VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Morrisville

Golf 

Inducted 2019

Holly Reynolds has won more Vermont Women’s Golf Association amateur championships than any other competitor, her total of nine surpassing the seven won by fellow Vermont Sports Hall of Fame inductee Mae Murray Jones (VSHOF ’43). 

Bracketing a professional career, Reynolds captured five straight state amateurs from 1989 to 1993 as well as the 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2017 titles. The five straight championships equaled the mark set by Jones and later by Libby Smith. 

Reynolds holds the lowest one-day record in the state amateur carding a 68, set in 1992 at the Manchester Country Club, which she later broke with a 67 in 2010 at Vermont National in South Burlington. She also holds the mark for largest margin of victory of 18 strokes set in 1993.In 2001, she set the record for lowest winning final score in the VWGA Mid-Amateur at 144.  

Prior to her Vermont Amateur success, Reynolds was a four-time Vermont high school champion, 1987 through 1990 while competing for Peoples Academy. 

She received a full scholarship to attend the University of Kansas, where she was a four-year member of the Jayhawks. Reynolds was a three-time All-Big 8 selection, who competed at the 1993 NCAA Championships, before eventually elevating to the team's number one player her senior year. She racked up seven career collegiate victories which was a KU record when she graduated in 1994.  She still holds the program record for most single-season top-ten finishes and has medaled an impressive 25 times in her four-year career including seven as an individual. Her regular season and post-season success is unprecedented as she placed tied for ninth in the 1993 NCAA West Regional before carding a top-15 finish in the championship round.

She won the New England amateur at Crown Point Country Club in Springfield in 1992 and was the runner-up in the 1993 USGA Public Links championships at Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1993. 

Reynolds turned professional after her college career and was named player of the year for the 1994-95 Central Florida mini-tour. She won a Futures Tour tournament in Endicott, N.Y. in 1995 and qualified for the 1996 and 1997 U.S. Opens. Reynolds set a course record during an LPGA qualifier at Rancho Mirage, Calif. with a 65 on the Players Course.

She regained her amateur status with her return to Vermont and continues to be a dominant player.