wie turns pro — a week before her 16th birthday.

South Korea’s Jeong Jang, the leader from round one, too an even firmer grip on the Weetabix Women’s British Open after a third round 69 today at Royal Birkdale.

World number one Annika Sorenstam launched the main European attack on American youngsters Paula Creamer and Christina Kim after a second round 66 in the Evian Masters in France yesterday.

SERGIO GARCIA and Annika Sorenstam came up with a European double in America last night.

Michelle Wie’s decision to contest the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic in July has been defended by her instructor.

Fred Couples made two big putts – both worth at least $300,000 (€226,400) – and was again the big winner of the Skins Game that also included Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Annika Sorenstam.

Swedish amateur Louise Stahle took the first round lead in the HP Open with a faultless five-under-par 67 at Ullna GC in Stockholm.

World number one Annika Sorenstam will be chasing her third Evian Masters title in five years when the event gets underway at Evians-Les-Bains in France today.

AMERICAN Meg Mallon celebrated Independence Day in style, coming from three behind at the start of the day to clinch her second US Women’s Open crown by two shots at the Orchards Golf Club on Sunday.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON is all for it; Greg Norman, Ernie Els and Colin Montgomerie are all against it.

Greg Norman today urged golf’s administrators to find a way of outlawing the increasingly popular practice of leading female players taking sponsors’ invitations to compete on the men’s tours.

COLIN MONTGOMERIE is among a number of male golfers expressing doubts about the increasing amount of lady golfers playing at the men’s tournaments.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM’S historic season has been recognised with her winning the 2003 Golf Writers’ Trophy.

Annika Sorenstam’s historic season has been recognised with her winning the 2003 Golf Writers’ Trophy.

Great Britain’s Laura Davies claimed a share of the halfway lead after launching a second-round birdie spree at the ADT Tour Players’ Championship at West Palm Beach in Florida today.

WORLD number one Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam when she won her first Weetabix Women’s British Open yesterday with a final-round 70 at Royal Lytham and St Anne’s.

Whatever relief Colin Montgomerie felt about surviving a halfway cut again did not have a positive effect on his game in the third round of the United States Open today.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM, back where she belongs on the LPGA Tour following her brief flirtation with the men a fortnight ago, is in prime form for this week’s McDonald’s LPGA Championship.