Lisa Ann Hall (born 24 September 1967), née Lisa Ann Hackney, is an English

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

who was previously a member of the

LPGA Tour The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly ...

and currently plays on the

Ladies European Tour The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. Most of the players on the tour are European, with members from more than 40 countries internationally. Despite its name, the tour also has tournaments in A ...

College career

Hall accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the

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in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she played for coach Mimi Ryan's Florida Gators women's golf team from 1987 to 1990. Following the 1990 season, she was recognized as the

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central United States, South Central and Southeastern United States. Its 16 members in ...

(SEC) Golfer of the Year, and was a first-team All-SEC selection and a second-team

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. Hall graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1990.

Professional career

Hall turned professional on 8 January 1991, and joined the

(LET) that year. In 1995 she won the Indonesia Open and topped the Kosaido Asian Circuit Order of Merit. She won her first LET title at the 1996 Women's Welsh Open and played for Europe in the

Solheim Cup The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian- American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving forc ...

that year and for a second time in 1998. In 1997 she joined the United States–based

. She finished in the top ten in three of the four majors in her rookie season and was named Rookie of the Year. However, soon after that, she began to struggle and by 2005 had ceased playing tournament golf. In 2006, she made a comeback on the LET, and won the Northern Ireland Ladies Open in 2007. In 2008, she shot a final round 66 to win the ANZ Ladies Masters. She married English-born professional golfer Martin Hall in 1998.

Professional wins (6)

Ladies European Tour wins (4)

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Women's Welsh Open *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

Northern Ireland Ladies Open, Nykredit Masters *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

ANZ Ladies Masters

Futures Tour wins (1)

*2002 Greater Kansas City FUTURES Charity Golf Classic

Ladies Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

Indonesia Ladies Open

Team appearances

Professional *

(representing Europe):

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

External links

BBC article on Hall's 2006 comeback
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Lisa English female golfers Florida Gators women's golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe People from Skegness Sportspeople from Stoke-on-Trent 1967 births Living people 20th-century English sportswomen