BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMP GEORGIA HALL TO TURN PRO ON 18TH BIRTHDAY
FROM THE BOURNEMOUTH ECHO NEWSPAPER
DORSET star Georgia Hall will celebrate her 18th birthday by turning professional next year, the Bournemouth Daily Echo can today exclusively reveal.
Georgia with the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship
Hall has shelved plans to try to win her playing privileges at tour school in Morocco next month and will rely heavily on sponsors’ invitations during her debut season.
The teenager, who lives in Wallisdown, is currently 10th in the world amateur rankings and third in Europe.
Crowned British Amateur champion in June, she will be unable to defend her title and has also surrendered exemption to next year’s Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale, earned after winning the inaugural LGU order of merit.
Hall, named after the American state in which Nick Faldo won the 1996 Masters, competed in her first major – the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California – just days before her 17th birthday.
She passed over an invitation to play in the US Open in favour of representing GB and Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy against Europe, winning her two foursomes matches with Ferndown’s Hayley Davies against Europe.
Hall shared the silver medal with Lydia Ko after finishing tied as
leading amateur at the Ricoh Women’s British Open at St Andrews in
August before featuring for Europe in the Junior Solheim Cup against
America in Colorado.
And she ended this season on a high by finishing as England's leading points scorer in the Home Internationals in Scotland.
Hall, who confirmed her decision to the Daily Echo earlier today, is looking for sponsors to help during her first year and can be contacted on georgiahallgolf@yahoo.com
12:54pm Wednesday 20th November 2013 in Sport
Exclusive By Neil Perrett
Exclusive By Neil Perrett
DORSET star Georgia Hall will celebrate her 18th birthday by turning professional next year, the Bournemouth Daily Echo can today exclusively reveal.
Georgia with the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship
Trophy she won at Machynys Golf Club, South Wales in June.
Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency
Bournemouth-born Hall, a member at both Remedy Oak and Parkstone, will
officially relinquish her amateur status when she turns 18 in April.
Hall has shelved plans to try to win her playing privileges at tour school in Morocco next month and will rely heavily on sponsors’ invitations during her debut season.
The teenager, who lives in Wallisdown, is currently 10th in the world amateur rankings and third in Europe.
Crowned British Amateur champion in June, she will be unable to defend her title and has also surrendered exemption to next year’s Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale, earned after winning the inaugural LGU order of merit.
Hall, named after the American state in which Nick Faldo won the 1996 Masters, competed in her first major – the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California – just days before her 17th birthday.
She passed over an invitation to play in the US Open in favour of representing GB and Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy against Europe, winning her two foursomes matches with Ferndown’s Hayley Davies against Europe.
And she ended this season on a high by finishing as England's leading points scorer in the Home Internationals in Scotland.
Hall, who confirmed her decision to the Daily Echo earlier today, is looking for sponsors to help during her first year and can be contacted on georgiahallgolf@yahoo.com
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