ANN ARBOR, Michigan – Throughout Annika Sorenstam's short career as a senior player, her son Will McGee has been at the forefront. Quick to give advice and a hug, Will has even taken center stage from time to time at the PNC Championship, where the outgoing teen teams up annually with his famous mom.
But on Tuesday at the U.S. Senior Women's Open, 55-year-old Sorenstam's mind was on her eldest child, daughter Ava, playing in her first high school golf match back home in central Florida for Lake Highland Prep.
"I want to make sure she survives nine holes," Sorenstam said with a smile at Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sorenstam, a 72-time winner on the LPGA, is one of five past champions in the field this week at the Donald Ross design.
Toward the end of her junior year, 16-year-old Ava, a softball player, announced to the family that she wanted to try out for the golf team in her last year of high school. Ava likes to play more than practice, so if Sorenstam wanted to hang out with her daughter, she had to leave the range.
It's a new strategy for the 10-time LPGA major winner, who smoked the field by eight when she made her U.S. Senior Women's Open debut five years ago. Will was 10 back then, and already a golf nut who was well-versed in his mother's resume.

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