Year-by-year look at Poppie’s Pond plunges

Overcome by excitement, Amy Alcott told caddie Bill Kurre to ‘let it rip.’ They two are the first ever to jump into Poppie’s Pond after winning the LPGA major in what was the splash heard ‘round the world. (AP Images)

Juli Inkster did not repeat Alcott’s move from the previous year and thus, the tradition had not yet caught on. (Getty Images)

Betsy King won the Kraft Nabisco Championship (then called the Nabisco Dinah Shore) for the second time, but did not dive in. (Getty Images)

Amy Alcott again jumped into Poppie’s Pond after winning the LPGA major alongside her caddie and Dinah Shore.

Dottie Mochrie (Pepper) won in a playoff at the lake-less 10th hole and thus, despite there being drama, none of it involved a dive into the pond. (Getty Images)

Helen Alfredsson won, but didn’t take the leap. (Getty Images)

Donna Andrews became the second winner to leap into Poppie’s Pond, six years after Amy Alcott first did. (Getty Images)

Nanci Bowen took a spirited leap into the pond. (Getty Images)

Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan cartwheeled on the green after sinking her winning putt, then proceeded to cartwheel her way into the water. (Getty Images)

Betsy King wins her third Nabisco Dinah Shore and finally takes the plunge. (Getty Images)

Non-swimmer Pat Hurst wades in, which drove the crowd wild. (Getty Images)

This time around, Dottie Pepper dives right in. (Getty Images)

Australian Karrie Webb wastes no time diving ‘Down Under.’ (Getty Images)

Annika Sorenstam dove with enthusiasm into the lake just nine days after walking on water by shooting the first (and only) 59 in LPGA history. (Getty Images)

Annika Sorenstam celebrated her back-to-back victory (first to do so since Sandra Post in 1978 and 1979) by wading into the lake with caddie Terry McNamara and daughter Reilly McNamara. (Getty Images)

Making sure Patricia Meunier–Lebouc kept to tradition, husband Antoine Lebouc carried/threw Patricia into the pond for her victory swim. (Getty Images)

Grace Park was Grace in motion as she and her caddie dove in. (Getty Images)

Annika Sorenstam went for her third ‘SorenSwim,’ when she took her sister Charlotta (left) along for the leap. (Getty Images)

For her second major championship victory at the Kraft Nabisco, Karrie Webb and caddie Mike Paterson do a double cannonball. (Getty Images)

Just ten months after graduating from high school, Morgan Pressel took the victory plunge at age 18 with grandmother Evelyn Krickstein and caddie Jon Yarbrough. (Getty Images)

Lorena Ochoa celebrated her second consecutive major win with a live mariachi band and the largest pool party yet. (Getty Images)

Brittany Lincicome held nothing back for her leap into Poppie’s Pond after securing her first major. (Getty Images)

A non-swimmer, Yani Tseng flashed a smile while taking a “leap of faith” into Poppie’s Pond. She was still smiling a short time later when a 7.2 earthquake interrupted her victory press conference in the Media Center. (Getty Images)

Stacy Lewis made a huge splash by making the Kraft Nabisco Championship her first LPGA victory. Her mother (second from right) also broke her leg on the jump. (Getty Images)

The water may have been cold (Sun Young Yoo noted later, “I didn’t know it was going to be that cold. As soon as I ran in there, I was like, oh, that’s cold. It was great.”), but Yoo was hot that week en route to winning the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship. (Getty Images)

Inbee Park took the plunge into Poppie’s Pond to kick off what turned out to be quite an exciting year for Park, winning three majors in a row. (Getty Images)

Lexi Thompson took the plunge into Poppies Pond after breaking through for her first major at just 19 years old, fending off Michelle Wie in the final round of the Kraft Nabisco. Her caddie may have upstaged her on the jump however, flipping his way into the water. (Getty Images)

Brittany Lincicome jumps in the water with from left to right, her caddie Missy Pederson, her fianc Dewald Gouws and her father Tom Lincicome after winning the ANA Inspiration on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club on April 5, 2015 in Rancho Mirage, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)

Lydia Ko of New Zealand leads the leap into Poppie’s Pond at the 18th green after her victory in the final round of the 2016 ANA Inspiration at the Mission Hills Country Club on April 3, 2016 in Rancho Mirage, California. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)

So Yeon Ryu of South Korea jumps in the water with her caddie Tom Watson, her mother Kwang-Ja Cho, her sister So-Myung Ryu and guest Sang-Jin Jang after winning the ANA Inspiration on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club on April 2, 2017 in Rancho Mirage, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)

Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden jumps into the water with her fiance Daniel Taylor and her parents Jan and Gunilla Lindberg after winning the the ANA Inspiration on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club on April 2, 2018 in Rancho Mirage, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)

Jin Young Ko of Korea, her caddie David Brooker, and her agent Soo jin Choi, leap into Poppie’s Pond next to the 18th green after her win during of the ANA Inspiration on the Dinah Shore course at Mission Hills Country Club on April 07, 2019 in Rancho Mirage, California. Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)