Golf great Amy Alcott was born to swing a club.
She grew up in a house where golf was watched on TV and where her love of sports was nourished. As a child, she noticed that "the golfers on TV were all men," said the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and World Hall of Famer in an exclusive interview with Lifescript CEO Ron Caporale, at the Toshiba Classic at the Newport Beach Country Club on Thursday.
Recognized as the LPGA's finest and most creative shot-maker for her go-for-the-pin style in 33 pro victories, young Alcott started out "pushing balls into soup cans and chipping balls into sprinklers in my back yard," she said.
She joined the LPGA tour in 1975, qualifying for her first season with the Dinah Shore Classic, now called the Kraft Nabisco Classic. She was only 19.
"I was the U.S. junior champion at 18 years old," she notes. "I wanted to take my stuff out on tour."
She was, she adds, one of only a few women on the courses.
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