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WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (AP) -Annika Sorenstam's won for the third time in eight events this season, capturing the Michelob Ultra Open on Sunday with a 5-under 66 to break the tournament's 72-hole record by five strokes.
After an injury-plagued winless 2007, the U.S. LPGA Tour's eight-time player of the year signaled her return to form is all but complete.
"The last nine holes, I just dialed it in," Sorenstam said. "The yardage was right. The club was right. The direction was right. It just felt really good, really solid."
She subdued a challenge from Loreno Ochoa on Saturday, and did the same to Jang Jeong on Sunday, finishing with a 19-under 265 to win by seven strokes,
With four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine, her four-round total broke Karrie Webb's record set two years ago on the Kingsmill Resort and Spa's River Course.
Jang missed a short putt on the final hole for her first bogey in 35 holes and finished with a 70 to share second with Christina Kim (69), Allison Fouch (64) and Karen Stupples (66).
Sorenstam hit almost every fairway and almost every green, overcoming an early bogey - just her second of the tournament - with birdies whenever Jang closed to within two shots.
She then used her wedge game to leave everyone behind.
"She hit a perfect iron shot every single hole," Jang said. "Annika's back."
"It's good to see that she is where she was when she was No. 1," said Kim, who played with Sorenstam and Jang in the final threesome. "It's just - flawless is the best way to put it."
Jang, playing with a sore wrist that she said has bothered her for more than a year, made a 15-foot birdie putt on the fifth hole to get within two, and Sorenstam promptly hit her approach on the par-4 sixth within 12 feet and made it to restore the three-shot edge.
When Jang chipped in from 40 yards on the par-4 ninth, Sorenstam left her long birdie putt just short, but hit her approach to within a few feet on No. 10 for another birdie.
Sorenstam added three consecutive birdies beginning on the par-3 13th, then another by hitting it close on the par-3 17th.
She was all smiles while waiting on the tee at the par-4 18th hole, where she hooked her drive into the water on Saturday, one of only two mistakes that hurt her all weekend.
She finished her 72nd career victory by missing a short putt for par, but by then it was academic.
Katherine Hull, who started the day tied for 21st, made the first double-eagle of the year when she hit a 3-wood 229 yards on the par-5 seventh, part of a 64 that lifted her into sixth, eight strokes back. The best round of her career also included a double bogey at the par-4 10th.
And Ahn Shi-hyun, whose first three rounds were 71, 71 and 72, tied the course record with a 63, making nine birdies and eight pars before a bogey on the par-4 ninth, her last hole.
