1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore

The 1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 31 to April 3 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 17th edition of the Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the sixth as a major championship.

1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore
Tournament information
DatesMarch 31 – April 3, 1988
LocationRancho Mirage, California
Course(s)Mission Hills Country Club
(Dinah Shore Tourn. Course)
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
FormatStroke play – 72 holes
Statistics
Par72
Length6,308 yards (5,768 m)[1]
Field110 players, 79 after cut [2]
Cut150 (+6)
Prize fund$500,000
Winner's share$80,000
Champion
Amy Alcott
274 (−14)
Rancho Mirage
Location in the United States
Rancho
Mirage
Location in California

Amy Alcott won the second of her three Dinah Shores, two strokes ahead of runner-up Colleen Walker.[3][4] With consecutive scores of 66 on Friday and Saturday, she entered the final round with a four-stroke lead.[5]

Alcott and caddy Bill Kurre started the tradition of jumping into "Poppie's Pond" upon winning.[3][4] After her third win 1991, they repeated the plunge, including tournament host Dinah Shore.[6] It was not fully embraced by others until 1994, when Donna Andrews made the leap, followed by Nanci Bowen the next year, and it became an annual tradition.[7][8]

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

PlayerCountryYear wonR1R2R3R4TotalTo parFinish
Amy Alcott United States198371666671274−141
Juli Inkster United States198474737069286−2T12
Betsy King United States198777707174292+4T35
Pat Bradley United States198672757777301+13T74

Source:[4]

Missed the cut

PlayerCountryYear wonR1R2TotalTo par
Alice Miller United States19857776153+9

Source:[2]

Final leaderboard

Sunday, April 3, 1988

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney ($)
1Amy Alcott United States71-66-66-71=274−1480,000
2Colleen Walker United States73-65-69-69=276−1242,000
3Rosie Jones United States73-67-68-71=279−926,000
4Caroline Keggi (a) United States75-71-66-69=281−70
T5Marta Figueras-Dotti Spain70-69-70-73=282−618,000
Nancy Lopez United States74-69-70-69=282
T7Dawn Coe Canada77-67-70-70=284−414,430
Jane Geddes United States75-73-66-70=284
Dottie Pepper United States76-71-70-67=284
T10Debbie Massey United States72-68-73-72=285−310,643
Jan Stephenson Australia69-72-70-74=285

(a) - denotes amateur
Source:[1][4]

References

  1. "LPGA Dinah Shore". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). April 4, 1988. p. 2B.
  2. "Alcott moves into lead". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 2, 1988. p. 5C.
  3. Diaz, Jaime (April 11, 1988). "Alcott, Shore enough". Sports Illustrated. p. 72.
  4. "Alcott takes Dinah Shore, then takes victory plunge". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 4, 1988. p. 2C.
  5. "Alcott fires another 66 to open gap". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 3, 1988. p. 4B.
  6. Florence, Mal (April 1, 1991). "Alcott repeats her win and her dive". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. 2C.
  7. "Bowen's first LPGA victory a major one". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 27, 1995. p. 2B.
  8. Crouse, Karen (April 2, 2011). "At women's Masters, plunge in Poppie's Pond is victory lap". New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2018.

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