Marion Hollins

Marion Hollins (December 3, 1892 – August 27, 1944) was an American amateur golfer.

Hollins playing golf.
Hollins at age eleven (far right) with her father, H. B. Hollins (far left).

Biography

Hollins was born in East Islip, New York. Her father, H. B. Hollins, owned a Wall Street brokerage firm, H.B. Hollins & Co.

Hollins 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.

In her time, she helped developed three world class golf courses: The Women's National Golf and Tennis Club, Cypress Point Club, and Pasatiempo Golf Club.[1]

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.[2]

She died of cancer in 1944 at the age of 51.

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.[3]

Team appearances

Amateur

  • Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 1932 (winners, playing captain)

References
  1. "History: Marion Hollins". Pasatiempo Golf Club. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010.
  2. "The Masters Matchmaker". Golf.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2008.
  3. "Tim Finchem, former PGA Tour commissioner, elected to World Golf Hall of Fame". ESPN. Associated Press. April 20, 2020.
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