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The amazing life of Marion Hollins

It’s likely nary a living soul would know what it meant that Marion Hollins was considered a masterful competitor in gymkhana equestrian races or appreciate how flawlessly she could handle a four-in-hand knot while wearing a corset and Edwardian hat or comprehend her national women’s amateur championship despite scores in the 90s. Which is part of the problem with being in a world that goes so frightfully fast; you’re not afforded the opportunity to study and fathom what happened behind us. That, of course, is no fault of Hollins, who remains a fascinating study in character and achievement even now, three-quarters of a century since her death. She was of another era, one that included the horse and buggy, so, yes, feeling a connection to Hollins is virtually impossible. But while we are so miserable at appreciating what came before us, savor this majesty about Hollins – she had an uncanny vision for the brilliance ahead of her. Before our world was sent reeling and forced into isolation to fight the coronavirus pandemic, there was the sweet smell of spring that came floating in with the early days of March. For many, those are days to rekindle a love of golf and for a small, but passionate corner of the golf world that cherishes the memory of Hollins, there was a brilliant symmetry to how March 3 and March 8 arrived in short proximity. The former was the day finalists were announced for the World Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2021. The latter is designated annually as International Women’s Day, billed as a focal point in the movement for women’s rights. On both fronts, Hollins’ name generated conversation, and now she becomes the second member scheduled for induction, the news being announced Friday by the World Golf Hall of Fame after she received a favorable vote by the 20-member Selection Committee. Tiger Woods, arguably the most heralded golfer ever, was previously announced and was an easy selection, but just as special was the induction of Hollins as a contributor. While far less heralded a golfer, it can be argued that Hollins authored as compelling and rich a life in the game as any member before her. Which is where the tie-in to International Women’s Day comes in, because Hollins blazed a trail against longer odds and far more societal biases. It was nearly 100 years ago – Jan. 20, 1922, to be exact – when a headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer appeared on Page 20: “Plan Golf Club For Women Only.� Mind you, the 19th amendment allowing women the right to vote had been passed just a few years earlier, if that gives you a sense of the landscape that shaped this nation. Yet, a women’s group in the New York area was lobbying for a change. “It has long been the custom on golf courses throughout the country for women golfers to give men players full sway and right of way on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays,� the story reported. Notable was the chairman of the committee who was in front of the movement – Hollins. Just three months earlier, Hollins had defeated Alexa Stirling to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, New Jersey, and here she was, fronting a cause that transcended the game. Passionate about the fight, Hollins had a bigger prize in mind than simply getting clubs to relax their rules. She had visions of a club on Long Island being strictly for women golfers and tennis players. Fred Perry, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, marveled at the character that was at the root of Hollins’ cause. “She would rather be right than champion,� he wrote. “Right in the matter of form and style.� That form and style was central to Hollins’ life, too short that it may have been. She was just 51 years old when she died of cancer on Aug. 27, 1944, but oh, the substantial impacts Hollins made in such a relatively brief life were riveting. That golf club, for instance, became a reality. The Women’s National Golf and Tennis Club opened in the 1920s, Hollins’ vision carried through by her hand-picked choices to design it: Devereux Emmet and Seth Raynor as a consultant. The project ignited a fire within Hollins and on Jan. 27, 1922, the New York Daily News reported that “Miss Marion Hollins, national golf champion, is on the broad Atlantic today bound for England to study golf architecture.� She was 29 years old and had already scripted a most marvelous life. The national amateur championship in 1921 had come eight years after Hollins, at 20, had lost to Gladys Ravenscroft in the finals. In between, she managed to win a few women’s titles in the Met Section and become the center of much publicity for her all-around athletic ability. “America’s Leading Out-of-Doors Girl� exclaimed a full-page story in the Chicago Tribune in 1914 and the copy gushed accordingly in the aftermath of the news that Hollins had been declared a plus-one handicap: “Marion Hollins is in a class by herself in everything. She rides (equestrian) as well as she golfs. She’s the best woman driver in the east (maneuvering horse-drawn carriages along Fifth Avenue). She’s the star of the Long Island polo team. She swims like a reincarnated mermaid. She plays tennis like a whirlwind. I’d trust myself with her in motor climbing the Jungfrau if she took it into her head to drive to the top.