Sorenstam defies her critics

ANNIKA SORENSTAM defied her critics with a highly creditable one over par 71 in her first-ever round on the PGA Tour.

With sunshine beginning to burn through the clouds, Sorenstam became the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to play in a PGA Tour event.

Sorenstam carded one birdie and just two bogeys, the second on her final hole, which gives the women’s world number one every chance of making the halfway cut today.