Amy Alcott - "Tour Bus Lip Synch with Kathy Whitworth" SHORT TRACK

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

You didn't mind traveling to to get your golf in around the world. And uh there's probably some stories we're gonna want to hear about uh uh relative to that, like you being known as the tour bus DJ, for example. Yeah. Which we'll we'll we'll come we'll come back to that. But uh uh as you mentioned, you joined.

Amy Alcott 0:39

Because I would show up on these bus trips, these long bus trips in Japan, and have my cassettes. I'd before I flew over on Japan Airlines, I'd line up the cassettes for the long bus trips. And we've got a long story, a lot of long stories about those.

Mike Gonzalez 0:58

So you'd put your set list together ahead of time, huh, with all your cassettes?

Amy Alcott 1:01

Oh, yeah, it was the age of disco.

Mike Gonzalez 1:03

So there you go. How do you forget, right?

Amy Alcott 1:08

Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 1:09

Was there dancing on the bus then too when you did?

Amy Alcott 1:11

Lots of dancing on the bus, and you'd have two hours in the bus from the hotel, and then two hours or three hours coming back, and a train. And uh near the end of it, I can remember Pat Bradley saying to me, Alcott, when you don't come over on these trips anymore, that's it for me. You know, you kept us all you kept us all entertained, and there was somebody I wasn't a drinker, but you know, much, and but the a lot of those gals consumed mass quantities of beer, you know. You'd get done, you'd you'd get done, you'd be have been up since five taking a bus out there, played your round.

Mike Gonzalez 1:55

I mean, this wasn't the long day.

Amy Alcott 2:01

Lots of beers, and there was a always a bucket at the back of the bus, you know. It was crazy.

Mike Gonzalez 2:11

You would get the party started then, huh?

Amy Alcott 2:13

Yeah, I could be up at the front and we'd be dancing, and there's a famous story about we had a lip syncing contest. Um and Kathy Whitworth didn't have a partner. You know, people would pair up with their friends, so they'd pick a song and you'd come up with the microphone at the bus and you'd sing whatever. You know, whatever your song was, and then everybody would kind of judge you. And uh and then they'd we'd vote. Well, the last singing group was Kathy Whitworth and Amy Alcott in What's Love Got to Do With It? So we'd have Tina Turner, you know, we'd start start that and would hold the microphone, and I mean to this day, to this day everybody remembers Alcott and Whitworth and what's love got to do with it. Um and I had picked Kathy when I was un inducted in the Hall of Fame. Um historically, I wanted her to be my person who presenter. And we had a big laugh about that. Just you know, a lot of history with um, you know, an older player, uh, a player who's historic and golf history with all her wins.

Intro Music 3:44

Oh, yeah.

Amy Alcott 3:45

But a real a real piece of work. And but sh there was that part of wit that, you know, we used to joke with her about her hair, you know, because every hair was in place, and she'd probably use a can of hairspray. And uh there was a Clarol ad on TV about a about a wind tunnel test. Try this new Clairol product. And we used to joke with Wint about, oh, that's Kathy Whitworth, man. Every hair was in place. It was like a it was like a crash helmet, you know.

Mike Gonzalez 4:22

I think I saw her hair move. It must be a five club wind.

Amy Alcott 4:26

Yeah. So yeah, I miss those times. They were all pretty, pretty funny, you know.

Mike Gonzalez 4:35

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Intro Music 4:56

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