No 82: Amateur golfers do the double (1933)
The Otago Golf Club had two special reasons to celebrate in 1933.
That was the year the club produced New Zealand amateur champions in both men's and women's golf.
And, at Titirangi, B.V. "Pip" Wright marched to victory in the men's amateur championship.
Wright, who had come south from Timaru, where he had won several club titles, later played a major role in writing the first history of New Zealand golf.
Hollis was also a member of the St Clair Golf Club, where her father was professional and greenkeeper.
In 1924, when Hollis was just 15, she reached the semifinals of the national matchplay championship, and two years later she won the Melsop Cup, the national strokeplay title, for the first of nine successive years.
She also won two national foursomes and three matchplay titles as well as winning the Australian matchplay and foursomes championships.
Hollis retired early but returned to golf in 1946 and immediately won her 10th strokeplay title. She continued to win more national foursomes titles and spearheaded the Auckland provincial team until 1959.
She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
