Kraft Nabisco Championship
Mission Hills Country Club
Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Special Former Champion Press Conference
April 1, 2011
FORMER KRAFT CHAMPIONS: Amy Alcott, Kathy Whitworth, Betsy King, Pat Bradley
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Amy Alcott, Kathy Whitworth, Betsy King, Pat Bradley
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GABE CODDING: Tournament Director, Kraft Nabisco Championship: We want to welcome you guys today. My name is Gabe Codding. I’m the tournament director for the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and I’m very excited today because up here we have eight wins of the Kraft Nabisco Championship represented up here, and it was funny because Amy came into our office. We met with Amy back in probably June or July, and she says, you know ‑‑ when I was sitting with my team and we’re thinking about what do we want to do for 40 years in staging and we’re throwing around concepts, wouldn’t it be great to have all the past champions come back, wouldn’t it be great to ‑‑ what kind of celebration could we have? And then lo and behold, Amy comes into our office and says, man, I got this idea, I got this concept, here’s what I want to do.
And to see it from what happened on the conference table months ago to see what it’s become now is very, very exciting. So I want to introduce just when you look at what happened 40 years ago here when David Foster and Dinah Shore sat down to create such an amazing event.
And this is my 15th event and I’m still a rookie compared to all the history and everything that’s happened here. But I want to welcome here today for our round table, I want to welcome on the end here Pat Bradley.
PAT BRADLEY: Thank you.
GABE CODDING: Who won our 1986 championship. Welcome here today. Thank you very much.
PAT BRADLEY: Thank you.
GABE CODDING: Betsy King, one of only three of our three‑time champions that won here first in 1987, won again in 1990, and then won my second year here in 1997, so I’ve actually had the privilege to see in person one of her amazing wins. So we have three‑time champion Betsy King here today.
We have a legend and one of the heroes of the game, amazing stats. We’d be here all day talking about it, but want to welcome Kathy Whitworth ‑‑ I’m sorry. I’m going to have to say this is the year I was born, 1977. I’m sorry.
KATHY WHITWORTH: Why?
GABE CODDING: An amazing year on a lot of fronts, but Kathy Whitworth, champion in 1977 and a hero of the game, and then Amy Alcott. What’s really resonated with me, and I’ve been saying this in different interviews, I sat with Yani Tseng a couple months ago and we did our media day and we did some book pal readings, and she said, “I’ve dreamed of two things growing up in Taiwan. I always wanted to be ei
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