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Lydia Hall
Personal information
Full nameLydia Gail Hall
Born (1987-12-14) 14 December 1987 (age 37)
Bridgend, Wales
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Sporting nationality Wales
Career
Turned professional2007
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2008)
Professional wins4
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
ALPG Tour1
Other2
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2022
Women's British OpenT57: 2018
Evian ChampionshipDNP

Lydia Gail Hall (born 14 December 1987) is a Welsh professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player.[1] She won the 2012 ISPS Handa Ladies British Masters and the 2016 Welsh National PGA Championship, the first woman to win a PGA national tournament.[2]

Early life, family, and amateur career

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Hall is the daughter of Wayne Hall, a rugby union player, who played one match for Wales in 1988.[1] She started to play golf at the age of 11 and was on the Welsh National team between 2001 and 2007, and helped win the silver medal at the 2004 European Lady Junior's Team Championship at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club.[3]

Professional career

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Hall turned professional in November 2007 and joined the 2008 Ladies European Tour. She represented Wales at the 2009 European Nations Cup with Becky Brewerton.[1]

In 2012, she won the ISPS Handa Ladies British Masters at Buckinghamshire Golf Club, and finished 16th in the season rankings. In 2016, she was runner-up at the Qatar Ladies Open and won the Welsh National PGA Championship, the first woman to win a PGA national tournament.[2]

In 2017, she also played in two LET Access Series events and won the WPGA International Challenge in Stoke-by-Nayland. Defending her title in 2018, she lost a playoff to Manon De Roey.

Hall tied for 3rd at the 2021 Aramco Team Series - Jeddah, where she captained a team with Becky Brewerton and Luiza Altmann that lost a playoff to Emily Kristine Pedersen's team, who scored an eagle on the second playoff hole to secure their victory.[4]

She was runner-up at the 2023 Dutch Ladies Open, a stroke behind Trichat Cheenglab.

Professional wins (4)

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Ladies European Tour (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 2012 ISPS Handa Ladies British Masters 66-71-72=209 −7 1 stroke United States Beth Allen

WPGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up Ref
1 2024 World Sand Greens Championship 72-68=140 −2 1 stroke Thailand Cholcheva Wongras [5]

LET Access Series wins (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up Ref
1 2017 WPGA International Challenge 65-72-70=207 −9 Playoff France Inès Lescudier [6]

Other wins (1)

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Team appearances

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Amateur

Professional

References

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  1. ^ a b c "2013 LET Media Guide". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  2. ^ a b "The PGA: Hall of fame". pga.info. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Results 2004 European Lady Junior's Team Championship" (PDF). European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Team Pedersen Win After Playoff As Babnik Secures Individual Title In Jeddah". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  5. ^ Webeck, Tony (11 April 2024). "Hall crowned first World Sand Greens champion at Walcha". WPGA.
  6. ^ "Results 2017 WPGA International Challenge". Golfdata. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  7. ^ "European Girls' Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Welsh call for golfers". Wales on Line. 8 June 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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