Marion Hollins hired English golf course designer Alister MacKenzie to design and build Pasatiempo Golf Course, which included an equestrian center with polo fields.

The course opened on September 8, 1929 with a celebrity golf match, with Bobby Jones in the first to play it.

[4][5] The course is famed for its breathtaking scenery and rich golf history.

[6] MacKenzie claimed that it was his best layout, ahead of even Cypress Point and Augusta National, and his American home borders the sixth fairway.

Pasatiempo is about an hour's drive from Cypress Point, a Monterey Peninsula neighbor to Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach.