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and welcome to life Uncorked today's
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segment we call aging like a fine wine I
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am sitting here with Amy alcot she's an
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american professional golfer and Golf
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Course designer welcome to the show Amy
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how are you happy to be here Karen thank
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you so this show is all about people
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doing extraordinary things at all times
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of their life and you are no exception
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to that uh tell us a little bit about
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the story of how you decided to become a
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well I was a child of Television Growing
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Up in Southern California as you well
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know and um The Golf shows would come on
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after the cartoons on TV and I probably
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sensed as a young girl of eight nine
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years old that I was kind of a loner I
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loved all sports I was a little tom girl
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and um I saw this Golf shows on TV and I
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was just fascinated by the art form of
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it you know it was different than than
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football or baseball you had to do it
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with um you didn't have to do it with
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anyone and I just uh took a real
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knacking and love for it and the pursuit
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of um Perfection soon followed you know
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I grew up putting chipping and putting
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into Soup cans in my front yard oh
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without without parents that played golf
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and that was my um that was my thing you
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know go it's like uh what tennis is your
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racket golf became my bag oh well I I
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love that and obviously you're very very
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good at your bag you've won five major
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championships you you've played in if I
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get this right 29 LPGA Tour events no
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I've played in hundreds of LPGA
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tournaments I just upate your wiki page
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Amy you gota upate yeah no I've won over
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29 tournaments wow and five majors and I
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1975 into the kind of mid mid90s I never
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used the term retire but um I traveled
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the world I became you know I went out
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on the LPGA Tour I was rookie of the
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year and then um I became you know uh
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you know one of the best to play the
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game because of my love and um desire to
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to be the best and in fact you are a
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member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
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and and I find this fascinating and I
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want to hear about this part of the
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architectural team that designed the
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golf course for the 2016 Summer Olympics
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in Rio de Janeiro what was that like
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well you know um as I said I was
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attracted to golf as an art form I was
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younger and what what really d drove me
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is playing golf courses all around the
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world as I you know became started to
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travel from the Philippines to Canada to
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Australia to South Carolina and seeing
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different golf courses and um so I would
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make notes about great golf courses and
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what the golf holes look like and um so
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I have gotten into golf architecture
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golf design golf Consulting I do it um
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and uh you know there's not a lot of
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women in it although there should be
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more right um but I worked with Gil Hans
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who's a very fine architect and we built
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the and designed the course for the
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Olympics in Rio in 2016 so I hope to do
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more of it I really it's something I
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really enjoy I have a uh a I'm very
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creative about it so what drives you at
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at this stage in in life what keeps you
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going well um I think you know just
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because you get into your 60s doesn't
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mean that life's over you know I think
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you get better and I never use the word
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as I said retire um I I have this drive
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I think like a lot of people to remain
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relevant um you know I've made uh a
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living and a a name playing golf um but
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it's not all I am and I hope to like I
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like to give back to the game to Junior
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Golf growing the game of golf growing it
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with women I'm involved with the first
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and various different which is a program
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that helps young underprivileged kids
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are learn the core values of of life
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through golf um so I do lots of stuff I
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do you know charity golf events I do
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outings for corporations I still work
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with companies I am a representative of
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a company called employco which is a
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large HR company um and um and um so I'm
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enjoying that um you know I've got to
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know a lot of people have a lot of
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contacts and um you're enjoying life
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you're enjoy I totally enjoy life I wear
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a pen that says living my best life so
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there you go so if somebody were to come
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up to you Amy somebody you don't know
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and they they see everything that you've
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done and continue to do and they're
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looking for some inspiration that they
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can maybe do something different new the
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same as they go into the next stage I
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know I don't say retire either it's just
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another stage it's the next next right
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what inspiration could you give them
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should they do it should they just do it
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or what do you say well I find that a
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lot of people are very fear-based
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they're afraid you know they're afraid
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to take risks take challenges put
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themselves out there I mean but most
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people do that at one phase or another
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and you either you know and
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all you can do is put one foot in front
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of the other and if something at another
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phase of Life finds you find fascinating
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to learn more about it I was just
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listening to an interview with Bob Iger
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at Disney talking about you know he
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didn't expect to come back to work at
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Disney but he's there and he doesn't
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want to be there for forever because
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there's things he wants to learn about
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and I think that's this innate Quest we
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have you know yeah agreed and think
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what's that saying Feel the fear do it
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anyways yeah well that's a good line
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I've never heard that but I like that
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feel the fear do it anyways that's how I
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live my life um so I guess the last
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question I really want to know is what's
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Alcott what's next well I'm open to
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whatever kind of comes my way um you
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know um I always live by the adage dance
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with who BR you you know I know golf I
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know the people with in the industry I
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still love to play golf um I don't do it
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as much for a full-time living anymore
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living out of a suitcase traveling
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around the world competing um so I still
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love it and want to be a part of it but
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I don't know you know uh what will
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happen um um I think my story needs to
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be told a little more because I think
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it's um a more it's there's an
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inspiration there for young people
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totally and that's why I wanted you on
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um what we didn't say in the beginning
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is we went to high school together and
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it's so fun to be able to uh reconnect
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with people from a couple years ago you
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know yeah and I mean we're getting older
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right Karen we're getting better we're
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not just getting older we are getting
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better amen Amir I wanted to say thank
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you for sharing your story with us you
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are an inspiration and I do agree with
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you you need to get out there a little
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more your story and that's what we're
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going to do for you here for those of
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you who are watching right now live or
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on replay we know that you have a choice
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as to where you spend your time you
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chose to spend it with Amy and I today
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and we are thrilled go out give somebody
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an awesome day and say goodbye to Amy
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goodbye Amy byebye and see you next time
