{"id":81642,"date":"2025-11-19T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/grant-conquers-the-annika-the-swede-dominates-and-adds-her-2nd-lpga-title-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:00","slug":"grant-conquers-the-annika-the-swede-dominates-and-adds-her-2nd-lpga-title-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/grant-conquers-the-annika-the-swede-dominates-and-adds-her-2nd-lpga-title-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant conquers The Annika: The Swede dominates and adds her 2nd LPGA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Linn Grant conquers The Annika with a dominant performance<\/h2>\n\nSwedish golfer Linn Grant demonstrated exceptional control in her game, culminating in a victory at The Annika with a score of 5 under par (65) for a total of three strokes ahead of Jennifer Kupcho.\n\nThis victory represents Grant&#8217;s second LPGA title, and the second time she has received the trophy from the legendary Swedish golfer and tournament host, Annika Sorenstam.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;You made this field look easy. It&#8217;s not easy,&#8221; Sorenstam commented to Grant on the 18th hole.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Annika Sorenstam<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGrant maintained an impressive streak of 52 consecutive holes without making a bogey, which finally came to an end on the last hole, although by that time the victory was already assured. He finished the tournament with a total of 19 under par (261).\n\nThe Swedish golfer expressed her satisfaction with the performance, highlighting the feeling of satisfaction upon finishing the tournament with a victory.\n\nGrant remembered his childhood, when he attended Sorenstam&#8217;s clinics in Sweden, which gave a special meaning to this victory.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1116%2Fr1576553_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Linn Grant y Annika Sorenstam\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nKupcho, although she started with a birdie, couldn&#8217;t keep up with Grant, who took the lead on the second hole and didn&#8217;t let go. Grant consolidated her lead with a birdie on the ninth hole, increasing the distance to three strokes, a difference that Kupcho couldn&#8217;t reduce.\n\nGaby Lopez, from Mexico, achieved third place with a round of 65, including birdies on four of the last six holes.\n\nBrooke Matthews also had a memorable weekend, achieving a hole-in-one that earned her a two-year lease for a Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n. In addition, she achieved an eagle, which led to a tie for ninth place and secured her a spot in the CME Group Tour Championship.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;It was incredible. All week I was saying, &#8216;I want to win the Lamborghini.&#8217; &#8230; I still can&#8217;t believe it. I can&#8217;t wait to see it on video because I still don&#8217;t remember it,&#8221; Matthews said.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Brooke Matthews<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nNataliya Guseva and Lucy Li also secured their place in next week&#8217;s tournament.\n\nGrant, who has won titles on various tours since 2020, including the LPGA, the Ladies European Tour and the European Tour, expressed the importance of maintaining a successful trajectory in golf.\n\nNelly Korda, the defending champion, couldn&#8217;t compete with Grant and finished in 15th place.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linn Grant conquers The Annika with a dominant performance Swedish golfer Linn Grant demonstrated exceptional control in her game, culminating in a victory at The Annika with a score of 5 under par (65) for a total of three strokes ahead of Jennifer Kupcho. This victory represents Grant&#8217;s second LPGA title, and the second time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7660,163,10204,1515],"class_list":{"0":"post-81642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-annika-sorenstam","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-linn-grant","11":"tag-lpga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}