Annika Sorenstam takes her final walk up the 18th fairway at an LPGA event. She failed to make the cut Friday in the ADT Championship.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Annika Sorenstam's storied LPGA Tour career is over.

The 72-time tour winner shot a 3-over par 75 on Friday at the ADT Championship, leaving her 5 over through two rounds of the LPGA's season-ending event. Only 16 players advanced to the third round in the 32-woman event, and Sorenstam finished two shots out of that mix.

She announced six months ago she was leaving the tour at year's end to pursue business interests, get married and start a family. Sorenstam is still is No. 2 in the world rankings, but at 38 decided it's time for new challenges.

"All of a sudden, the time is here," Sorenstam said. "You're standing there on the 18th fairway, and it's your last approach shot in an LPGA event. A lot of thoughts go through your head ... and what's been the coolest thing this week is all these people who showed up that I don't know, my fans."

Even Lorena Ochoa — the defending ADT champion, who also didn't advance to the weekend — showed up at the 18th green to give her friend, rival and fellow former Arizona Wildcat a farewell hug.

"I can't imagine how she's doing right now," Ochoa said. "But I guess it will come for all of us at one point. So we can only say that we enjoyed having her, and thank you for everything."

Sorenstam won the ADT four times, but never reached the weekend in the unusual double-cut, erase-the-scores format.

Katherine Hull shot 71 to get to 5 under, making her the leader after two rounds, a fact that will be completely irrelevant this morning. The scorecards of the surviving 16 all get erased for the third round, and will again when the final eight play Sunday.

Angela Stanford finished 4 under, one shot ahead of Christina Kim, In-Kyung Kim and Paula Creamer.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Tucsonan Ronnie Black missed full-exempt status for next season when he bogeyed the third home of a playoff Friday at the Champions Tour qualifying tournament.

Black shot a final-round 73 to finish in a three-way tie for fourth at 2-under-par 286. Since the top five finishers receive a full exemption, he went into a three-way playoff with Steve Thomas and James Mason for the final spot.

Mason won the fourth playoff spot on the second playoff hole, and Thomas had a birdie to Black's bogey on the third hole to grab the fifth spot.

As one of those finishing sixth through 12th, Black will receive a conditional exemption for tour events in 2009.

HONG KONG — A 14-year-old golfer from Hong Kong became the youngest player to make the cut at an European Tour event on Friday, breaking the record set by Sergio Garcia.

Jason Hak shot 70 in each of the first two rounds at his home tournament, the $2.5 million Hong Kong Open, just making the par 140 cut.

Garcia, currently No. 2 in the world, was 15 years, 46 days old when he made the cut at the 1995 Turespana Open Mediterrania in Valencia, Spain.

South African Louis Oosthuizen shot an 8-under 62 — one shy of the course record — to claim a share of the lead with English pair Oliver Wilson and Oliver Fisher and Thailand's Chawalit Plaphol with a two-round total of 8-under 132.

● Even in the first few minutes of a presumed retirement, Annika Sorenstam was subject to drug testing.

An LPGA official told Sorenstam shortly after her second and final round at the ADT Championship that she needed to submit to a random test, which Sorenstam said was her second in recent weeks.

The LPGA started a random testing plan at the start of this season. Earlier this week, LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens said she could not discuss how many players were tested, or the events where testing took place.