Two years ago, after turning 50, Sorenstam returned to competitive golf and easily won the U.S. Senior Women's Open by eight shots. That gave her an exemption into last year's U.S. Women's Open, where she missed the cut at Pine Needles, site of her 1996 Women's Open victory.

Sorenstam won 72 times on the LPGA and stepped away from playing full time after the 2008 season to start her family. She competed in her first LPGA event in more than a dozen years in in 2021, making the cut at the Gainbridge LPGA event at her home club, Lake Nona.

Her play subsequently fell off, and she retired from competitive golf in 2008. Sörenstam was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.

Annika Sorenstam describes her 11-year-old son, Will McGee, as a “golf nut,” so young Will was undoubtedly thrilled when he finally met one of his golf icons, Tiger Woods, last Saturday night prior to Woods competing in the latest iteration of The Match.

What Happened: Austin defeated six-time US Open champion Chris Evert in the 1979 final, 6-4, 6-3, to become the first teenager to claim the title in the Open Era. Austin, a two-time champion and Hall-of-Famer, remains the youngest women's champion in US Open history.

The U.S. Women's Open purse has doubled over the past two years, rising to $11 million, and is now the biggest purse women's golf. The winner this week, Allisen Corpuz, received $2 million, which matches the largest winner's check in the women's game.

However, prior to her stint as an entertainer, Spiranac did play golf professionally ultimately choosing to retire in 2016 after failing to make the LPGA Tour.

Motherhood was one of Wie West's motives for leaving the game. In her final act on the course she stayed true to her word. She might love the game of golf, but she loves being a mother more. “There is nothing I want more than my daughter to be in a better position than I ever was,” Wie West said last summer.

10-year-old Dané Gerber just placed her name in the history books by becoming the youngest winner of the lady's division of the Nedbank Amateur Golf Challenge.

In 2017, Thailand's Thitikul Atthaya became the youngest golfer ever to win a professional tournament, aged just 14 years, 4 months and 19 days when she won the Thailand Championship on the Ladies European Tour as an amateur. Atthaya, the current world No.

In June 2022, Zhang won the Washington Women's Amateur, becoming, at age 13, the youngest ever to win that state championship. In October 2022, she was named the Washington Golf Junior Girls' Player of the Year, and as part of that ceremony she played Apple Tree Golf Course in Yakima and promptly shot an 8-under 64.

Martina Hingis Martina Hingis, (born September 30, 1980, Košice, Czechoslovakia [now in Slovakia]), Swiss professional tennis player who became the youngest person in the “open” era to win a Grand Slam singles title and the youngest to be ranked world number one.