Karrie Webb turns back the clock to win Senior LPGA
Karrie Webb – photo Legends Tour
Karrie Webb’s rivalry with her long-time adversary in regular LPGA golf, Annika Sorenstam, continued this week with the Australian emerging as the winner by four shots over Sorenstam to claim the Senior LPGA Championship at the Salina Country Club in Salina in Kansas.
Webb’s final round of 67 saw her edge clear, an eagle by her at the 14th hole important in the final analysis as at that point the pair were separated by just one shot.
The pair have accumulated a total of seventeen major titles in regular LPGA golf (Sorenstam 10 and Webb 7) so this week’s event continued the rivalry of two of the female game’s greatest players.
Webb has played two events on the LPGA Tour in 2022 after entering semi-retirement a couple of seasons ago but she again displayed the great game which saw her as one of the dominant female golfers through the 1990’s and 2000’s.
Her last major title in regular golf came when winning her 7th and final event at that level at the then Kraft Nabisco event in California in 2006.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had to make putts down the stretch to win a golf tournament,” laughed Webb. “So the mouth was getting dry and the little putts were seeming a little bit longer.
“I’m not used to playing golf with adrenaline. It was hard to know how far I was hitting it, so it was a bit of a guessing game, but I think I did pretty good overall with it.”
