Jack Hall garners accolade amid health battle
By Everett Munez • June 11, 2026
On Wednesday, Jack Hall and David Millis were announced as the newest inductees into the National Senior Amateur Hall of Fame. But while Millis was present in High Point, North Carolina, for the ceremony, Hall was not. About a month ago, Hall’s life was flipped on its head.
Following an emergency room visit and a CT scan, doctors discovered a cue ball-sized mass on Hall’s jejunum, a section of the small intestine. Originally, the radiologist predicted Hall had a gastrointestinal stromal tumor, which gave Hall a grim picture.
“When you look at that and you think four months to 12 months, your life goes into turmoil,” Hall said.
But after surgery that removed the mass, the pathologist gave Hall favorable news. It was lymphoma, still cancer, but treatable with chemotherapy, which Hall started a week after Memorial Day. While he was lying in his hospital bed, the former No. 1 senior amateur’s phone was continually lighting up. Hall’s impact on amateur golf goes far beyond the course.
“I hope I don’t get choked up,” Hall said. “I was on my back for eight days. And in those eight days I probably had 400-500 texts from all over the country. It humbles you. Yeah you can be competitive, but at the end of the day I love these guys. It’s a tight-knit family with a common bond over the love of golf.”
Hall didn’t grow up in a family of means, so he looks back with appreciation on his dad’s decision to join Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta when Hall was 10.
“I remember that the initiation fee was $500 and that was a stretch for him,” Hall said. “But he did it for us. And you look back now and I’m sure that my family didn’t go on a lot of vacations at all to allow me and my brother the opportunity to play golf.”
At the same time Hall started hitting balls, he started working on the golf course to earn extra money. Now a real-estate developer, he says he’s never been without a full-time job.