Annika Sorenstam is taking some time off from the golf tournaments, as she revealed on Tuesday in a press conference. The reason: there are other priorities in her life at the moment, on both personal and professional level. The Swedish-native player said she would retire at the end of the year, amid wedding preparations and plans to fulfill some golf-related projects.

“The reason for this decision is that I have other priorities in my life,” Sorenstam said. “This is obviously a very difficult decision for me to take, because I love this game very much.” However, she avoided by all means using the word “retirement,” saying she is just stepping away from the competition, on her own terms, and who knows, she might be back one day.

The professional golf player, winner of eight Player of the Year awards, and holder of a large number of records, announced that the last tournament in the LPGA Tour she will participate in will be the ADT Championship scheduled to take place in November, while the final tournament will be the Dubai Ladies Masters in December.

“She’s done everything there is to do in golf and dominated women’s golf for a long time and that is more difficult to do today than it was then,” Amy Alcott said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Her level of consistency is unparalleled, and then you add in the 59 and the Colonial and those are the types of things that history remembers.”

Annika’s career is impressive: she won a total of 72 LPGA tournaments, she’s been selected Rookie of the Year in 1993 and 1994, won Tour Player of the Year in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001 – 2005, Tour Money Winner eight times, Vare Trophy five times, and the list continues.