OLIVIA McMILLAN: We’re delighted to be joined by Charley Hull. Charley, thanks for becoming a member of us within the AIG Girls’s Open Media Centre. We’re right here at Walton Heath, and I feel you have got somewhat little bit of expertise enjoying the course. So are you able to share your ideas of it with us, please.
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I performed right here again in it was finish of February, starting of March and I performed with my buddy, Thomas, and yeah, I actually loved it again then. I performed a few occasions, and yeah, I actually, actually prefer it. It type of fits my eye. It’s good to be at dwelling. I’m staying at dwelling as a result of I solely dwell 35 minutes away. So it’s good.
OLIVIA McMILLAN: Clearly that is the primary time that the AIG Girls’s Open has returned to England since I feel 2019. As an English participant, it should be good to be again on dwelling soil and enjoying in a serious championship.
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, it’s. It’s actually good. It’s simply good to have dwelling comforts this week, and hopefully the climate will likely be a bit higher the following few days.
OLIVIA McMILLAN: You mentioned that you just’ve performed the course a couple of occasions. Clearly that heather, that’s what Walton Heath is understood for.
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I’ve really performed it a couple of occasions however I’ve not performed it off these tees. Like, I’ve performed it with my pals and we’ve each been off the backs, so it’s really enjoying fairly quick on the market, and I feel it will likely be very scorable.
OLIVIA McMILLAN: Clearly you’re saying that you just’re enjoying off totally different tees to what you’re used to. Do you assume that possibly that offers you an edge should you’re used to enjoying it longer?
CHARLEY HULL: Not essentially as a result of a couple of holes I received’t be hitting driver on, and that’s a rescue. It’s simply getting your head round that. There’s nothing an excessive amount of to fret about. Once I performed with my pals, I just about undergo each single shot and take driver on each gap. No matter I do, you want a driver, so I’d — with my caddie, he’s really telling me how one can play the golf course correctly.
Q. (What in regards to the course fits your eye)?
CHARLEY HULL: You possibly can type of simply see it proper forward of you, and you’ll type of see just like the fairways, the shapes and that the place hyperlinks generally it simply feels such as you’re hitting right into a subject. It’s good, it’s received the heather and the bushes on it, as effectively, despite the fact that there’s not loads of bushes. I similar to the texture of it.
Q. At Woburn, should you bear in mind going again a couple of years, you used to speak about taking the bushes with you while you went to a different event. You’ll say, all proper, I’ll fake there are bushes down the left, after which form your shot accordingly. Now this course will will let you do some little bit of that, received’t it?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, 100 per cent. It fits my eye. I actually do like this golf course. I performed right here first I feel again in 2013 really, and I actually appreciated it then, and it was with my dad. And I really performed with Sam Torrance on like a particular golf day.
Yeah, I’ve simply received some good reminiscences of this place. However it’s a good golf course and it’s not tremendous bouncy, so you may nonetheless hit the ball excessive, which I like.
Q. And are you continue to, going again to 2013, while you would have actually been walloping the ball with out having a second thought, do you hit it as arduous now as you probably did then?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I feel so — really, I don’t know. There are much more totally different pictures I hit now, like draw the ball, fade the ball, hit it excessive, hit it low. I don’t must hit it all the time arduous, however I prefer to decide to my pictures nonetheless.
Q. And what can be your favorite shot? If I requested you to putt on an indication straightaway, what would you supply to hit?
CHARLEY HULL: Properly, I’ve all the time seen the draw. If I hit a 2-yard draw, I see it in my head like as a fade. I prefer to see a 5-, 10-, 15-yard draw. That’s after I know I’m hitting at my greatest.
However clearly that’s not everybody’s ideally suited shot, however I really like a draw, despite the fact that I do discover it simpler to fabricate and hit a fade if I’ve to hit it right into a again proper pin than hitting a excessive draw right into a again left pin.
Q. Is there something specifically that you just’ve taken away from Pebble that you may carry into this week?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, simply making an attempt to — yeah, it’s a bit like — I’m a bizarre participant like that. If I don’t begin with a birdie or if I don’t begin with a bogey, I simply make loads of pars, I get fairly pissed off and bored. But it surely’s nearly if I begin with a bogey, it’s like, proper, I’ve received to combat again now and it’s actually attention-grabbing. And if I begin with birdie, it’s like, let’s see what number of holes I can birdie.