� Oh, and there was this thousand-pound cherry on top: Hollins was an heiress to millions of dollars, the only daughter and youngest of five children born to H.B. Hollins, a Wall Street brokerage tycoon, and his wife, Evelina Meserole Knapp Hollins, whose father, William Kumbel Knapp is captured for eternity as one of the subjects in the painting, “The Knapp Children,� by Samuel Lovett Waldo and William Jewell, that hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 5th Avenue in New York City. Yes, we’re talking high society during in the Gatsby Era or the Gilded Age, take your pick. The Hollins family was related by blood to the Vanderbilts, and H.B. was best friends with J.P. Morgan and there was great comfort on that 600-acre estate in East Islip on Long Island called Meadow Farm. But while blanketed in all that excess, Marion Hollins was as advertised; she was saturated in “form and style.� Her push to build The Women’s National Golf and Tennis Club validated her mission, but the study of architecture in the U.K. was taken seriously, too. What’s more, Hollins put it to great use when she returned and settled in the area that she would embrace as her new home – the Monterey Peninsula area in California. It was there, starting in the late 1920s that Hollins forged the final chapters of her incredible life – the visionary behind iconic Cypress Point and Pasatiempo; the impetus to introducing Dr. Alister MacKenzie to Bobby Jones, which directly led to Augusta National; champion golfer at Pebble Beach; U.S. captain for the first Curtis Cup in 1932 – that make her a worthy World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, especially when you consider her push years earlier for women’s rights, long before it became vogue. With her father having gone bankrupt, Hollins proved she didn’t need to be an heiress. She opened a real estate company in Santa Cruz, California, and began combining her true loves – golf, property, vision, and business. In MacKenzie, who had designed Meadow Club in Fairfax, 40 miles north of San Francisco, Hollins had befriended the perfect set of eyes and mind to develop a golf course that would be called the Cypress Point Club on Monterey Peninsula. Wrote Grantland Rice: “And at Cypress Point, Del Monte, Miss Marion Hollins (and her group) is planning one of the most spectacular links in the world, with Dr. MacKenzie for the architect. With the Pacific Ocean, the vast white sand dunes, and the cypress groves, there are possibilities here no other course can quite equal.� Opened in August 1928, Cypress Point has lived up to Rice’s billing and it surely proved Hollins had impeccable golf and business savvy. But she wasn’t done. She had fallen in love with hundreds of acres in Santa Cruz, 48 miles north of Pebble Beach, as you meandered around Monterey Bay. There, she presented MacKenzie with his next opportunity and when Pasatiempo opened on Sept. 8, 1929, Hollins’ star power was confirmed – none other than Bobby Jones agreed to be in her foursome to christen the new course. Let the record show that Jones, who shot 75, and Hollins were beaten by Cyril Tolley, two-time British Amateur champion, and Glenna Collett, six-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champ, but you could use some literal license and suggest golf was truly the winner because what developed out of the Jones and Hollins teamwork went far beyond the lost game on this day. The late Dave Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for The New York Times, writing 17 years ago, quoted Sidney L. Matthew, the Jones historian, to put an exclamation point on the Jones-Hollins friendship. “If the women members’ issue (which came to the forefront at Augusta National in 2003) had been raised (back in the 1930s), I think it’s fair to say that Bob would have invited his friends Marion (Hollins) and Alexa (Stirling) to be members.� Jones thought so much of Cypress Point, which he had also played in 1929, and his two rounds at Pasatiempo that it cemented his choice of MacKenzie to design Augusta National. But the Hollins connection wasn’t done, Anderson wrote. He cited Geoff Shackelford’s book, “Alister MacKenzie’s Cypress Point Club,� and a quote from MacKenzie on Hollins: “She has been associated with me in three golf courses and not only are her own ideas valuable, but she is thoroughly conversant in regard to the character of the work I like.� Then Shackleford included the quote that has cemented Hollins’ stature in the minds of her many supporters: “I do not know of any man who has sounder ideas,� MacKenzie wrote in a letter to Jones, insisting that Hollins do the on-site inspection at Augusta National in lieu of him. That MacKenzie died in 1934 and never watched the Masters be competed on his golf course has always been a bittersweet entry to his legacy. That Hollins – who restored her financial fortune with a $2.5 million windfall from an investment in a speculative oil deal in 1930, only to pretty much spend all of that on her beloved Pasatiempo – died long before her legend behind Cypress Point, Pasatiempo and Augusta National was given proper credit has always been a disappointing omission. Maybe that will be righted forever with her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, an entrance that should be saluted by those who love their champions to have “form and style,� and that most admirable of all human traits, a social conscience.

