Annika Sörenstam Parents: Meet Tom Sörenstam, Gunilla Sörenstam

Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish former professional golfer. She is the daughter of Tom Sörenstam and Gunilla Sörenstam.

Her father, Tom, worked for IBM, while her mother, Gunilla, worked in a bank. Charlotta, her younger sister, was also a professional golfer and LPGA Tour winner who later coached at her sister’s academy.

Annika and Charlotta Sörenstam were the first sisters on the LPGA Tour to win $1 million each. Sörenstam was a gifted all-around athlete as a youth.

She was a nationally rated junior tennis player, played association football for her hometown team Bro IK, and was such an excellent skier that the coach of the Swedish national ski team advised the family relocate to northern Sweden so she could develop her skiing all year.

Annika Sörenstam is considered as one of the greatest female golfers of all time. She has won 90 international tournaments as a professional before retiring from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, making her the female golfer with the most wins.

She has won 72 official LPGA tournaments, including 10 majors, as well as 24 other foreign tournaments. She completed a career grand slam in 2003, winning each of the four tournaments recognised as major championships at least once throughout her career. She returned from retirement after reaching 50 and won the 2021 U.S. Senior Women’s Open.