Marion Hollins
Marion Hollins was an American amateur golfer.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.
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.
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.Team appearances
Amateur