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MORE: Watch live streaming coverage this week Phil Mickelson (8), Satoshi Kodaira (70), Rafa Cabrera Bello (64): Mickelson won this season’s World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship, his first win since hoisting the Claret Jug in 2013. Kodaira earned his first PGA TOUR victory at this year’s RBC heritage, while Cabrera Bello has three top-10s this season. Tee times: 3:03 a.m. on Thursday; 8:04 a.m. on Friday. Si Woo Kim (41), Webb Simpson (11), Nicola Hojgaard (NR): The past two PLAYERS champions are paired for the first two rounds at Carnoustie. Simpson won this year’s PLAYERS by four shots. It was his first victory since the 2013 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. They’re playing alongside Danish amateur Nicola Hojgaard. Tee time: 3:25 a.m. on Thursday; 8:26 a.m. on Friday. Justin Rose (4), Jordan Spieth (40), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (NR): Rose won earlier this season at another course dubbed Hogan’s Alley. He displayed impressive iron play in winning the Fort Worth Invitational at Colonial. He also won this season’s World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions. Spieth will try to solve his putting woes at the event of his most recent PGA TOUR victory. Aphibarnrat recently accepted Special Temporary Membership on the PGA TOUR after finishing T5 in two World Golf Championships (Mexico Championship, Dell Technologies Match Play).  Tee times: 4:58 a.m. on Thursday; 9:59 a.m. on Friday. Jon Rahm (14), Rickie Fowler (16), Chris Wood (NR): This group features two of the top 20 players in the FedExCup, and two players hungry for their first major. Rahm won this season’s CareerBuilder Challenge. Fowler, the 2015 PLAYERS champion, has two runners-up this season (OHL Classic at Mayakoba, Masters). England’s Wood has two top-5 finishes at The Open. Tee times: 5:09 a.m. on Thursday; 10:10 a.m. on Friday. Louis Oosthuizen (75), Paul Casey (12), Patrick Reed (7): Reed rides a string of three consecutive top-four finishes in majors into The Open Championship. He finished second at last year’s PGA before winning the Masters and finishing fourth at the U.S. Open. Casey won this season’s Valspar Championship for his second PGA TOUR victory. Oosthuizen won the 2010 Open Championship at St. Andrews and lost in a playoff to Zach Johnson when The Open returned there in 2015. Tee times: 5:20 a.m. on Thursday; 10:21 a.m. on Friday. Henrik Stenson (43), Tommy Fleetwood (32), Jimmy Walker (53): In 2016, Stenson added The Open Championship to a sterling resume that already included THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup. Fleetwood is coming off a runner-up at Shinnecock Hills that included a final-round 63, while Walker was runner-up at this year’s THE PLAYERS. Tee times: 7:31 a.m. on Thursday; 2:30 a.m. on Friday. Rory McIlroy (39), Marc Leishman (20), Thorbjorn Olesen (NR): McIlroy returns to a course where he won the Silver Medal as the low amateur. He was in third place after shooting 68 in the first round of the 2007 Open before finishing 42nd. McIlroy won The Open in 2014 and added the FedExCup two years later. He and Leishman represent the past two champions of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, as well. Leishman was part of the three-man playoff won by Zach Johnson in the 2015 Open at St. Andrews. Olesen is coming off a recent victory at the Italian Open.  