So I simply take that mindset of taking each shot because it comes and have that feeling even while you’re making a great deal of pars and stuff, as a result of on the finish of the day, you’ve received loads of probabilities for birdies on the market, and I similar to hitting the following pictures.
Q. Can I ask you about your group for rounds one and two?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I don’t even know who I’m enjoying with. Who am I enjoying with.
Q. Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko.
CHARLEY HULL: That will likely be enjoyable. I like them each. They’re each very nice. I like Nelly and I like Lydia. Clearly me and Lydia have performed so much collectively all through the years as a result of we’re turned professional pretty younger, and I’ll be trying ahead to that. That will likely be enjoyable. Have you learnt what occasions they’re?
Q. I can examine.
CHARLEY HULL: Thanks. Might as effectively get a line.
Q. What makes Lydia Ko such an excellent enjoying companion?
CHARLEY HULL: I like watching her across the greens, as a result of she will hit a great deal of totally different, like, flop pictures and I actually, actually like that. She’s good off tight lies.
Q. And when it comes to how she is while you’re enjoying along with her, is she very considerate?
CHARLEY HULL: Oh, she’s a stunning individual. She’s a extremely, very nice individual, Lydia is. Like, she’s only a fully regular individual. That’s what I like. She’s down-to-earth.
Q. I see. And what would she do that might please you? Would, say, she go and run and assist search for a ball or is she simply —
CHARLEY HULL: Quite a lot of gamers, it’s often a courtesy to assist the opposite participant search for a ball, however yeah, she’ll try this. Hopefully we don’t lose any on the market. She’s only a very nice individual, and so is Nelly. Nelly is a stunning individual as effectively.
I’m not likely a chatty individual on the golf course. I’m type of in my very own world and my very own bubble. I discuss to my caddie, however yeah, have a couple of phrases right here and there however they’re each very nice.
Q. Is that vital to have the ability to have somebody with whom you may work together on the best way round?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, 100 per cent. It actually doesn’t trouble me an excessive amount of. Like, in the event that they don’t discuss to me all the best way round, it wouldn’t trouble me as a result of I’m in my very own bubble, and so is loads of gamers on the market.
However no, they’re pretty individuals, particularly while you communicate to them within the gamers’ lounge and every part. They’re actually, very nice ladies.
Q. To start with, you’re off at 8.20.
CHARLEY HULL: Okay.
Q. How vital is a quick begin? It’s clearly an extended week.
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, clearly, like, you wish to get off to a quick begin as a result of it provides you good momentum for the remainder of the week.
However I don’t know, should you take a look at Pebble, I didn’t have the quickest of begins, however nonetheless all in regards to the mindset, actually, and by no means — by no means give in.
Q. Does that assist should you’re —
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, it’s like my buddy mentioned to me, he all the time used to say to me, “Winners don’t give up and quitters don’t win,” and that’s all the time caught in my head.
Q. And that offers you the mindset, I assume, that should you’re, you already know, 5 six again going into the ultimate spherical —
CHARLEY HULL: 100 per cent.
Q. You understand what you are able to do?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, you simply go for each pin. It’s loads of enjoyable that means.
OLIVIA McMILLAN: Can I simply ask you extra broadly about ladies’s sport? Clearly within the UK, ladies’s sport are having an actual second, England appears to be enjoying so effectively within the netball, within the soccer, and so on. How vital is it for you and the opposite gamers that golf turns into a part of that dialog and we’ve got an actual probability this week to make that occur?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, 100 per cent. Clearly after I was youthful, I by no means actually appeared as much as anybody aside from Laura, and I might all the time exit with the boys, and I wouldn’t change that for the world as a result of it made me the participant that I’m at the moment. However.
Yeah, it’s nice what they’re doing. I’m not likely into ladies’s soccer or netball, however I feel it’s good. And you already know, it’s nice for the longer term, and it will be good, like, occasions like this and America might be proven on TV over right here and getting younger children watching it, and that would be the subsequent era arising.
