It might be time for Annika Sorenstam to reassess her goals for the season. She wants to win all four major championships, but perhaps a better goal might be to win every golf tournament she plays in.
The way Sorenstam is playing, anything seems possible after she easily won the Nabisco Championship on Sunday.
The Swede was doused in champagne after sinking her putt on the final hole before taking the traditional winner's plunge into the pond next to the 18th green along with sister Charlotta and mother Gunilla.
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"I'm going to remember this Easter weekend for a long time," Sorenstam said.
So will golf fans, who witnessed the best player of her generation -- perhaps the best ever -- produce a weekend that included 10 birdies and no bogeys over the final 36 holes.
Sorenstam was so dominating that fellow competitors could only marvel at the new heights her game is reaching.
"It only shows that she's that much better than the rest of us," defending champion Grace Park said.
The win was Sorenstam's fifth in a row over two seasons, tying a record set by Nancy Lopez in 1978. It also was the 59th LPGA Tour victory of her career -- a number Sorenstam is very familiar with -- and her eighth major championship win.
Lopez didn't even bother to compare her with other players on the LPGA Tour. She aimed a little higher.
"I think really, and truly, she's better than Tiger Woods," Lopez said. "We have a lot of great players out here and nobody is even coming close to her."
Unlike most players, Sorenstam has no problem with stating her goals, whether they are playing in a men's tournament or winning the women's Grand Slam. Unlike most players, she sets them high and then has a good chance of meeting them.
Sorenstam stumbled last year after saying she wanted to win all four majors and only won one. But she has one down now, and is playing the best golf of her remarkable career.
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