Marion Hollins (1892-1944) was an elite amateur golfer, horsewoman, polo player and trailblazing race car driver. One of the finest all-around athletes of her day, she was also a devoted American patriot and prominent advocate for women’s suffrage. But golf was her greatest passion. 

Hollins won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in 1921. Between 1923-1942 she won the Pebble Beach Championship a record seven times. In 1932 she captained the victorious inaugural U.S.A. Curtis Cup team. 

Yet among her many accomplishments, none exceeds her role in developing the Monterey Peninsula into a golf Mecca.   On the basis of a shared strategic golf course architectural philosophy, she forged a fruitful and enduring design collaboration with legendary golf course designer Dr. Alister MacKenzie.  

Her most celebrated projects, Cypress Point Club and Pasatiempo Golf Club, are two of the sport’s most spectacular venues and she worked closely on both courses with MacKenzie, who extended her full credit for the creation of Cypress Point’s breathtakingly beautiful 16th hole.  During construction of Augusta National Golf Club, MacKenzie so valued Hollins’ expertise that he asked her to go there in his stead to critique it.  In 2021 Marion Hollins was named an Honorary Member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. 

Hindered neither by convention nor tradition, Marion Hollins was an American original whose achievements place her among the greatest names in golf. In recognition of this legacy, Hollins was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022.