The former golf writer for The Bend Bulletin in Bend, Ore., Zack Hall is now an award-winning freelance writer with 14 years of newspaper experience, writing on subjects ranging from real estate to college football. He pioneered the real estate and construction beat in 2005 at the Reno Gazette-Journal, covering the meteoric rise of that region’s real estate market and its subsequent collapse. He authored one of the Gazette-Journal’s first blogs, and then went on to develop the Central Oregon golf beat after becoming The Bulletin’s first full-time golf writer. Hall also led a team of reporters and multiple photographers from 2007 through 2010 during the Jeld-Wen Tradition, a major championship on the Champions Tour.