In 1992 he became the first man in the history of the AAU to ever to win the Mr. California and Mr. Natural California in the same year. Drug-free for life, La Cour first appeared on the national scene in 1994, when he won the Musclemania Natural Bodybuilding Championships on ESPN television. He became one of the top amateur drug-free bodybuilders in the nation by becoming the 1995 NPC Team Universe Heavyweight National Champion and earning a spot on the five-man USA Bodybuilding Team competing in the much-heralded Mr. Universe contest.

He has accomplished much as a writer, contributing to several national and international bodybuilding publications over the last few years. La Cour is currently a featured writer for All Natural Muscular Development, with two monthly columns "Skip La Cour's Natural Bodybuilding Digest" and "Thinking Big." He is also a writer for Great Lakes Fitness Guide, Steele Jungle, and Natural Muscle Magazine. For over two years, he wrote "Lean and Clean," a monthly column in Ironman magazine and was a contributor to Advanced Supplementation Techniques, a nationwide newsletter produced by AST Research. Skip is a contributor to the online bodybuilding magazine Digital Physique.

La Cour has been an endorsed bodybuilder for Met-Rx, AST Research, and TWINLAB nutritional supplements. He has also starred in a national television commercial while appearing in several others.