You could say Ryan Hall broke the mold – at least initially.
Hall’s father, Brian, played college golf for Walters State, a community college in Morristown, Tennessee, and later became the superintendent at Centennial Golf Course when the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, course opened in 1996. Ryan was born a few years later yet quickly showed more interest in baseball than golf.
“My dad would promise me Reese’s Cups if I finished six holes,” Ryan recalls, “so I’d whack it around for six holes, he’d give me some Reese’s Cups and then I’d be finished.”
The skinny kid clearly didn’t need the incentive for very long.