Tee time: 7:53 a.m. on Thursday; 2:52 a.m. on Friday. Dustin Johnson (1), Alex Noren (31), Charley Hoffman (102): The FedExCup leader is playing with a Presidents Cup teammate and a potential Ryder Cup foe. Johnson has won twice this season, an eight-shot victory at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and six-shot win at the FedEx St. Jude Classic. He is coming off the disappointment of losing a four-shot lead at the halfway point of the U.S. Open, though. Noren is playing his first season as a PGA TOUR member. He was a runner-up in a playoff to Jason Day at the Farmers Insurance Open. He recently won the French Open. Tee times: 8:04 a.m. on Thursday; 3:03 a.m. on Friday. Justin Thomas (2), Francesco Molinari (27), Branden Grace (74): The reigning FedExCup champion is playing alongside one of the game’s hottest players and the man who shot a record-setting round last year at Royal Birkdale. Thomas is second in this season’s FedExCup standings thanks to wins at the CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES and The Honda Classic. Molinari has two wins and two runners-up in his past five starts, with a T25 at Shinnecock Hills sandwiched in between. He picked up his first PGA TOUR win at the Quicken Loans National before finishing second in last week’s John Deere Classic. Grace shot 62 in last year’s Open Championship, the lowest round in major championship history. Tee times: 8:26 a.m. on Thursday; 3:25 a.m. on Friday. Sergio Garcia (128), Bryson DeChambeau (6), Shubankar Sharma (NR): Garcia returns to the site of one of several heartbreaking finishes that preceded his win in last year’s Masters. He missed a 10-foot par putt on the final hole here in 2007 before losing a playoff to Harrington. Garcia needs some good results to avoid missing the FedExCup Playoffs for the first time. DeChambeau, who’s in the middle of a breakout season that includes a victory at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, withdrew from his title defense at last week’s John Deere Classic because of a shoulder injury. Sharma turned heads after holding the 54-hole lead at this year’s World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship. Tee times: 10:10 a.m. on Thursday; 5:09 a.m. on Friday. Ian Poulter (34), Cameron Smith (44), Brooks Koepka (13): Koepka, the first back-to-back U.S. Open champion in nearly three decades, will try to claim a different Open. He’s joined by England’s Poulter, who won this season’s Houston Open. Cameron Smith won last season’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans with Jonas Blixt. Tee times: 9:59 a.m. on Thursday; 4:58 a.m. on Friday. Tiger Woods (50), Hideki Matsuyama (81), Russell Knox (73): The local favorite will play alongside the 14-time major champion. Russell Knox, fresh off a victory at the Irish Open and runner-up at the French Open, is looking to become the first Scot to win The Open since Paul Lawrie won at Carnoustie in 1999. Knox’s Irish Open victory was his first since his dramatic win at the Travelers Championship in 2016. Carnoustie is the closest Open venue to his hometown of Inverness, which is three hours away. Woods, a three-time Open champion, has finished T7 and T12 in two Opens at Carnoustie, a course he has competed on since playing the Scottish Open as an amateur. Matsuyama, who has won five times over the previous four seasons, is in the midst of his first winless season since 2015. He won three times last season to finish eighth in the FedExCup. Tee times: 10:21 a.m. on Thursday; 5:20 a.m. Eastern on Friday.

