I’m excited to share with you that I am part of a design team that will make a final presentation later this month to the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee for the Olympic golf course design project. Our team is led by my good friend and noted architect Gil Hanse. Gil was named GOLF Magazine’s 2009 “Golf Course Architect of the Year” and has designed courses throughout the United States and around the world. He has been entrusted with renovations of The Country Club of Brookline, Fishers Island Club, Los Angeles North and a host of other classic venues. And earlier this year he was commissioned to build 27 new holes at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. Needless to say, to team up with Gil, in association with Gil Hanse Golf Design, and our other partners from The Larkin Group for such a landmark project is a true honor. And for all of you history buffs, 2016 will be the first time since 1904 that golf will be contested in the Games so being a part of this particular design project brings even greater significance for the opportunities this presents for the game of golf locally in Brazil as well as globally.
Amy Alcott, who won five major championships over a stellar career, and Charlie Sifford, who broke the PGA’s color barrier, will be inducted into the SCGA Hall of Fame on October 25, 2011.
Check out the fabulous video the SCGA produced for Amy’s induction:
Amy Alcott is among “100 voters from 17 countries who evaluated a ballot of 464 candidates to determine Golf.com’s Top 100 Courses in the U.S. and the Top 100 Courses in the World.”
You can read the rest of the article and the full list of panelists at Golf.com.
An in-depth article and focus on Amy in the “Now on the Tee” section of FORE Magazine‘s July 2011 issue.
“For much of the early years in her Hall of Fame LPGA career, Amy Alcott was known as the “Homegrown Pro”. The label was some writer’s concoction, but it was fitting because it was so true.”
A mention of Amy’s famous leap into Poppie’s Pond appears on the Golf Digest in an article by Jaime Diaz on the five most poignant moments in golf. Jaime describes some of the historic moments as “formalized links to the past (that) provide necessary reinforcement to the idea that the more the game changes, the more it stays the same.”
Amy had the pleasure of attending the 120th Carnegie Hall Gala in New York on April 13th. Pictured here are Molly Ryan, Amy Alcott and Sanford “Sandy” Weill, chairman of the board of Carnegie Hall.
As I look back on the fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am, I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am and how pleased I am with how everything went, especially the great results for charity. We raised nearly $180,000 for charity – LA’s BEST and Park Century School, our official beneficiaries, as well as for the Dinah Shore Foundation. To have such great support from my friends and fellow LPGA pros, to celebrate the history of Dinah Shore and the Kraft Nabisco Championship and to raise such important funds for charity made this a win-win weekend for sure. Thank you to all of my friends, family and fans for your support of this inaugural event. We look forward to what the future holds. Download the updated news release PDF
Well, it’s tournament week now! We are just about ready to tee it up in our first fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am (April 2) and we’ve just added 4 more players to the field list. We are up to 21 teams now. I’m so excited that the interest has been so high for our first-ever event. My friends Susie Berning, Hall of Famer JoAnne Carner, Cindy Figg-Currier and Nancy Scranton are scheduled to play in the event. Come out to Mission Hills (in Rancho Mirage) on Saturday to cheer on the stars and legends of the LPGA. Check out the full list of players in the attached release.
We are closing in on the start of our big event and I’m so excited to announce the addition of two more players to the field for the fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am. Fans will have the chance to see Liselotte Neumann and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc tee it up in celebration of 40 years of the Kraft Nabisco Championship. I am so excited they will join us for what I know will be a memorable event for everyone. I hope you’ll make plans to come to Palm Springs on April 2 to watch us in the fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am as well as today’s stars in the third round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Hope to see you soon.
Legends. Hall of Famers. Stars of the LPGA. Where are they now? Well, on April 2, 2011, you can see 18 of the best players in the history of the LPGA — my friends and fellow competitors — tee it up in the “fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am”. My good friend Tim Mason (of Fresh & Easy) and I will co-host this special event to honor the late Dinah Shore, my long-time
friend and great supporter of women’s golf, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the event Dinah started 40 years ago. I am so excited that Kathy Whitworth, Pat Bradley, Nancy Lopez, Patty Sheehan, Kathy Whitworth and so many others will join me for this special event. We will play this pro-am during the third round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship. I hope you can come out to Mission Hills on April 2, to support this wonderful event and cheer on your favorite stars of the LPGA — past and present.
“... is one of golf’s most gifted and intelligent
professionals and perhaps in all of sports.”
- Spoken by the late sports commentator Jim McKay during the broadcast of the 1980 US Women’s Open on her way to victory
Legends. Hall of Famers. Stars of the LPGA. Where are they now? Well, on April 2, 2011, you can see 18 of the best players in the history of the LPGA — my friends and fellow competitors — tee it up in the “fresh&easy Dinah Shore Charity Pro-Am”. My good friend Tim Mason (of Fresh & Easy) and I will co-host this special event to honor the late Dinah Shore, my long-time