Hall Named First Team All-SEC

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Junior standout Ryan Hall was named First Team All-SEC the league office announced Friday in its annual men’s golf awards. Hall is the 18^th All-SEC player under head coach Bill McDonald since 2007. He’s the 12^th golfer in program history to be named First Team All-SEC since South Carolina joined the league in 1992.
 
Hall, who was recently named to the 2021 U.S. Arnold Palmer Cup Team, has had an outstanding third year on campus for the Gamecocks. He’s put together one of the finest single seasons in program history, finishing in the top-20 in all nine of his starts so far in 2020-21.
 
The Knoxville, Tenn., native is the fifth ranked player in the country via the latest Golfstat Player Rankings. Hall’s 69.81 scoring average is seventh in the nation overall and leads all players with 27 rounds or more played. His nine eagles are T-3^rd nationally and he’s one of 33 players in the country with 100 or more birdies (105). He is also T-3^rd in par-4 scoring average (3.94).
 
Hall’s five top-10s and three top-fives are both career best marks. He kept his top-20 streak alive with a T-12^th finish at the 2021 SEC Championship (April 21-23), climbing 23 spots on the leaderboard in a windy final round at Sea island Golf Club with a 2-under 68.
 
The Knoxville, Tenn., native won the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational on Easter Sunday for his first win (second career) of the 2020-21 season. He shot 202 (-14) with a bogey free 66 (-6) in the second round and a carded final round 64 (-8) to force a playoff with Pepperdine’s Dylan Menante. Hall made birdie on both playoff holes to win and earn a sponsor exemption into the PGA TOUR’s 3M Open this summer in Blaine, Minn.
 
2021 SEC Men’s Golf Awards

FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Segundo Oliva Pinto, Arkansas
Ryan Hall, South Carolina
Sam Bennett, Texas A&M
Davis Thompson, Georgia
William Moll, Vanderbilt
Trent Phillips, Georgia
Ford Clegg, Mississippi State
Jackson Suber, Ole Miss
Wilson Furr, Alabama
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Julian Perico, Arkansas
Ross Steelman, Missouri
Andrew Kozan, Auburn
Thomas Ponder, Alabama
Hunter Wolcott, Tennessee
Dan Erickson, Texas A&M
Garrett Barber, LSU
Ricky Castillo, Florida
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Scott Limbaugh, Vanderbilt
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Davis Thompson, Georgia
 
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Joe Pagdin, Florida
 
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Ford Clegg, Mississippi State
 
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Joe Pagdin, Florida
Jim Butler, Auburn
Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt
Tyler Wilkes, Florida
Canon Claycomb, Alabama
Manuel Lozada, Arkansas
Daniel Rodrigues, Texas A&M
 
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