23 October 2009 / REUTERS , LOS ANGELES
Annika Sorenstam says she has no regrets over her decision to “step away” from competitive golf, and has fully embraced her new role as a mother while juggling various other business interests.
Widely regarded as the best female player of all time, the Swede brought the curtain down on her glittering career at the Dubai Ladies Masters at the end of last year. Since then, Sorenstam has given birth to her first child, helped golf’s successful bid to be included on the Olympic schedule from the 2016 Games and acted as an advisor to the LPGA Tour in its search for a new Commissioner. Not once has she missed the cut-and-thrust of tournament golf, although she does not rule out a possible return to competition at some point in the future. “I don’t want to close the door,” Sorenstam, 39, told Reuters in a telephone interview from her home in Florida.