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Last chance for Woodland, Day to earn automatic Presidents Cup spotsLast chance for Woodland, Day to earn automatic Presidents Cup spots

MEDINAH, Ill. – Neither Gary Woodland nor Jason Day want to settle for being captain’s picks on their respective Presidents Cup teams. “The goal is not to be in that predicament,â€� Woodland said. “I would like to earn my way on,â€� Day added. Yet the reality is this: Unless they can go low in the final round of the BMW Championship, it appears each one will remain on the outside looking in when the eight automatic spots for the U.S. and International teams are confirmed Sunday night. Entering the week, Woodland and Day were each ranked ninth in points. Woodland was about 350 points behind No. 8 Patrick Cantlay in the U.S. standings that are based on a FedExCup points calculation. The Australian Day was less than four points behind Korean C.T. Pan in the International standings that are based on world rankings. Projections through three rounds at Medinah still have each one outside the top eight. Tony Finau, who started the week ranked 10th in the U.S. standings, has leapfrogged Woodland and is projected to fill the opening left by Bryson DeChambeau, who has slid out of the top eight projections. In fact, Woodland is projected to 10th now. Day, tied for 36th through three rounds, needs to finish solo 19th or better to pass fellow Aussie Cameron Smith, who is not in the field this week. An additional factor is No. 10 Jazz Janewattanond of Thailand, who is one stroke off the lead through 54 holes at this week’s Asian Tour event. If Janewattanond wins, he could also gain enough points to move inside the top eight. In the end, though, it likely will not matter for either Woodland or Day if they fail to automatically qualify. Odds are that both will be at Royal Melbourne this December, even if U.S. Captain Tiger Woods and International Captain Ernie Els have to wait a few months before making it official when their picks are announced in early November. Woodland is this year’s U.S. Open champion, and in Presidents Cup history, just a handful of Americans have failed to make the team in the year of their major victory, the last one being in 2011 when Keegan Bradley won the PGA Championship. As for Day, it’s hard to imagine Ernie Els leaving one of Australian’s best players and a former world No. 1 off the International team that is hoping to use its home-course advantage at Royal Melbourne. In fact, both Els and assistant captain Trevor Immelman sent Day good-luck texts this week. Automatic spot or captain’s pick? Day and Woodland both said their focus is more on showing good form than fretting over scenarios. Related: Leaderboard | Projected FedExCup standings | Tiger needs miracle to get to East Lake “I’m not really worried about that as much as I need to go out and play some good golf,â€� said Day, who shot a 3-under 69 Saturday to move to 6 under for the week. “If I can go out and shoot a low one tomorrow, hopefully that will take care of it.â€� Day has missed the cut in two of his last three starts, including last week’s THE NORTHERN TRUST when he dropped from seventh to ninth in the International standings, and followed by announcing his split with caddie Steve Williams after six starts. Since the Masters when he finished T-5, Day has made eight individual stroke-play starts and has just one top 10. But he feels something good is just around the corner. “I feel like I’m very close to shooting a low one,â€� Day said after his round Saturday. “It’s very, very close. It’s right on the border. Just got to be patient with it. I’ve been saying that pretty much the whole year, it feels like. “Sometimes when you’re trying to work and get back to the good form, you have to be patient. That’s all you can do. I’m still trying my best.â€� Woodland, meanwhile, definitely seemed at his best Saturday when he shot a bogey-free 8-under 64, just one shot off the Medinah course record set by Hideki Matsuyama in the second round. Woodland had a 7-foot putt on the 18th hole to tie the record but missed. “Would’ve been nice to knock that in but it wasn’t a bad putt,â€� Woodland said. “Not going to complain about 64.â€� It’s his lowest round since shooting a 63 in the final round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open last November. It also eclipsed the 65 he shot in the second round at Pebble Beach in June that set him for his weekend run to the U.S. Open title. Since then, Woodland has made four starts, missing two cuts. Wife Gabby also delivered their twin girls earlier this month, and Woodland said Saturday that it was tough emotionally. But he seemed to find his groove in the second round at Liberty National, making the cut by shooting 4 under in his final nine holes that Friday. “Playing four rounds last week was huge for me,â€� said Woodland, 9 under through three rounds. “I’m getting some things worked out on the golf course. It’s a little hard to do it on the range.â€� But he did find something on the Medinah range Friday night, successfully carrying that to the course Saturday. He hit 10 of 14 fairways and 16 of 18 greens. “It’s as good as I’ve hit it in a long time,â€� he said. No doubt that’s good news for Captain Woods. It’ll make it easier to add Woodland to the team no matter what happens Sunday. “The way I played today,â€� Woodland said, “if I continue to do that, everything should be all right.â€�

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