As an amateur competing for the Texas Longhorns, she won the NCAA Division I Championship individual title.

[2] At the European Tour tournament Scandinavian Enterprise Open in Stockholm in July 1986, the Sörenstam sisters tried to be volunteer caddies and was asked to stand in a line with all other candidates.

When all male volunteer caddies finally had been chosen by the tournament professionals, three teen-age girls were left without a bag yet.

[13][14] At the end of 1996, she finished second at the LPGA Tour Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for 1997.

[15] She has one LPGA Tour win, the 2000 Standard Register PING,[16] and two runner-up finishes, the 1998 Friendly's Classic and 1999 The Philips Invitational.

Sörenstam received the 2004 Mary Bea Porter Award from the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association for saving Donna Caponi from choking during the 2003 LPGA Championship.

From 2018 to 2020 she was the Director of instruction at Charlotte Harbor National Golf Club in North Port, Florida.