LPGA Tour Hall of Famer Amy Alcott was among a trio of legends and superstars who threw out the ceremonial first pitches before the Los Angeles Dodgers game on Sunday, Aug. 21 as part the team’s Women’s Day celebrations.

The legendary Maybelle Blair and young pitcher Jillian Albayati joined Alcott for the festivities. Blair is a 95-year-old retired professional baseball player from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the inspiration for “A League of Their Own.” Albayati is a superstar right-handed pitcher/infielder from nearby Anaheim and a member of USA Baseball Women’s National Team.

Left photo montage: LA Dodgers

Amy Alcott will join fellow World Golf Hall of Fame members Nancy Lopez, Juli Inkster, Hollis Stacy and Jan Stephenson in the Land O’Lakes Legends Classic presented by The Meadows at Mystic Lake on August 13-14 in Prior Lake, Minnesota, 25 minutes southwest of Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

Click here to read more about this great event.

For tickets and event information, visit LegendsClassicMN.com.

It was wonderful to recently spend time in Los Angeles with my friend Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Our friendship has spanned many rounds of golf and conversations about life, golf and politics. I always learn something amazing. I am grateful on so many levels for this friendship.

I had a wonderful time visiting with ol’ friends and making many new friends during the recent Amy Alcott & Friends Women’s Clinic and Luncheon that was part of the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX. What a day!

Proceeds from the event will support the Gettys D. Broome High School’s Girls Golf Team. Supporting this program will help get more girls playing at the school and it will help take care of their equipment and uniform needs for future years! Thrilled we could support this important program.

Special thanks to Lauren Thompson, Alex Baldwin, Sheryl Wilkerson and Ann Liguori – fun to spend the day with these remarkable women and hear their inspirational stories of life, career and golf! I hope to see everyone on the tee again soon!

Be a part of the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX as we navigate the importance of golf for women in business through our first Amy Alcott & Friends Women’s Clinic and Luncheon. The event will begin with the opportunity to shop a galleria featuring an array of items along with Mingling (networking) & Mimosas. Followed by a luncheon where you’ll have the chance to hear from LPGA Hall of Famer Amy Alcott as well as a panel of inspirational women who have used golf to elevate their careers. Finally, join us outside for a golf clinic that will provide instruction for golfers of all levels. Even if you’ve never touched a club before we have a spot for you!

• Wednesday, June 8 – 10:30 a.m.
• Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Proceeds from the Amy Alcott & Friends Women’s Clinic and Luncheon will help support Gettys D. Broome High School’s Girls Golf Team. Supporting this program will help get more girls playing at the school and help take care of their equipment and uniform needs for future years!

Please contact Kari Snyder for more information or to register: email Kari.

Tune in to The Golf Guy podcast featuring the great Amy Alcott. The program is hosted by Larry Stein. You can find the full podcast here: The Golf Guy

Listen in as Amy shares great memories and highlights of her hall of fame career, including how she got started in golf as a child, her experiences in junior golf, her influential coaches and mentors, navigating a successful global career, lifelong friendships created through golf and so much more.

When Amy Alcott, the LPGA star, heard that a golf course was going to be built for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, she had a creative breakthrough: The course should be designed by a male-female design partnership. Intentionally or not, she was recirculating the legendary pairings of Pete and Alice and Alister and Marion. Alcott lives in Los Angeles, where Gil Hanse was renovating the Los Angeles Country Club. They started comparing notes. They complemented each other…

Read the full article on Golf.com.

LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame member Amy Alcott, ASU sports historian Victoria Jackson, and sports attorney Jill Pilgrim, who has represented the LPGA and USA Track and Field, visit Zócalo to discuss how Title IX transformed sports for women, and its unfinished work leveling the playing field when it comes to everything from equal pay to equal opportunity.

This discussion was moderated by Lindsay Gibbs, Writer, “Power Plays” Newsletter & Host, “Burn It All Down” Podcast.

A recording of the event can be found on YouTube.

Many of America’s most prominent architects since the advent of color TV — including the original Robert Trent Jones — made their names selling brawn. So 1981. Golf is way better when it’s in touch with its feminine side.

Construction, of every kind, skews male. But golf does not. It needs designers like Marion Hollins and Alice Dye and Amy Alcott.

“You still hear people say ‘men’s tees’ and ‘women’s tees,’ ” Alcott said. “There should just be tee colors and descriptions: forward, middle, back. Play from wherever will make you happiest.” Gender be damned.

Read the full article written by Michael Bamberger on Golf News.

“It was unlike any other tournament in women’s golf with the media attention, the size of the crowds, the atmosphere and my winning check was greater than the total purse of many LPGA tournaments,” remembers Jane Blalock, who won the first ANA in 1972.

History hangs heavy over the ANA Inspiration, caressing this LPGA Tour major like the warm wind off the California desert. The tireless promotion of Dinah Shore, visionary sponsorship of David Foster and familiar challenges of Mission Hills are all part of a 50-year legacy that make this golden anniversary in the Golden State truly special.

The list of multiple champions is an honor roll of women’s golf. Amy Alcott, who introduced the leap into Poppie’s Pond in 1988, Betsy King and Annika Sorenstam are three-time winners. Juli Inkster, Dottie Pepper, Karrie Webb and Brittany Lincicome won twice. Sandra Post won in 1978 and ’79, before the ANA became a major in 1983, as she and Sorenstam in 2001-02 are the only winners in consecutive years.

You can read the full article at the LPGA’s site.