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 “Golf is challenging because it’s different every day. Sometimes you take a lot of steps forward and then you take a lot of steps back,” Alcott told the juniors. “The key to being consistent is practice.” Outside of Tiger Woods, Alcott may be the most successful golfer to grow up playing Southern California’s public courses. As a young girl in Santa Monica, Alcott fell in love with golf but didn’t belong to a club, which made practicing and playing more difficult. But with the blessing of her parents, Alcott honed her skills at “Alcott Golf and Country Club,” a number of sunken cans that doubled as golf holes in the family’s front yard. “All I did on my front lawn was chip about a thousand balls a day,” said Alcott, who agreed to put on the free clinic at the Tregnan facility because it’s named after Marty Tregnan, a public golf advocate. “Out of rose bushes, out of the ivy, off some neighbors’ lawns. I broke some windows. In fact, I broke my own window.” Alcott played her first junior tournament when she was 9 years old, shooting 54 for nine holes at Arrowhead Country Club. When her older brother, Bruce, questioned why she didn’t finish first, it motivated Alcott to play better. Four months later, she won her first tournament. At 18, she joined the LPGA Tour. “It was a different place and time. There weren’t as many college opportunities,” Alcott said. “By the time I was 18 I was mentally and physically ready to play on the LPGA Tour.” Alcott estimates that she’s taken 40 trips to Japan and played in tournaments all over Asia, England and Scotland. “Golf afforded me the wonderful education of traveling and meeting people all around the world,” she said. “It was a great opportunity.” Alcott, who turns 50 on February 22, remains busy these days. She co-designed Indian Canyons Golf Club in Palm Springs, can be heard on the radio talk show Golfchix, and is writing her second book, “Golf Lessons, Life Lessons.” “Every round of golf is like opening a book,” she told the junior golfers. “It’s got a different plot, it’s got different characters, it has a whole different story. There are a lot of chapters. You have to be patient to let that book evolve.” |
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