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

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who was previously a member of the

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and currently plays on the

Ladies European Tour The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ...

College career

Hall accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the

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in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she played for coach

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team from 1987 to 1990. Following the 1990 season, she was recognized as the

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

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

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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 The Northern Ireland Ladies Open was a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour (LET) held in Northern Ireland. A Northern Ireland tournament was a fixture on the LET schedule since the tour's inception in 1979. In 1984 the tourn ...

in 2007. In 2008, she shot a final round 66 to win the

ANZ Ladies Masters The RACV Gold Coast Challenge was a golf tournament played in Australia. It was one of the leading tournaments on the ALPG Tour and was co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) since 2001. Between 1997 and 2000 it was an event on the LPGA ...

. She married English-born professional golfer Martin Hall in 1998.

Professional wins (6)

Ladies European Tour wins (4)

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

Women's Welsh Open The Women's Welsh Open was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour. The tournament was first played in 1995 at St Pierre Golf & Country Club in Chepstow, Wales, venue of the 1996 Solheim Cup. Laura Davies Dame La ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

Nykredit Masters The Danish Ladies Masters, known for sponsorship reason as the Nykredit Masters, was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that took place in Denmark. The tournament was first played in 2005 and the final edition was h ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

Futures Tour wins (1)

*2002 Greater Kansas City FUTURES Charity Golf Classic

Ladies Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

Indonesia Ladies Open The Indonesia Ladies Open was a professional golf tournament in Indonesia on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour. History The first event was played on the Ladies Asia Golf Circuit in 1987. The last event was held in 2012 and women's professional golf d ...

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 frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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