Julie Pauline Hall ( Wade, later Otto, born 10 March 1967) is an English golfer. She won the

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twice, in 1990 and 1995, and the

English Women's Amateur Championship The English Women's Amateur Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of England. It was first played in 1912 and is currently organised by England Golf. The English Women's Amateur Championship is contested thro ...

three times. She played in five

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matches from 1988 to 1996. She turned professional in 2011 to follow a career in golf tuition.

Golf career

Hall first came to prominence at the age of 20, when she won the 1987

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at Northumberland golf club, winning by 7 strokes from Alison Johns. The following week she won the English Intermediate Championship at Sheringham, a match-play event for women aged between 18 and 23, beating Sara Robinson 2&1 in the final. Earlier in the year she had made her senior debut for England in the

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at Turnberry. In 1987 she also made her first appearance in the

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, played that year at Ashburnham. England won the event, with Hall unbeaten in her six matches. In March 1988 Hall was selected for the

match, to be played in June at

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. In April she won the

at Little Aston, beating Susan Shapcott in the final at the 19th hole. In June Great Britain and Ireland retainied the

, winning by 11 matches to 7. Hall played with

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in both foursomes sessions, winning one match and losing the other. In the singles she beat Cindy Scholefield but lost to Tracy Kerdyk. The following week Hall reached the final of the

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, losing 4&3 to Joanne Furby. In August she was runner-up in the

at Wentworth, behind Sally Prosser, and was then a runner-up to Karen Mitchell in the

Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship was founded in 1969 by the Ladies' Golf Union (now merged into The R&A) of Great Britain. A stroke play tournament over 72 holes, it was discontinued by the R&A after the 2017 tournament won ...

at Royal Porthcawl, two weeks later. In September she played in the 1988 Espirito Santo Trophy at Royal Drottningholm in Sweden, where the team took the bronze medal. In early 1989, playing with

, they were runners-up in the

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behind

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and

Joanne Morley Joanne Lois Morley (born 30 December 1966) is an English professional golfer. Morley was born in Sale. She was leading amateur at the Women's British Open in 1989 and 1993 and English Women's Strokeplay Champion in 1991 and 1992. She finished ...

. Hall also reached the final of the English Intermediate Championship, losing to Lora Fairclough, and made her debut in the

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match in Italy. In 1990 Hall won the

at Dunbar, beating

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3&2 in the final. She was included in the

team for

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, which was selected immediately afterwards. The American won by 14 points to 4. Hall's results showed a similar pattern to 1988, with two wins on the first day followed by two defeats on the final day. She played with Kathryn Imrie in both foursomes sessions. In the singles she beat

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but lost to Karen Noble. She was again included in the

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team for the event which was held in New Zealand in October. The team repeated their 1988 performance, again taking the bronze medal. In 1991 she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship by 5 strokes from Linzi Fletcher. She also played that year in the

and

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. In early 1992 she won the Spanish Amateur Championship and was runner-up in the Helen Holm Championship behind

Mhairi McKay Mhairi McKay (born 18 April 1975) is a Scottish professional golfer who played mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and was also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career McKay was born in Glasgow. She is a former pupil of Fernhill ...

. She played in the 1992

match at Royal Liverpool, Great Britain & Ireland winning by 10 points to 8. She played with Caroline Hall in the foursomes matches, halving both matches. She lost to

in the opening day singles and was not selected for the final day singles. Hall had an exceptional season in 1993, winning four important open stroke-play championships, the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship, the

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, the

and the

. She also reached the semi-finals of the

at Royal Lytham, losing to Kirsty Speak. Despite her achievements she was only a joint winner of the 1993 Daily Telegraph woman golfer of the year award with

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, who won the British, Scottish and

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championships and also the St Rule Trophy. In 1994 Hall won the

at The Berkshire, beating Suzanne Sharpe by one hole in the final. She led the qualifying in the

.at Newport after rounds of 70 and 72, to be the top seed. However she lost to Catriona Matthew in the quarter-finals. She was again selected for the

team, which was announced after the British championship. The match in

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was tied, which meant that Great Britain & Ireland retained the cup. Hall played with Lisa Walton in both foursomes sessions, winning both matches. She played against Jill McGill in both singles sessions, halving on the first day but losing on the final day. Later in the year she played in the

in France. The team had a poor start and were lying 25th after the opening day. However they recovered to finish in a tie for 8th place. Hall had more success in 1995. She was a runner-up behind

Maria Hjorth Maria Anna Hjorth (born 15 October 1973) is a Swedish professional golfer. Early years Hjorth was born in Falun. As the youngest of three daughters to Kjell and Monica Hjorth, she first gripped a golf club at three years of age. Six years old, ...

in the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship. She retained her

title at Ipswich, her third win in the event, beating Elaine Ratcliffe in the final. As in 1994 she led the qualifying in the

, with rounds of 74 and 70 at

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. She went on to win the title beating Kristel Mourgue d'Algue 3&2 in the final. Her semi-final match against

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had gone to 21 holes before she was successful. In September she was part of the Great Britain team for the

in Australia where the team finished second. The following week she won the

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beating Helen Beatty in the final. For winning the English, British and Australian titles she was chosen as the 1995 Daily Telegraph woman golfer of the year. In early 1996 Hall won the Spanish Amateur Championship for the second time, beating

in the final. In April Hall was selected for the

match, played in June in

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. she had announced that she would be retiring from competitive golf after the event. Great Britain & Ireland won the match but Hall lost all four of her matches, two foursomes played with Lisa Educate and two singles matches. Free made a brief return to competitive golf in 1997, winning the

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with

. From 1996 to 2000 Hall was tournament secretary and then secretary of the

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. She then became Assistant Director of Rules at the R&A until 2007. She turned professional in 2011 to follow a career in golf tuition.

Personal life

She married Michael Hall in April 1989 and Steve Otto in 2003.

Team appearances

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(representing England): 1986 (winners) *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1988 (winners), 1990, 1992 (winners), 1994 (tied), 1996 (winners) *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1989 (winners), 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1995 *

(representing Great Britain): 1991 (winners), 1995 *

(representing England): 1987, 1989,

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(winners), 1993 (winners),

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(representing England): 1987 (winners), 1988, 1989 (winners), 1990, 1991, 1992 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1994 (winners), 1995 (winners) *

(representing England): 1986 (winners) Source:

References

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