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===Retirement=== On 13 May 2008, Sörenstam announced at a press conference at the Sybase Classic that she would "step away" from competitive golf at the conclusion of the 2008 season.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/sports/golf/14golf.html |title=Annika Sorenstam Announces Retirement |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Frank |last=Litsky |date=14 May 2008 |access-date=12 September 2018}}</ref> That night, she threw out the first pitch of the Washington Nationals/New York Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York and the following day read the Top Ten on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]''.<ref name="retirement lpga">{{cite web |date=13 May 2008 |title=Annika Announces Decision to 'Step Away' from Competitive Play at End of Season |url=http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?pid=15338&mid=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517141802/http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?pid=15338&mid=2 |archive-date=17 May 2008 |access-date=13 May 2008 |publisher=LPGA}}</ref> Her last tournament victory came in a playoff at the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open, an event co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the Ladies Asian Golf tour.<ref name="China">{{cite web |title=Sorenstam wins playoff in China |publisher=LET |date=2 November 2008 |url=http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/content/let_content_news.php?Id=18788 |access-date=31 January 2009}}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Her last scheduled tournament on the LPGA Tour was the season-ending [[ADT Championship]] in November, where she failed to make the weekend play in the event's unique playoff structure. Her final sanctioned LPGA appearance was as the winning captain of Team International at the 2008 Lexus Cup in Singapore.<ref name="Lex2008">{{cite web |date=30 November 2008 |title=Team International wins the Lexus Cup 2008 |url=http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?mid=2&pid=18304 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211213050/http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?mid=2&pid=18304 |archive-date=11 February 2009 |access-date=31 January 2009 |publisher=LPGA}}</ref> Her last professional tournament was the Dubai Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour in December 2008,<ref name="retirement gc">{{cite news |title=Sorenstam: "I'm Stepping Away" |work=The Golf Channel |date=13 May 2008 |url=http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=15104&select=25882 |access-date=13 May 2008 |archive-date=15 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515055709/http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=15104&select=25882 |url-status=dead}}</ref> where she finished tied for 7th.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spelare, Annika Sörenstam, Samtliga tävlingsresultat i kronologisk ordning, Dubai Ladies Masters |language=Swedish |trans-title=Player, Annika Sörenstam, All tournament results in chronological order, Dubai Ladies Masters |url=https://golfdata.se/sgfranking/tournament_results?CompID=W0850XX |access-date=21 February 2024 |publisher=Swedish Golf Federation and Golf Data AB}}</ref>
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