Enjoyed great success his final two years after not qualifying for the travel team at all in 2008-09 … Earned top-10 finishes at both the ACC and NCAA Championships as a junior, then won the ACC Championship and the Yellow Jacket Classic in 2011 … Played solidly in some fall events as a sophomore after red-shirting in 2006-07.
2010-11: All-ACC performer who won two events, including medalist honors at the ACC Championship, winning by one stroke (10-under-par 206) over teammate Kyle Scott … Won the Yellow Jacket Classic, his first career victory, the week before … Five top-10 finishes as a senior and eight in his career … The wins boosted him almost 100 spots to No. 54 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index, finished at No. 68 … Averaged 72.97 over 35 rounds, 18th in the ACC … Also finished in the top 10 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate, Ping/Golfweek Preview, USCC … Went 3-1 in the Callaway Match Play Championship.
2009-10: Enjoyed a fine post-season, going T4 at the ACC Championship and T9 at the NCAA Championship … Earned honorable mention All-America status with his top-15 NCAA finish … Finished the spring ranked No. 202 in the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings (out of 1582)… Averaged 71.22 in three post-season events … Qualified to play in all but one tournament, finishing in the top 20 five times … ACC Championship performance (6-inder 210) was his best career finish and helped Tech to the team title … T14 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate to lead the team to a third-place finish, and added a T19 at the Linger Longer Invitational and a T15 at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate … Averaged 73.71 strokes in 31 rounds, 28 counting for the team … Spring average was 73.79.
2007-08: Played in seven events overall, five of them as a travel team member … Averaged 75.10 strokes over 20 total rounds … Counted for the team in 10 of 15 rounds … Top finish was a T-7 at the Yale Spring Opener, in which he played as an individual … Top performance in a team event was a T-23 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate, and went 3-1 at the Callaway Golf Match Play Championship.
ACC Championship experience: T4 in his first try in 2010, posting a 6-under 210 score … Won with a 10-under-par 206 in 2011 … 69.33 stroke average in six rounds.
NCAA Championship experience: T9 in his first NCAA Finals opportunity in 2010 (4-under 212), T20 as a senior … T41 and T42 in his two regional appearances … 72.58 average in 12 NCAA rounds … Went 0-2 in NCAA match play.
Amateur: 2010: Qualified for U.S. Amateur … 2007: High finish of T-35 at the Southern Amateur … 2006: Won the Texas State Amateur Championship … Made the cut in the Texas State Open (amateur and pro players).
High School: Played on four consecutive Texas state high school championship teams at Highland Park High School, the first Highland Park player ever to accomplish that feat … Three-time first-team all-state selection (2004, 2005, 2006) … Tied for the individual state title in 2004, finished fifth in 2003 and third in 2006 … Had a top-20 ranking in 2005, and made the EA Sports high school All-America team in 2005 and 2006 … First-team All-Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2004 and 2006
Junior Golf: First-team Rolex Junior All-American in 2004 … 2002 FCWT All-American … Highest junior ranking was No. 5 in the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings (2004), No. 7 by Golf Digest in 2004 … Tournament highlights include wins at the Robert Trent Jones Junior Classic and Carolina Dunlop Classic in 2004 … Was the first alternate at the 2005 U.S. Junior Amateur after shooting 67-67 (10-under-par) … Top-10 finishes at the AJGA Thunderbird International Junior (9th) and the AJGA Ping Junior at the Woodlands (2nd) in 2006, the AJGA Randy Smith Classic and Thunderbird Invitational in 2005, and the AJGA United Supermarkets and Taylor Made-Adidas Classics in 2004 … Three top-10 finishes in the EDS Byron Nelson Junior.
Personal: Full name is Paul Douglas Haley II … Born January 20, 1988 in Dallas … Son of Paul and Cathy Haley … His father played four years of baseball at Oral Roberts … Enjoys basketball, football, table tennis, movies and church … Majoring in Management.
