Annika number 16
It doesn’t go too well for the Swedes… Annika Sörenstam has gotten closer to the top, but only a little. She has five shots to go to the leaders. There is still a chance she wins, but it has become very slim.
Obviously, I bring misfortune to all the Swedes I go to cover. A lot of antiklimaxes: Kenny Bräck had to quit the race in Indianapolis, Annika Östberg didn’t get a determination of her prison time by the Board of Prison Term in California, and Annika Sörenstam has bad luck here. Well, at least the latter started before I came.
Golf is a tough sport to cover for journalists, I discovered! It’s not enough to just sit and watch. If you want to the see the game you have to walk fairly quickly. I followed Annika Sörenstam during her last 10 holes, and there was not much time to sit around and rest.
And then I had to send lots of texts very quickly. Sports texts always have to be written in something like five minutes. But I think it worked out – you can see my first, draft-like version here: DN - Sport - Sörenstam har inte gett upp segern. I wrote two updated versions, but they are not on the net.
It sucks to always be six to nine hours behind deadline time in Sweden, in this case eight! And I guess I shouldn’t mention this, but I have dropped my new expensive, fabulous camera behind somewhere!
Now, time to go back downtown Denver and find about where to eat a deasent meal and to track that camera down.
/Gunilla
