On the women's side, Glenna Collett set the standard, and subsequent champions included founder Marion Hollins, Joyce Wethered of England, and the great Babe Didrikson. In 1986, the U.S. Women's Amateur was held at Pasatiempo, where the best amateur women players from all over the world elected to dedicate their respective rounds in memory of Miss Hollins. Today Pasatiempo is consistently ranked among the top 100 courses in the country and one of the top 25 public access courses. The course still possesses those qualities that both enhance and confuse a player's efforts to be objective and strategic. Distances do not compute.
Undulations are misread.
There are awesome sights that interfere with a player's concentration. It encourages emotional turmoil while at the same time displaying a harmony with nature that causes golfers to argue that there are few places more breathtaking and challenging. We hit balls into his yard, and play fairway shots off the ground where his ashes were spread. To learn that we have been above the pin on his most severe greens at his most rugged site provides a measure of absolution for all the little golf sins we have committed. After living all these years with the tensions of having to play each shot so as to make it possible to get the desired results with the next, to read that Pasatiempo is one of his most personal designs lifts a heavy burden from our shoulders.