All proceeds from the sale of this book go to promoting Marion Hollins Legacy. “When you start reading about Marion Hollins, you realize what a trailblazer she was. In her era, she didn’t have many resources with the status of women in sports and golf. To be that kind of trailblazer with that kind of enthusiasm and energy and get into course development and design is very inspirational. She was an advocate for women and changed the landscape of the game.” -Annika Sorenstam, World Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2003 Inductee Marion Hollins was born into a world and a time when women “knew their place.” It was a notion she rejected throughout her tradition-shattering career. David Outerbridge tells the tale of an extraordinary woman who is perhaps the sportswoman of the twentieth century. Yet, although she filled the newspapers and magazines of her day, her record of amazing accomplishments is not well known today. Marion Hollins was the United States Women’s Amateur Golf Champion, won the Metropolitan Golf Championship three time, the Long Island Championship twice, and the Pebble Beach Championship and unequalled seven times. She was captain of the first U.S. Curtis Cup team and led it to a strategic upset victory over Joyce Wethered’s British team. She helped Babe Didrickson and other champions with their nascent games. For all these accomplishments in the golf world, she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in March 2022 along with Tiger Woods, Susie Maxwell Berning and Tim Finchem. She was the greatest horsewomen of her generation, and the only women rated with a man’s handicap in polo. In California, she instituted the annual tournaments at Pebble beach, and proceeded to set the course record there for women which remained unbroken for 16 years. She created the Cypress Point club and organized its original membership. When the architects Seth Raynor and Alister MacKenzie advised her that its famous 16th hole was too long for a straight carry par 3, she said they were wrong, picked up a brassie, and sent a ball screaming across the ocean. Where it landed is the green, the most photographed hole in all of golf. She created Pasatiempo, another golfing, gem and introduced steeplechase to northern California there. She was friends with Mary Pickford, Walt Disney, Vanderbilts, Crockers, Amelia Earhart, Bobby Jones, and other famous personalities of the day. Marion Hollins is a personification of the great amateur, and woman who was stopped by no obstacle or convention in achieving what she thought needed to be done. She was indeed a champion in a man’s world. “We don’t know enough about the story of women in golf. This book fill in a lot of gaps. Readers will find Marion Hollins fascinating. I did.” - Louise Suggs, U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open, and LPGA Champion “If she ever played safe in her life, I was not there to see it, and I have never heard of anyone who was.” Ann Trabue, A sports reporter in the 1930’s