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Annika wins 70th!

Annika Sorenstam waited 17 months to collect a T-shirt from her sister and a bottle of wine from a friend with No. 70 proudly displayed on them.

“It’s probably dusty,” she said. “I’m ready to collect it now.”

Sorenstam won the season-opening SBS Open for her 70th LPGA title and first since September 2006, birdieing two of the last three holes Saturday for a 3-under 69 and two-stroke victory.

Also noted this interesting nugget that Angela Park was docked 2 strokes for slow play:

Angela Park (69) was assessed a two-stroke penalty for slow play on the par-4 10th that gave her a triple bogey and cost her a shot at the lead and about $60,000. Park then birdied three of the next four holes to get back within a stroke of the lead before Sorenstam’s late birdies.

Park said she wasn’t holding up play. “I really don’t think it’s fair especially because I was in contention. I don’t think it’s fair at all.”

Rules officials said Park’s second, third and fourth shots on the hole all exceeded the time limit. Park disagreed and was visibly upset, in tears after her round.

“I was so mad out there,” she said. “I was flying through the course on the back nine. I was so frustrated.”

The PGA Tour could really, really use this rule. Mike Weir, Ben Crane and Jim Furyk (quite possibly the most annoying putting routine on the planet), are you listening?