Marion Hollins was an American amateur golfer.

Hollins was born in East Islip, New York

East Islip, New York

East Islip is a hamlet and CDP in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, . At the time of the 2000 census, the CDP had 4,578 households and a population of 14,078.-History and overview:...

. Her father, H. B. Hollins

H. B. Hollins

Harry Bowly Hollins was an American financier, banker, and railroad magnate. He was responsible for organizing the banking and brokerage firm bearing his name, H.B. Hollins & Co. in 1878.-Life and business:...

, owned a Wall Street brokerage firm, H.B. Hollins & Co.

Marion 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 among many other amateur wins. She was the captain of the first U.S. Curtis Cup

Curtis Cup

The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match . It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and the Ladies Golf Union and is contested by teams representing the United States and "Great Britain and Ireland"...

 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

Cypress Point Club

Cypress Point Club is a private golf club in California. The club has a single eighteen hole course, one of eight on the Monterey peninsula near Monterey, California. The course is well known around the world for its series of three holes that play along the Pacific Ocean: the 15th, 16th and 17th,...

, and Pasatiempo Golf Club.

Marion was responsible for hiring Alister MacKenzie

Alister MacKenzie

Dr. Alister MacKenzie was an internationally renowned, British golf course architect whose course designs, on three different continents, are consistently ranked among the finest golf courses in the world...

 to design Cypress Point and Pasatiempo; she was ultimately the reason Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones (golfer)

Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level...

 hired MacKenzie to design Augusta National Golf Club

Augusta National Golf Club

Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is a famous men's golf club. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts and designed by Alister MacKenzie on the site of a former indigo plantation, the club opened for play in January 1933. Since 1934, it has played host to the annual...

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