A Veteran Takes a Bow as a Youngster Takes the Title
Published 6/30/2008 at NYT > Golf
Exit Annika Sorenstam, enter Inbee Park, the teenager from South Korea who withstood withering pressure to win the United States Open on Sunday. >
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