Charley Hull makes honest admission about Royal Lytham ahead of the Women’s Open, ‘I’m not going to lie’
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Charley Hull has admitted that Royal Lytham and St Annes is not a golf course that suits her eye as she insisted that she will not be putting any pressure on herself over the coming days.
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Unfortunately, Hull is more than aware what the main talking point will be any time she pitches up to a major championship.
The Brit is undoubtedly one of the most talented players in the game. She is certainly one of the sport’s most popular characters. However, the 30-year-old is still awaiting her first major victory.
Charley Hull says how well Royal Lytham and St Annes suits her game
Charley Hull has come close to winning one of the game’s five biggest events on a number of occasions, most recently, at Riviera earlier this year when she finished one shot behind Nelly Korda at the US Women’s Open.
It still feels like a matter of time before she does manage to win a major. However, perhaps there is reason to think that the victory is less likely to come this week.
Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of Thursday’s opening round, Hull conceded that Royal Lytham is not necessarily a course that plays to her strengths.
Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images“I’m not going to lie, it’s not really a layout that suits my eye. I feel like Riviera suited my eye really, really well, but that’s the beauty of golf, you’re not on the same golf course every week, especially links golf. I’m more of a tree-line, putt-line kind of player, I visually see it. But this is tight. So this is one of the tightest courses we play, tricky out the bunkers,” she said.
“I always say the US Open and the Women’s AIG are the two that I really want to win. But I’m not going to try and put any pressure on myself this championship. I came second last year, came second at the Women’s US Open about six or seven weeks ago. Form has been a bit hit and miss this year, I’ve had a win and three top 10s, and obviously second in the US Open. But it’s just my weeks that I’m not quite playing well, it’s because my injuries flare up, but I feel like I’m managing it pretty good, so hopefully I’m fit for this week.”
How Charley Hull has been driving the ball as she prepares for the Women’s Open
It may well be a tactic from Hull to downplay expectations going into the opening round. Unfortunately, one of her bigger problems has been getting off to slower starts, which have left her with too much to do on the weekend.
But it seems that there have been some positive signs in the practice rounds ahead of the final major of the year.
Dame Laura Davies was also speaking to Sky Sports about Hull’s chances this week, and she suggested that there is a quiet confidence within her camp.
“She’s had five runner-ups in majors, which is brilliant. That shows you can go down the stretch in a major. I don’t remember her ever being at the point where she let it go. Someone has always come and beat her in those five runner-up places that I can remember,” she said.
“So it’s not the fact that she can’t get over the line. It was their day, it wasn’t her day. So yeah, you’d have to say you fancy her chances, but when you hear her say things like, ‘it doesn’t really fit my eye’, she likes a target, she likes a tree, she likes Adam to say, ‘aim at that tree’, little fade, little draw, whatever. But she’s learning.
“I spoke to Adam this afternoon, he said they’ve got a plan for the course and can they put it in play? He said that they’ve found something. She’s driving it really nicely, really long. Whether they use driver a lot round here, we’ll just have to wait and see. It’s such a good course.”
Hull has finished second at two of the previous three Women’s Opens. Meanwhile, she has only finished outside the top 25 on one of the nine occasions in which she has made the cut.
So if she does manage to get off to a strong start over Thursday and Friday, she will almost certainly be one of the players the rest of the field are most concerned about.