{"id":508341,"date":"2026-02-27T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:36:13","slug":"charley-hull-challenging-at-womens-world-championship-despite-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508341\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Hull: Challenging At Women’s World Championship Despite Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charley Hull<\/a> admits she shouldn’t have made the trip to the HSBC Women’s World Championship after being in hospital last weekend.<\/p>\n

Hull revealed that she spent time in hospital on Saturday with an unspecified illness that delayed her departure out to Singapore.<\/p>\n

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That meant Hull did not arrive at Sentosa Golf Club<\/a> until Tuesday evening, leaving just a day to acclimatize to the weather conditions and practice on the course.<\/p>\n

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She opened the tournament with a 72 but then despite everything managed to shoot 67 to sit just four shots off leader Auston Kim heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t felt like a hundred percent this week,” said Hull after her second round. “I was meant to fly out on I think it was Saturday night and I couldn’t fly because I was ill.<\/p>\n

“So I flew out on Monday. Monday, so Tuesday so a quick turnaround. The heat gets to you but it’s good.”<\/p>\n

When asked what exactly her illness was, Hull did not specify but did say that she was now over her problems.<\/p>\n

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“I just had some health issues,” she added. “But I’m feeling a lot better now.”<\/p>\n

As is the usual way with one of golf’s biggest free spirits, Hull admits she should not have made the trip so soon after being ill.<\/p>\n

But with a break in her schedule coming up, she didn’t want to go too long without playing a tournament heading towards the opening women’s Major of 2026<\/a> – the Chevron Championship in April.<\/p>\n

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“A hundred percent, I shouldn’t have come here but I really wanted to play because I would have had four or five weeks off,” said Hull.<\/p>\n

“So I wanted to just come out and play anyway.”<\/p>\n

Hull had some health challenges last year, including back and ankle injuries along with collapsing on the course at the Evian Championship due to a virus.<\/p>\n

She’s started 2026 nicely though, with a fifth career LET victory at the PIF Saudi Ladies International<\/a> earlier this month that saw her become the highest ranked Englishwoman ever at World No.3.<\/p>\n

And Hull will hope for a clean bill of health in 2026 as with the form she’s in a first Major title will be well within her sights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charley Hull admits she shouldn’t have made the trip to the HSBC Women’s World Championship after being in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-508341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}