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Charley Hull needs to play the first hole well or badly, according to her. “If I don’t start with a birdie or a bogey and I just make a lot of pars, I get quite frustrated and bored. If I start with a bogey, it’s like, right, I’ve got to fight back now and it’s really interesting. And if I start with birdie, it’s like, let’s see how many holes I can birdie.”
She lives only half an hour from the course and has played round here earlier in the year. “I’ve actually played it a few times but not off these tees. Like, I’ve played it with my friends and we’ve both been off the backs, so it’s actually playing quite short out there, and I think it will be very scoreable.”
She is just about to tee off in a group with two two-time two-time Major champions in Lydia Ko and World No. 1, Nelly Korda.
Will it play long? Will it score low?
The short answer, of course, is that only time will tell. But of the 30 golfers out on the course only Yan Liu is under par. But several of the overseas golfers have remarked in pre-tournament press conferences how the course is playing long, However two Englishwomen in the field disagreed.
“I think there’s definitely a score out there,” reckoned Georgia Hall. “I’ve heard that some players have said it’s long, and I disagree. I don’t think it’s long; I think that it plays how a Major should play. They should be tougher than other events.
“It’ll be interesting to see what they do with the pins because you can tuck them in quite good spots out there. The greens are running great, so I think if you hit the fairway, you’ve got a good chance, but we’ll see how the scoring is on Thursday and Friday and if they need to make it hard on the weekend, I am sure they will.”
Charley Hull also believed that “it’s actually playing quite short out there, and I think it will be very scoreable.”
THE SUN IS SHINING AS WE GET UNDERWAY
Morning all, another Major is with us, and the weather in England is even bright and sunny today for the first round of the AIG Women’s Open.
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