RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – 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.