Rosie Jones is one of several Tour professionals featured at the Clinics each year, serving as "hostess" for the day and providing a 15-minute swing exhibition so attendees can see how the pros do it up close and personal. A 13-time champion on the LPGA Tour and twice a winner on The Legends Tour, official senior tour of the LPGA, Jones certainly has the creds as well as the talent to hold their attention. She also recently started her own traveling academy called "Rosie Jones Golf Getaways," so she knows just what new and seasoned amateurs are looking for in terms of advice on the lesson tee.

Jones is one of the most popular LPGA golfers of all time. She began her golf career at the age of 11 and had an impressive amateur record, collecting three New Mexico Junior Amateur titles as well as the New Mexico State Championship. In 1982, Jones joined the LPGA and claimed her first victory in 1987 at the Rail Charity Golf Classic. She won a total of 13 LPGA titles and earned over $8 million in prize money. Jones competed on seven U.S. Solheim Cup teams. Recently, Jones has continued her winning ways on the Legends Tour with two victories, including the 2007 Legends Tour Open Championship. Jones was also a member of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 U.S. Handa Cup teams. Rosie can also be seen and heard on The Golf Channel as a golf analyst.

We caught up with Rosie at a recent Legends Tour stop and asked her a few questions to help you get to know her better.

Which club in your bag is your favorite?
I have three favorites: "Big Chief", that’s my driver. "Fat Baby", that’s my lob wedge. And "Lucy", that’s my putter. 

Name golfers who have influenced your career or that you admire.
You know there’s a lot of players out on tour that are my inspiration, I think Joanne Carner and Kathy Whitworth, a lot of the older players that I watched when I was young, you know a rookie player, it was a lot of fun and I think those two players are biggies on my list.

What is the best tip you can give to an amateur golfer?
Alignment, alignment, alignment, always.

What is your favorite golf course to play?
Favorite golf course on tour would be Mission Hills, always had a good time there.

Do you think a hole in one is pure luck or pure skill?
Well it’s kind of skill because you’re aiming at it and it’s a little lucky because it’s just a little hole and all that air space.

If you could have one special power in golf, how would you enhance
your game?
I’m looking for 20 yards, I’ve been looking for it for 20 years or more so I’d say if that was super human I’d like to hit an 8 iron like Tiger Woods  you know like 185 yard 8 iron sounds good to me.

How many pairs of golf shoes do you have?
1, no maybe 3 or 4.

What's your favorite golf memory?
Probably beating Nancy Lopez for my 1^st golf tournament down at the rail in 1987, coming down the last birdie hole, she missed, I made it.

What is your favorite thing about golf?
I like practicing a lot, I know that’s weird, but I like being outside, I like to work at the game by myself but I also like being around my friends on tour and sit back and talk about shots on the practicing range, that kind of stuff.

Name the 3 people (historical or current) you would most like to have dinner with.
Well Tine Turner for sure, my little brother who I lost 25 years ago, I’d love to sit down with him one more time, and probably Bobby Jones, I think that’d be really fun.

What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
When I got on tour one of the older gals told me, “You know your game better than anybody, so really stick with that intuition, what you came with, what you got on Tour with is really going to be your bread and butter. So stick with that, work on that, and that’s what I did, you know I always put a lot of faith in what I felt and the decisions I make in my career and everything, and I think that really helped me.

If you were not a professional golfer, what would you have become?
Oh I would definitely be an investigator like a criminal investigator or a thief, one side or the other, one side of the line or other. Probably an investigator. I like to be the good guy.

What is your drink of choice after a round of golf?
I drink Michelob Light, and that hasn’t changed for several years. 
 

Learn more about Rosie Jones and other Legends at www.thelegendstour.com.