Marion Hollins
Marion Hollins (December 3, 1892 – August 27, 1944) was an American amateur golfer. She is known as an athlete and as a golf course developer, one of the only known female golf course developers in history. She won the 1921 U.S. Women's Amateur and was runner-up in 1913. She also had many other amateur wins. She was the captain of the first U.S. Curtis Cup team in 1932. Biography. Hollins was born in East Islip, New York. Her father, H. B. Hollins, owned a Wall Street brokerage firm, H.B. Hollins & Co. In her time, she helped  develop three world-class golf courses: The Women's National Golf and Tennis Club in Glen Head, Long Island, New York; Cypress Point Club, and Pasatiempo Golf Club. Hollins was responsible for hiring Alister MacKenzie to design Cypress Point and Pasatiempo; she was ultimately the reason Bobby Jones hired MacKenzie to design Augusta National Golf Club. Death. Hollins died from complications of a stroke on August 27, 1944 at the age of 51 in Pacific Grove, California. Legacy. Hollins was inducted posthumously into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Golf and Historic Recognition Categories with  the Class of 2002. She will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2021. The information below was submitted to the World Golf Hall of Fame which resulted in Miss Hollins induction to the World Golf Hall of Fame, class of 2022 (which includes Tiger Woods, Susie Maxwell Berning, and Tim Finchem.) Contributions of Marion Hollins. As a competitive golfer, Hollins was considered an equal to prominent women amateurs already inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Yet it is through her pioneering contributions as a woman in the development of golf courses like Cypress Point , Pebble Beach and Pasatiempo that she stands unmatched a century later. Hollins was a decorated, multi-sport athlete who headlined the generation before Babe Zaharias (WGHOF 1974). Like Babe, her greatest passion was golf. Because of her success in both course development and competitive golf, Hollins remains a role model for women seeking to make their own distinctive mark on the game today. Her accomplishments continue to resonate as we look forward to several golf events scheduled in the next few years. The 2021 WGHOF Induction Ceremony will coincide with the 100th anniversary of Hollins' victory in the 1921 U.S.  Women's Amateur at Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, New Jersey. In 2023, Pebble Beach will host its first U.S. Women's Open, which also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Hollins' victory in the first Pebble Beach Championship for Women, a competition she established to support her task to achieve Sam Morse's dream for the Monterey Peninsula as a golf mecca. Soon to follow, the 2025 Walker Cup Match will return for the second time to Cypress Point Club, a course that owes its very existence to the determination of founder Hollins. While there may be no more  iconic hole in the world of golf than the 16th at Cypress Point, there is certainly none more directly attributable to a woman. Prior to Cypress Point's construction in the late-1920s Hollins demonstrated the viability of the hole as a par-3 for all golfers – male or female – by driving a ball across a 200-yard expanse of the Pacific Ocean, landing in the middle of the future site of the 16th green. As course designer Dr. Alister Mackenzie (WGHOF 2005) later wrote, "I was in no way responsible for the hole. It was largely due to the vision of  Marion Hollins." In her time, Hollins set a new standard for golf design and the development of courses, both public and private, and her greatest contributions continue to be visited and studied by golfers from around the world. Just as new generations of golf architecture enthusiasts have come to appreciate C.B. Macdonald in the years following his 2005 induction for accomplishments both as an amateur champion and innovative course developer, so too would recognition by the World Golf Hall of Fame increase appreciation for Hollins, Macdonald's contemporary and female counterpart. While other amateurs in the Hall may have won  more championships, and other contributors may have established more prominent reputations as leaders and visionaries, no woman member of the World Golf Hall of Fame today possesses Hollins' combination of accomplishments as a both a player and developer of the game's great courses. Her credentials as U.S. Amateur Champion, as an early Chair of the USGA Women's Committee, as Captain of the first USA Curtis Cup team in 1932, stand alongside her pioneering work as the developer of the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club in 1923, Cypress Point Club in 1928, and Pasatiempo Golf Club in 1929 , among others. National and International Champion. Her involvement in so many diverse aspects of golf was unique for a woman of her time.