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'The Whole Reason for Augusta National': How Marion Hollins

Became a Golf Course Design Pioneer (Via PGA.com on April 4, 2023)

She was an influencer before the turn-of-phrase meant anything. She was a heavy inspirational hand in most of golf’s most prominent layouts. She did it all and played it all. She died young – too young – but left a lasting legacy.

Marion Hollins was a bit of everything. And now, 70 years after her passing, she continues to be celebrated.

“Because of her family’s wealth, they had access to all these hobbies and then having all these brothers … she was good at everything,” says Emily Chorba, the historian at California’s Pasatiempo Golf Club – an iconic layout that came to life thanks to Hollins.

“Samuel Morse wrote she had the best personality ever. That’s the ‘je ne sais quoi’ and she had it.”