<\/p>\n The maiden win came the following year in Morocco and she\u2019s now won nine times as a professional. The consensus is that that number should be higher but she \u2019s currently the World No. 3 and she\u2019s played on seven Solheim Cup<\/a> teams.<\/p>\n Article continues below <\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n But still there\u2019s the nagging feeling for some that she\u2019s somehow underperformed. While the Majors might not quite be the yardstick that they are in the men\u2019s game, the question of when it\u2019s going to happen is repeated again and again and again.<\/p>\n Instead of celebrating her swing, strength, incredible short game, little quirks and even her longevity, we somehow also fixate over the lack of a Major trophy.<\/p>\n Only Dame Laura Davies<\/a>, Alison Nicholas, Karen Stupples and Hull\u2019s great mate, Georgia Hall<\/a>, have managed it in the history of English women\u2019s golf but the thinking is that should have happened by now.<\/p>\n There have been enough close shaves to suspect that it will be when rather than if \u2013 10 career top 10s and three second places since 2023. There was the \u2018Shy kids don\u2019t get sweets\u2019 moment at Pebble Beach when she took on Pebble Beach\u2019s 18th green, three Majors later she threatened again at Walton Heath<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her last Major start, at Royal Porthcawl<\/a>, also promised much where she would come up just two shots shy of Miyu Yamashita. A few weeks earlier she had been forced to withdraw at The Evian<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Charley Hull tees off the 12th hole in the final round of the 2024 AIG Women’s Open<\/p>\n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cFor all the talk of she’s not won a Major, Charley\u2019s proved to herself that she can do it and particularly on home soil when there is pressure. She went into the AIG Women\u2019s Open last year having fainted at Evian, there were injury niggles and she came in a bit underprepared. Being on home soil where there’s a bit of pressure is not easy but, what she did in Wales, was very, very impressive. Her game was a slow burner but it then built and built and it came good. I was really impressed with her at that week,\u201d explains leading analyst Sophie Walker.<\/a><\/p>\n As for the underperforming, that\u2019s not even on Walker\u2019s radar. “It disappoints me when people say she’s underachieved because she hasn’t won a Major. She could have had three or four Majors, comfortably, without doing anything wrong but it hasn\u2019t happened yet. She is the face of women’s golf in Britain, if not the world. She is the person that you would pay money to go and watch. If you had to pick a fourball, who do you want to play with? It would begin with Charley.<\/p>\n What to read next<\/p>\n \u201cShe gives it everything. She lives and breathes golf, as well as looking like quite a normal girl, which makes her relatable in that sense. You feel something when you watch her. I had a tear in my eye at the end in Wales. One, I was proud of her and two, I was gutted for her. She makes you feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Charley Hull with longtime caddie Adam Woodward<\/p>\n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n In many ways we\u2019ve rarely seen anyone quite like Charley in the game. She\u2019s certainly not from the privileged route that some golfers have begun life on and she\u2019s a hard one to work out when we listen to her interviews. The answers are pretty clipped and to the point, but we\u2019ve also been following her progress for almost 15 years and she\u2019s never once let herself down.<\/p>\n Her heroes are Seve Ballesteros <\/a>and Davies and she plays the game similar to them, taking on flags and generally pulling some incredible shots off.<\/p>\n \u201cThe longevity of their careers and their Solheim and Ryder Cup records will be similar to Charley\u2019s. But they\u2019ve won Majors and I would assume there would be times in her life that the obsession of not winning one would get to her but she’ll be absolutely alright if she doesn’t win a Major because, in terms of family, friends and all that type of thing, she’s not one to dwell on moments.<\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as she hadn’t got it over the line in Wales she looked way more composed than the rest of us. So if she doesn’t get a Major then she will think about it but it won’t make her life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThings turn around. We could be talking to her in two years’ time and she might have three of them. Sometimes they come in clusters and, once you get one, you get two. This year\u2019s US Women\u2019s Open<\/a> is at Riviera so that would be a great story, wouldn’t it? The big Hollywood finish.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Charley](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kAMbraphGAvc3t2KLMR8Rh.jpg\")
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