On one hand it seems faintly ridiculous to think that today (20 March) Charley Hull is celebrating her 30th birthday; on the other, she seems to have been around forever.
Aged nine her name popped up when she won a Ladies’ Golf Union event at Turnberry when, playing off a handicap of 26, she beat a 46-year-old woman in a play-off. She achieved plenty in the amateur game and was part of a brilliant Curtis Cup team to prevail at Nairn and her first five starts on the Ladies European Tour produced five runners-up finishes.
The maiden win came the following year in Morocco and she’s now won nine times as a professional. The consensus is that that number should be higher but she ’s currently the World No. 3 and she’s played on seven Solheim Cup teams.
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But still there’s the nagging feeling for some that she’s somehow underperformed. While the Majors might not quite be the yardstick that they are in the men’s game, the question of when it’s going to happen is repeated again and again and again.
Only Dame Laura Davies, Alison Nicholas, Karen Stupples and Hull’s great mate, Georgia Hall, have managed it in the history of English women’s golf but the thinking is that should have happened by now.
There have been enough close shaves to suspect that it will be when rather than if – 10 career top 10s and three second places since 2023. There was the ‘Shy kids don’t get sweets’ moment at Pebble Beach when she took on Pebble Beach’s 18th green, three Majors later she threatened again at Walton Heath.
Charley Hull tees off the 12th hole in the final round of the 2024 AIG Women’s Open
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“For all the talk of she’s not won a Major, Charley’s proved to herself that she can do it and particularly on home soil when there is pressure. She went into the AIG Women’s Open last year having fainted at Evian, there…
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