WEST PALM BEACH - Her history-making year is almost over, and already Annika Sorenstam is thinking of new ways to shake up the golf world.
"I would like to win more majors," Sorenstam said Wednesday. "I do believe it's possible to win four in a row, same year, and that's what I'm going to try to do next year."
It has never been done, and it could very well take something that momentous for her to top 2003, when she entered the World Golf Hall of Fame, was named LPGA Player of the Year and captured the world's attention by teeing it up with the men.
She is sandwiching this week's LPGA Tour Championship inside a Skins Game last week against the men in Singapore and another next week in California.
But she said her days of playing serious tournament golf against the guys are over for the foreseeable future, for one overriding reason: "I want to win. It's tough when you stand on every hole with a 5-iron or a 7-wood trying to hit the green and you know you have to make a long putt to make a birdie."
The season-ending event for the LPGA's top 30 money winners begins today at Trump International Golf Club here.
PRESIDENTS CUP: Gary Player believes the matches between U.S. and international players that begin today in George, South Africa, will deliver a powerful message to South Africans.
"Young kids sitting in Soweto and villages in South Africa, most of them have got a TV set somehow or another," said Player, the International team captain and South Africa's greatest player. "When they can see the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world are both black, it's an awful big dream. It's a dream that can be fulfilled."
He was speaking of Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, who will head their teams in six alternate-shot matches today, 10 team matches Friday, six on Saturday and 12 singles matches Sunday.
Woods and Charles Howell III face Stuart Appleby and K.J. Choi; Singh and Retief Goosen take on Chris DiMarco and Jerry Kelly. (Complete pairings, 7C.)
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Mark James, winner of 18 events on the European Tour, shot 2-under 70 to forge a one-stroke lead over Mark McNulty and Mark Johnson after 36 holes of the national qualifying tournament in Coral Gables. James is at 7-under 137. The starting field of 110 professionals was reduced to 76 with the cut falling at 5-over-par 149.
