Hope and Alana Hall are reuniting at the PGA Works Collegiate Championship this week. The sisters were born prematurely, weighing less than 1.5 pounds each.

In 2009, Marvin Hall started playing golf on a doctor’s advice. He hoped it would help improve his daughters’ muscle and movement skills.

Seventeen years later, both sisters are now Division I college golfers. They are going together to the PGA Works Collegiate Championship in West Palm Beach, Florida and aim to inspire the next generation of minority golfers.

The tournament will take place from May 4 to 6 at The Park. It is organized by the PGA of America to give minority college golfers a chance to compete. Hope, who is a senior at Dartmouth, and Alana, who is a sophomore at Lehigh, will both play as individual competitors.

Hope has a special place at Dartmouth. She became the first Black female golfer at the Ivy League school in 40 years when she joined in fall 2022.

Right now, she is the only Black female golfer competing in the league. This season, she has had four top-15 finishes, including a tied 14th-place finish at the Ivy League Championship.

Alana arrives with fresh momentum, a T-9 at the Patriot League Championship, her best finish of the 2025-26 season.

"I didn't get into it last year," Alana said of the PWCC. "So for me, that shows what I've been working towards, the type of work I've put in for myself."

The sisters grew up playing golf in Boca Raton, Florida. They spent their summers there, playing from early morning until they were told to leave.

However, their early environment reflected a lack of diversity in the sport.

"When I was younger, there were very few Black golfers, there were very few underrepresented minorities in golf," Hope recalled. "Anywhere I'd go, I would leave the state, and I still wouldn't find anybody."

This lack of representation drives their motivation on and off the course.

The Hall Sisters Are Becoming the Role Models They Never Had

Numbers show that it is changing. The National Golf Foundation reported in 2025 that junior golfers of color now make up 26 percent of the total, up from just 6 percent two decades ago.

The sisters share an Instagram account, hoping young girls see themselves in two competitive women golfers of color.

At one point, a woman at their new course told them her daughter followed the account and drew inspiration from watching them.

"I think visibility is always important," Hope said. Each round of the PWCC will air live on Golf Channel from 4 to 7 p.m. ET.

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Written by

Sneha Abraham

Edited by

Pulkit Prabhav