Harry Hall, the 26-year-old Englishman quietly putting together one of the most consistent seasons on the PGA Tour, just admitted he’s had no conversations with European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald. None, which is shocking.
Let’s set the stage. Hall just fired a tidy little 67 in the second round of the BMW Championship, moving himself into the top 10 on the leaderboard at 5-under heading into the weekend. That puts him right on the bubble for qualifying into next week’s Tour Championship at East Lake, one of the golden tickets of the PGA Tour season. But if you look at the numbers, Hall has been one of the hottest Europeans in the game.
Stat-man Jamie Kennedy laid it out clearly. Over the last three months, Hall has been the fifth best European golfer on the PGA Tour. And he’s first in strokes-gained putting, first in total birdies, first in birdie average, and first in most rounds in the 60s this season.
That’s not a typo. Fifty-seven rounds in the 60s. He’s also second in scoring average, second in par-4 scoring, and third in bounce-back percentage. Translation is that every time this guy gets knocked down, he comes back swinging. That’s Ryder Cup material.
No Ryder Cup Convoersations With the Captain
Yet, when reporters pressed him after his round, Hall just shrugged. No phone calls from Donald, no meetings with vice-captains, and no fittings for the iconic navy-and-gold uniform. He even admitted the Ryder Cup has been on his mind “the last couple weeks,” but for now, it’s just about resting, resetting, and keeping the pedal down this weekend.
The human side of Hall’s dream is where it really hits. He talked about his assistant coach in college, Phil Rowe, who played in the 1999 Walker Cup. Hall remembered staring at that bag in the clubhouse and thinking, “One day, not a Walker Cup bag… a Ryder Cup one.” You can feel just how much this would mean to him.
Here’s the reality: Hall currently sits 19th in the European Ryder Cup standings. That’s outside the automatic cut, but with form like this and a chance to sneak into the Tour Championship, he could force his way into Donald’s mind. And remember — the captain has six picks to hand out on September 1st.
So the question becomes: how much longer can Donald ignore Harry Hall? If he keeps rolling in putts and stacking top-10s, the silence might not last much longer. Because right now, Hall looks like the kind of guy you want staring down an American across the green at Bethpage.
