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Sorenstam has Whaley to thank for paving the way

By Bob Harig
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

If she hasn't done so already, Annika Sorenstam has a great chance this week to extend a handshake of thanks. She is playing an LPGA Tour event in Virginia, the Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill, but of course all of the talk is about Forth Worth, Texas, the Colonial, and her historic foray onto the PGA Tour and men's professional golf. But if it weren't for Suzy Whaley, would any of this be happening? Whaley, who also is playing this week on the LPGA Tour, is the Connecticut teach ...

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