Amy is proud to announce that she is Cresa’s new Brand Ambassador. A Cresa advertisement featuring Amy will be appearing in C-Suite Quarterly magazine this spring. Cresa has also organized a drawing with a round of golf with Amy as the grand prize. Be sure to look for it!
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Alcott excited about hometown Tour stop at Riviera
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Golfing legend Amy Alcott pairs up with City of Hope
Amy Alcott, a member of the World Golf and LPGA Tour Halls of Fame, has embarked on a new partnership, this time with City of Hope. Alcott will launch her new role as City of Hope’s first-ever golf ambassador at the upcoming PGA TOUR event, the Northern Trust Open, to be held Feb. 14-17 at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. City of Hope is the new official charity of the Northern Trust Open, one of the longest-running and most respected tournaments on the PGA TOUR.
At the Northern Trust Open, not only will Alcott greet golfing fans and tournament attendees at City of Hope’s hospitality venue, but she’ll also host the City of Hope/Be the Match putting challenge for tournament patrons. Be The Match is a registry operated by the National Marrow Donor Program that finds bone marrow and blood stem cell matches for patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening blood diseases.
“As a long-time supporter of City of Hope, I am honored to be joining the City of Hope team as golf ambassador,” Alcott said. “It is wonderful to be able to use the sport of golf as a vehicle to connect with more audiences and to use this platform to help raise awareness and funding for the amazing work that City of Hope does.
Alcott has won 32 tournaments worldwide, including five major championships. She is celebrated as one of the most creative shot makers in the modern era and is credited with starting one of golf’s greatest traditions: jumping into the 18th-greenside lake at Mission Hills Country Club, host site of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, an LPGA major. Alcott has transitioned her professional playing career into writing a book and delving more into her love of golf course architecture, a true passion of hers; she is part of the team selected to design the golf course for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her second book, “The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life,” was published by Simon and Schuster in March 2009 and features interviews with long-time friends Bill Clinton, Jack Nicholson and Annika Sorenstam among others.
Alcott’s new role with City of Hope is an evolution of the relationship dating back more than a decade when she hosted an official LPGA Tour event in Southern California that benefitted City of Hope. Alcott also has long worked with City of Hope at top-tier golf events. Now, as part of the first formal agreement between the golfing legend and City of Hope, Alcott will host golf clinics and tee off with donors at key functions of the organization, starting with the Northern Trust Open.
“City of Hope is extremely pleased to have a legend like Amy Alcott on board, and we know this partnership will be a deeply rewarding experience for us both,” said Steven Martin, Vice President, Marketing, for City of Hope. “Amy’s skill, her passion for the sport and her commitment to the great work we do will help us share the City of Hope message with new audiences.”
About City of Hope
City of Hope is a leading research, treatment and education center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Designated as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest honor bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, City of Hope’s research and treatment protocols advance care throughout the nation. City of Hope is based in Southern California and is ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” in cancer by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1913, City of Hope is a pioneer in the fields of bone marrow transplantation and genetics.
Feature Interview with Amy on Golf Club Atlas
An in-depth interview of Amy by Joel Stewart has been published on the Golf Club Atlas website. Amy explains her inspirations, her thought process, and her methodical approach to designing unique and challenging golf courses as well as some insight into her own history as a champion golfer.
“I’ve always viewed golf as an art form and I’ve always prided myself as being a shot maker so I appreciate the artistic nature of the game. I approach it with an appreciation and gratitude for the game.”
Winning never gets old
World Golf Hall of Famer Amy Alcott and Kathryn Imrie win the 2012 LPGA Teaching Divison Team Championship at Palm Valley CC in Palm Desert, California.
Alcott offers Palestinian teen game-changing advice
Amy is featured in an article written by Adam Schupak appearing in Golf Week:
“Amy Alcott called it a ‘life-changing experience.’ As former NBA players Brian Scalabrine and Will Perdue put Israeli and Palestinian teenage boys and girls through their paces on the court, Alcott met Doha Amla, 17, a Palestinian girl who dreams of being the first Arab in the WNBA.”
Pros Head to Israel to Spread Golf
World Golf Hall of Fame member Amy Alcott, PGA Tour players Hunter Mahan and Michael Thompson and instructor Sean Foley visited Israel from the 11-20th of November in order to spread the gospel of golf.
“Sports can be a powerful tool to open dialogue and lead to better understanding. With that hope in mind, the pros will host golf clinics with locals, Palestinian and Israeli youth as well as war veterans.”
Article Written by Amy in the Daily Beast
Read Amy’s article about the Augusta National allowing women to become members in the Daily Beast.
“Now that Augusta National is allowing women to become members, I’m just waiting for my invitation to come in the mail. The club was always going to take this step. It was just a matter of when, not if. I don’t think people function well under ultimatums, and it’s a private club, so it’s entitled to do whatever it wants to do. But it’s really about doing the right thing.”
Meet Gil Hanse, Head of Amy’s 2016 Olympic Golf Course Design Team
Meet Gil Hanse, leader of the design team that beat out some of the biggest names in golf to win the design bid for Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic golf course. Amy is also interviewed, offering some insights to the team’s vision for the Olympic course:
“… the legacy that we want to leave behind, to inspire and encourage Brazilian youngsters to take up the game. We want to create a new generation of golfers there. Part of this whole design plan is a golf academy that Gil and I designed together, and hopefully it can become a state-of-the-art center.”
The Official Rio 2016 Course Design Award Announcement
Hanse Golf Course Design Selected by Rio 2016™ to Design Golf Venue For the Olympic Games
“As it marks the return of golf to the Olympic Games after over a century of absence, this course represents the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the sport. It will enable Rio to host important events in the international calendar and it will be an example of sustainability and preservation of an environmentally protected area,” said the President of Rio 2016™, Carlos Arthur Nuzman. “This course will be an excellent facility for the practice and development of golf and will inspire millions of youth across Brazil and the globe. We look forward to welcoming the athletes and spectators to the course in 2016.”