WILLIAMSBURG -- Any further questions?

LPGA Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam dispelled all doubts about her ability, her age, her health and her desire yesterday with a breathtaking final-round performance and a commanding victory in the $2.2 million Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill.

Sorenstam, a 37-year-old Swede who is No.2 in the world rankings, earned her third championship of the season and the 72nd of her peerless career with a 5-under-par 66 and a 72-hole score of 19-under 265, by five shots the best in the tournament's six-year history. So superior was she on the back nine -- 4 under par, four birdies in five holes at one point -- that she appeared to be an adult frolicking on a child's Putt-Putt course.

"It feels great. It feels amazing, really," said Sorenstam, who finished seven shots in front of Jeong Jang, Allison Fouch, Karen Stupples and Christina Kim. "I feel wonderful. I feel relieved. I feel happy."

On the back nine, in particular, "I really had it dialed in. The yardage was right, the clubs were right, the direction was right. I felt very good, very solid and very much in control."

Sorenstam, who seems to have shaken off the last traces of the neck and back problems that rendered her irrelevant last year, hasn't been at the top since she won the most recent of her five consecutive LPGA player of the year trophies in 2005. She said she is a different woman and a different golfer now: more appreciative, less intense, softer perhaps.

As recently as three years ago, she said, "I took certain things for granted. I'd come to a tournament and I expected to perform and I expected to win. Top three wasn't good enough."

After the physical and emotional misery of 2007, she said, "I see things in a different light. I appreciate making cuts, being in the top 10, giving myself a chance to win. I cherish the wins now because I know how tough it is to win out here and I know that anything can happen to you almost overnight."

Sorenstam, who was greeted and sprayed with beer by fiance Mike McGee after putting out on the 18th green, was handsomely rewarded for her week's labor. Her winner's check -- $330,000 -- was more than she had collected in her previous four visits to Kingsmill combined. Never before had she finished higher than sixth.

"I love this place and I love this golf course and I've always wanted to play well here," she said. "It's a big tournament on our schedule. The best players are always here. It's kind of like our Players Championship."

So spectacular was Sorenstam on a gray, blustery day on the banks of the lower James River that she eclipsed several other splendid final-round performances: a 63, matching the course record, by Shi Hyun Ahn, and 64s by Fouch and Katherine Hull. Those were mere window dressing. The winner's performance under championship pressure was little short of exquisite. She hit 14 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 greens.

Jang said Sorenstam seemed to "hit a perfect iron shot on every single hole." It became apparent at the midpoint of the round, she said, that "I can't catch her."

Kim, who played in the final group with Sorenstam and Jang, said the new champion made the game appear deceptively and monotonously simple.

"It didn't even hit me," she said. "Coming down 18, I was like, 'Holy . . . she's 20-under.'"

Sorenstam was forced to work diligently before her back-nine coronation. She began the day with a three-shot lead over Jang and a four-shot advantage over Kim. Jang closed to two on three occasions, the last with a 45-yard chip-in for birdie on the par-4 ninth hole. Sorenstam responded each time by making birdie on the next hole.

Said Sorenstam: "I feel like I've been answering somebody every day. The first two days it was Lorena [Ochoa]. Today it was J.J. Every time I felt like I needed to do it, I did it -- which is a great feeling."