Sorenstam looks for UK win to complete Slam feat

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- For someone who is so good at her game that she has even played against the top men in golf, Annika Sorenstam hasn't much else to achieve.

She has won 25 tournaments in three years, including three majors, and she became the first woman in 58 years to play on the PGA Tour when she competed in the Colonial in May, though she missed the cut.

So what else is in the Swede's sights?

How about completing a career Grand Slam at the Women's British Open on Sunday.

"I'll do anything for it to happen, I would love for it to happen," Sorenstam said Tuesday. "But I can't force it."

While Sorenstam may have the golf game to tame the Lytham links, she may not be 100 percent over her experience of taking on the PGA stars at the Colonial.

She admits it took more out of her mentally than she had imagined and, despite winning two tournaments since then and finishing fourth behind Hilary Lunke at the Women's U.S. Open at Pumpkin Ridge, she had no time to take a break.

She withdrew after just six holes of the Canadian Women's Open at Vancouver on July 10, citing sickness and exhaustion.

"I learned that I can't go 100 percent every single day," she said. "I have enjoyed pretty much everything since I decided to play Colonial. But I've been nonstop. I have been playing a lot of tournaments. I have been doing a lot of requests, TV appearances ... And I think that's what hit me in Canada.

"I can't go full force. I have learned something but when I look back on everything I wouldn't want to change anything. I'm kind of paying the price right now."

Now she faces the strongest field ever in the history of the $1.6 million championship, which has been a major on the LPGA Tour for three years.

Karrie Webb will defend the title she won at Turnberry last year and the 2001 winner, Se Ri Pak, leads a strong challenge from South Korea.

A victory for Sorenstam, who missed the cut last year, would take her list of major triumphs to six to go with two Nabiscos, two U.S. Opens and this year's LPGA Championship.

"I'm a tough person to please," she said. I said 10 majors "not so long ago, and I guess that's my goal. I have five as of now and that means another five so I've got to get going that's for sure."

She added: "My goals for the last two years has been to perform better in the majors, and I really believe that I have."