Pasatiempo Golf Club

The Spanish word "pasatiempo" is translated as "hobby" or "pastime" or a "relaxed passage of time." Over the years, golfers have argued that there are few places more breathtaking and challenging than the course named Pasatiempo built by Marion Hollins and Dr. Alister MacKenzie.
Marion Hollins was the U.S. Women's Amateur Champion in 1921, and is widely recognized as pioneer of international womens sports at a time when sports were considered primarily a male activity. Ms. Hollins was an expert equestrian rider, and the only woman in America with a men's handicap in polo. She was a also a female entrepreneur in a man's world, a dreamer and a doer, a business associate of the rich and famous, and a person who made and lost fortunes.
While working for Samuel B. Morse at the Pebble Beach Company, Marion Hollins was given the task of developing the Cypress Point Golf Club. A great student of the game, she brought the teaching pro, Ernest Jones, to America and Dr. Alister MacKenzie to Cypress Point. Dr. MacKenzie gives her credit for the location of the 16th hole at Cypress. She teed up a ball and drove to the middle site for the suggested green.

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