Collegiate Tournament Results
| 2007-08 | ||
| T23 | Carpet Capital Collegiate (+4) | 77-73-70 – 220 |
| T39 | Brickyard Collegiate (+6) | 72-71-79 – 222 |
| T66 | Isleworth-UCF Collegiate (+11) | 75-74-78 – 227 |
| – | Callaway Golf Collegiate Match Play | 3-1 |
| T53 | UH Hilo Invitational (+5) | 72-69-74 – 215 |
| T78 | Puerto Rico Classic (+25) | 80-72-89 – 241 |
| 61# | United States Collegiate Championship (+16) | 73-83-76 – 232 |
| T7# | Yale Spring Opener (+5) | 69-76 – 145 |
| 2009-10 | ||
| T14 | Carpet Capital Collegiate (E) | 72-73-71 – 216 |
| T40 | Mason Rudolph Intercollegiate (+3) | 73-72 – 145 |
| T64 | Brickyard Collegiate (+9) | 77-76 – 153 |
| T85 | Mauna Lani Invitational (+1) | 79-78-77 – 234 |
| T47 | Puerto Rico Classic (-11) | 70-74-76 – 220 |
| T43 | Southern Highlands Collegiate (+18) | 75-81-80 – 236 |
| T19 | Linger Longer Invitational (+9) | 77-73-71 – 221 |
| T15 | Wolfpack Intercollegiate (+8) | 72-73-74 – 219 |
| T4 | ACC Championship (+2) | 71-69-70 – 210 |
| T41 | NCAA Southeast Regional (-1) | 75-76-68 – 219 |
| T9 | NCAA Championship (-1) | 70-69-73 – 212 |
| L | NCAA Match Play (Carter Newman, Augusta State) | 1-up |
| 2010-11 | ||
| T7 | Carpet Capital Collegiate (-3) | 70-68-75 – 213 |
| T10 | PING/Golfweek Preview Invitational (+5) | 75-73-73 – 221 |
| T68 | Brickyard Collegiate (+15) | 78-77-76 – 231 |
| T7 | United States Collegiate Championship (-1) | 71-69-75 – 215 |
| T23 | Western Refining College All-American (+2) | 72-73-70 – 215 |
| T51 | Amer Ari Invitational (+1) | 72-70-75 – 217 |
| T23 | Puerto Rico Classic (+1) | 71-74-72 – 217 |
| T60 | Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters (+16) | 77-75-80 – 232 |
| – | Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship | 3-1 |
| 1 | Yellow Jacket Classic (-5) | 71-68 – 139 |
| 1 | Atlantic Coast Conference Championship (-10) | 68-68-70 – 206 |
| T42 | NCAA East Regional (+12) | 76-76-76 – 228 |
| T20 | NCAA Championship (+4) | 71-72-77 – 220 |
| L | NCAA Match Play Championship (Carter Newman, Augusta State) | 2-up |
#played as an individual
| Career Statistics | ||||||||||
| Year | Trn | T10 | T20 | Rnds/Cnt | Strk | Avg. | Lo | Hi | Par | 60s |
| 2007-08 | 7 | 1 | 1 | #20/10 | 1502 | 75.10 | 69 | 89 | 6 | 2 |
| 2009-10 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 31/28 | 2285 | 73.71 | 68 | 81 | 10 | 3 |
| 2010-11 | 12 | 5 | 6 | #35/24 | 2554 | 72.97 | 68 | 80 | 16 | 5 |
| Total | 30 | 8 | 12 | #86/62 | 6341 | 73.73 | 68 | 89 | 32 | 10 |
#includes rounds played as an individual
Career low round: 68 (-4), NCAA Southeast Regional, 3rd round, 2010; Carpet Capital Collegiate, 2nd round, 2010; Yellow Jacket Classic, 2011; ACC Championship, 1st and 2nd rounds, 2011
Career low tournament score: 206 (-10), ACC Championship, 2011
Career best finish: 1st, Yellow Jacket Classic, 2011; ACC Championship, 2011
