{"id":21833,"date":"2025-08-22T12:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/annika-sorenstam-shoots-70-and-takes-a-one-round-lead-at-the-us-senior-womens-open\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:48:51","slug":"annika-sorenstam-shoots-70-and-takes-a-one-round-lead-at-the-us-senior-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/annika-sorenstam-shoots-70-and-takes-a-one-round-lead-at-the-us-senior-womens-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Annika Sorenstam shoots 70 and takes a one-round lead at the US Senior Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chula Vista, California &#8211; Anica Sorenstam shot a 3-under 70 on Thursday to take the first round lead at the US Senior Women&#8217;s Open at the San Diego Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Sorenstam won the tournament in 2021 after winning the US Women&#8217;s Open titles in 1995, &#8217;96 and 2006. The 54-year-old Swede has won the LPGA Tour 72 times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased with the first round,&#8221; Sorenstam said. &#8220;I felt it was pretty solid from the tee to the green. I think it was a few good approach shots on the right side of the flag, which is very useful on this course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moira Dan Balls suffered a stroke between amateur Lara Tennant and 72-year-old Barb Moxness. 2023 champion Trish Johnson was another stroke back to 72 with Corina Kelepouris.<\/p>\n<p>Karrie Webb scored 73 in his first career round at the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the nerves and anxiety were definitely there. It&#8217;s a kind of course you don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ll really feel comfortable,&#8221; said Webb, 50.<\/p>\n<p>Juli Inkster had 75. She made a 50-foot Eagle Putt in her first hole, par 5 10th place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chula Vista, California &#8211; Anica Sorenstam shot a 3-under 70 on Thursday to take the first round lead at the US Senior Women&#8217;s Open at the San Diego Country Club. Sorenstam won the tournament in 2021 after winning the US Women&#8217;s Open titles in 1995, &#8217;96 and 2006. The 54-year-old Swede has won the LPGA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-21833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}