Everything you need to know about professional golfer Georgia Hall

14 January 2021

By Lucy_Roberts_72

Georgia Kelly Hall MBE is a professional golfer from England. Born on 12 April 1996 in Bournemouth, she has been playing golf professionally since 2014. So far Hall has won one major championship, finishing top of the leader board at the Women’s British Open in 2018 at Royal Lytham. She currently plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.

Georgia Hall Credit: PA Images

Amateur Career

Before Hall turned professional at 18-years-old, she competed in amateur competitions. She started out playing golf at Canford Magna Golf Club in Wimborne which has since been shut down so the land can be turned into an alternative natural greenspace.

During her amateur career Hall won two gold medals at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, an international multi-sport event for athletes aged between 13 to 19, in January 2013.

The year before, the Bournemouth born golfer won the 2012 Girls Amateur Championship which was held at Tenby Golf Club in South Wales.

The 24-year-old can also add winning the 2013 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship to her early career accomplishments.

Professional Career

In July 2014, Hall turned professional, and it didn’t seem like a big step up for her, as she won a tournament just two months later in the form of the Open Generali de Strasbourg in France. This was a part of the LET Access Series which is the second-tier professional female golf tour in Europe and is the official developmental tour of the Ladies European Tour.

Then just two years later Hall earned success again on the ALPG Tour, a professional women’s golf tour based in Australia, by winning the Oates Victorian Open in February 2016, the only professional golf tournament in the world where both men and women play the same courses simultaneously for the same amount of prize money.

After achieving seven top 10 finishes during the 2017 season on the Ladies European Tour, including a tie for third place at the Women’s British Open which was held at Kingsbarns Golf Links in Fife, Scotland and a tie for tenth place at the Evian Championship in France, the young golfer was awarded the Tour’s Order of Merit.

Hall got a place on the 2018 LPGA Tour after putting herself through qualifying school, which involves annual qualifying tournaments for golf tours. Getting through qualifying school is a tough ask and players rarely achieve it as there can be up to four stages to get through and only a small number of golfers go on to the next stage, with the final stage being held over a gruelling six rounds instead of the standard four.

However, this set up Hall perfectly because in August 2018 she won her first and so far only major championship, the Women’s British Open, beating second placed Thai-player Pornanong Phatlum by two strokes. It was success after success for Hall during the 2018 season as she was awarded the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit again, making it the second time she had earned such an accolade.

Despite the Coronavirus pandemic bringing most of the world to a standstill, this was no different for golf as the main tours in 2020 were cancelled. However, Hall still managed to win some of the competitions which did go ahead including two tournaments on the Rose Ladies Series, and in the overall standings she finished second, just behind fellow English player Charley Hull.

As the LPGA Tour returned in July 2020 it allowed Hall to compete at the Cambia Portland Classic in September and win it, signifying her second win on the tour, and her first time in the United States.

Team Appearances

While playing as an amateur and a professional, Hall took part in team competitions where she represented either Great Britain and Ireland or Europe. As an amateur she took part in the first Junior Vagliano Trophy in 2011, the Junior Solheim Cup in 2013 representing Europe, the 2013 Vagliano Trophy and in 2014 the Curtis Cup.

She carried on playing in team competitions when she transitioned to a professional player, taking part in the 2016 The Queens in Japan where she represented Europe who came third in the tournament. The Bournemouth-born player was also included in the European team in the 2017 Solheim Cup, and again in 2019 but this time she was part of the winning side.

Other professional team appearances include taking part in the European Championships in 2018 representing Great Britain who hosted the tournament in Glasgow and won two medals, and additionally the International Crown in the same year where Hall represented England.

Personal Facts

- During her win at the 2018 Women’s British Open, Hall’s dad was with her the whole way, and not just metaphorically. Wayne Hall was her caddie throughout the competition.

- Hall’s name has golf connections as she was born just a couple of days before Nick Faldo won his third Masters title at Augusta National Golf Club which is located in Augusta, Georgia, USA, hence her name being Georgia.

- In 2019, 24-year-old was given an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to golf in the Birthday Honours.