“On the Green” is a podcast series focused on the world of golf; features on local courses; and interviews with industry leaders. In this episode Tim and Amy discuss topics that span her career from her childhood beginnings until now.
You can listen to the podcast on the “On the Green” website.
Amy won the Legends Junior Inspiration at the ANA Championship. Back on number 18 at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, CA where I had so much success in my career, winning the 1983, 1988 and 1991 Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Hall of Famer Amy Alcott will not be competing in next month’s Senior LPGA Championship presented by Old National Bank at French Lick Resort, but she could not be more thrilled that more major tournaments are now taking place to entice the best senior players in the women’s game.
“Golf doesn’t stop at 50. I love to compete and just want to put the peg in the ground and go play against my friends that I have played with for so many years. I think it’s great to light the fire for women over 50.”
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By GARY VAN SICKLE | June 14, 2018
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – I met a couple of Open contestants here Wednesday morning who drive it 225 yards off the tee but think they can be competitive.
Amy Alcott and Hollis Stacy.
Oh, I meant U.S. Senior Women’s Open contestants. It’s a new tournament in the USGA corral, finally giving the, uh, mature women the same chance to compete that senior men were afforded when the USGA started its U.S. Senior Open in 1980. Thirty-eight years later? Yeah, that’s about how far behind women’s equality issues usually lag men’s in our great society.
“The event is a long time in coming,” said Alcott, a World Golf Hall of Famer whose 29 LPGA victories included five major championships. “I want to thank the USGA for stepping up to the plate way before the #MeToo comments were ever made and making this a reality.”
I was a little embarrassed when the USGA’s own news conference, featuring executive director Mike Davis and managing director Jeff Hall, paused briefly at its conclusion and Alcott, fellow Hall of Famer Stacy and Senior Women’s Open director Matt Sawicki stepped onto the podium for an additional session and three-fourths of the 75 or so media in the room got to their feet and exited.
Los Angeles loves its Dodgers but went without an NFL team for 20 years and responded with a collective whatevs.
The question is, based on past performance, whether the LPGA has no business returning to a region in which it has never been able to establish traction. We posed it to Los Angeles’ resident LPGA expert, World Golf Hall of Famer Amy Alcott, a native of Santa Monica.
“From my experience in close to 40 years of playing the tour,” she said Tuesday, “I always found that it was the small cities—Corning, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., Dubuque, Iowa—those are the cities that have smaller populations where the LPGA becomes the biggest show in town.”
Read more of what Amy had to say at Golf Digest.
On the 30th anniversary, Amy Alcott reflects on what inspired her to make her first leap into Poppie’s Pond and how it became one of the great traditions on the LPGA tour.
You can watch the video on the LPGA website.
Amy Alcott invented the Poppie’s Pond leap.
Her name is all over everything about the most colorful victory celebration in women’s golf, except the pond itself, which is named after Terry Wilcox, the former tournament director affectionately known as “Poppie.”
While Alcott first made the leap 30 years ago, the plunge she took with Dinah Shore three years later ranks as her most memorable, and maybe the one that most cemented the leap’s tradition as something that would set the event apart as a new major championship.
“I didn’t have any clue what I was starting 30 years ago,” Alcott said. “It was just a moment where I embraced my happiness.”
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LPGA.com Managing Editor Amy Rogers reflects on the 30th anniversary of Amy Alcott’s leap into Poppie’s Pond.
Amy Alcott, Sandy LaBauve and Susie Maxwell Berning are being honored this week at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup as the LPGA’s ‘Pioneers’ of 2018, a tribute to their trailblazing spirit as well as their exemplary participation in the development and advancement of the LPGA Tour and women’s golf.
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