Harry Hall reflects on a consistent second round at the BMW Championship, highlighting strong putting, strategic course management, and improvements tee-to-green. He shares insights on his development as a putter, his passion for data and analytics, and his quiet motivation to earn a Ryder Cup spot. An honest look at a player focused on smart golf and steady progress.
All right, Harry, solid round. Put yourself in contention. I know Bob’s pretty far out there right now, but just still top five as we speak. Kind of what do you like about what you’ve done the first two days? Yeah, hit the ball nice. Um, found some fairways out there and haven’t put myself into trouble too much. If you hit the greens around here, um, there’s a lot of bowls, you know, so using picking what holes you can really attack and which ones you can’t. And I puted nice, too. wondering, you look at your statistical profile from this year. It looks relatively similar to years past. You’re obviously having a very good putting season, but this is probably your most consistent year on tour. What do you attribute that consistency to? Yeah, putting I’ve got a little bit better. Um, but not much. The big the big thing is probably not losing a stroke to the to green and just being average, which I knew if I could just be average to the to green, then I’d have a very good year. Um, and it’s looking like all the numbers are saying that I’m I’m I’m average to the green. So, um, it’s really nice. Yeah. Have you always been a great putter? Like even back to junior days, was that always the strength of your game? Uh, I remember in my junior days, I could putt great, but I wasn’t always a great putter. Um, when I got to UNLV and uh worked with Coach Knight, who’s a renowned putting guy, he really helped my technique. I remember when I got there, I used to putt way different. Now I’m probably a lot more modern and um yeah, ever since I’ve started using my feet to read the greens as well, that’s that’s helped a lot. Is that what you refer to when you say modern? just like aim pointing aim point. No, more like stance and stuff. I remember like when I got to UNLV, I’d set up really open and be hunched over and kind of feel the putts and then he got me, you know, very square, very upright. Um, so that’s why I feel like more athletic. Yeah. Obviously playing well at a good time for as a European player. Have you had many convos with any of the RDER Cup leadership? Is you’re I’m sure hoping to try to make that team. No conversations recently. No, just trying to play golf. And is that is it on your mind? Yeah, it has been the last couple weeks, you know. Um but yeah, just got one job to do and that’s go recover now and get ready for tomorrow. Did you at least go through a fitting for the team uniform and all that sort of stuff? Uh, no I haven’t. What would it mean to to do that to be on that team? Yeah, it’ be massive. I remember growing up and uh Phil Row, my assistant coach in college and he was like my idol growing up. He played in the Walker Cup in 99 and uh we have his uh bag in the clubhouse and people always used to say, “H, you are you going to put a Walker Cup bag up there one day?” And I always said, “Ride a cup one. How do you feel like the heat today has changed maybe how you prepare or you know your time out on the court today? Can you say that again? Sorry. Like the heat, how has the temperature kind of changed or impacted the way that you’ve either prepared or dealt with it on the course? Yeah, normally I work out uh Friday or Thursday mornings. um you know, lift heavy. But this week, I just knew it’d be such a strenuous week walking around this course and with the temperatures, I just stuck to my you know, working out on Tuesday and then doing a little warm up before I go out there. Um and then obviously drinking a lot of electrolytes and yeah, just trying to get through it. Um felt like I’ve done a good job, you know, staying healthy this year and working out a lot and I feel good. How big a goal has Dor Championship been for you? Um, not that big of a goal if I’m honest. Um, it was more so just getting a little bit better at everything and, you know, getting better at Tea Green. I knew that was where I could um, make the most improvement and I knew if I did that then I could, you know, gain a shot around or, you know, close to. Um, and I think I’m doing that this year. So I I knew if I like to look at the numbers and I know if I can just average, you know, gaining one point. Two strokes a round, then it equates to playing really good golf and getting really far in a FedEx cup. I apologize if you already answered this, but how important do you think that up and down on 18 was to kind of keep momentum into the weekend? Uh not that important, I don’t think. Uh you know, there’ll be up and downs that I don’t get this weekend. Um, so yeah, just made a really good decision actually to leave me a good number coming in. I could get a nine out of the rough on the last, but it would have left me 60 yards and I kind of wanted 75 and I left myself 70, but I knew that was that was better than like being 55 for me. Um, use that back stop and spin it back like I did. So, um, just little things like that, making good decisions has been a priority of mine recently. You’ve referenced it a couple times just saying numbers to us, you know, average strokes gained 1.2. Are you a guy that pays close attention to kind of the analytics or the stat statistics and what you’re doing? Yeah, always been like that. Uh, yeah, I’d say so. Um, definitely with the when I’ve had access to the data. I remember getting to UNLV and I’d never hit on a Trackman or anything like that until I was 18 and um yeah, just all those all the bits that you can use these days to get better whether it’s Trackman or Data and when I had that accessible I really tried to get to use it. Are you still using the same driver that you had at the beginning of the year? Yeah. And are you surprised at all that you haven’t heard from Luke Donald or somebody from the writer? Luke texts me now and then, but I haven’t got any measurements for my clothes. All right, Eric. Thank you. Thank you.
