STOCKHOLM: Record TV ratings for golf. Unprecedented coverage in the newspapers. In less than a week, Annika Sorenstam became the hottest celebrity in her native Sweden.
Not since the days of former world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson, tennis ace Bjorn Borg and Alpine skiing great Ingemar Stenmark has a Swedish athlete generated more headlines.
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