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Charting a New Course
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Charting a New Course continued...
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‘She has a huge name’
With the growing popularity of the
women’s game
worldwide, perhaps it may not take long for
perceptions to
change, and the
consensus is that
Sorenstam
could be the game’s first
big-name female
architect,
especially abroad. In the coming years,
she
has the
chance to
bring awareness to
women in golf design, just as she
did by
playing against the men in the 2003
Colonial.
“No
question she’ll be
successful,”
says Stephenson. “She has a
huge name
and the
financials behind her. I’ve never seen
anyone
dissect the game
better than she did. She’s Hogan-like
of how to be
No. 1, and I’m sure
she’ll do
the same with
this.”
For now, her $500,000 fee
is a
bargain compared
with
those of her male
player-architect counterparts
like
Nicklaus,
Woods
and Greg
Norman. Although architecture is not
yet
at
the
top of her priority list—after
an
injury-plagued
2007 season,
Sorenstam has her sights set on
returning to the
top this year
before
getting married
in 2009 and having children at some
point—she
eventually will devote herself
full-time to her
design
business.
“When
I have the chance, I’m
going to throw
myself into it
and do it right,” she
says. “I
want to dedicate my
time
and want to represent it
well. Just
like you
have to practice in golf,
you
have to practice this. If you
asked me 10 years ago if someone
would ask me to design a golf
course, I
don’t know if
that would have
happened. Why would
little me from a little
country
and a little town,
why would I
be asked to
design a
course? But now that
I have, it’s
pretty
cool and I want to do more.”
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