{"id":834242,"date":"2026-07-30T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:13:09","slug":"charley-hull-tells-critics-of-lottery-card-prank-to-loosen-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834242\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Hull tells critics of lottery card prank to ‘loosen up’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who would have thought a lottery ticket prank<\/a> could be this divisive?<\/p>\n

Criticism of Charley Hull\u2019s trick on her caddie, Adam Woodward, earlier this week at the AIG Women\u2019s Open<\/a> finally reached the world\u2019s No. 7-player after she carded a 2-under 69 on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The five-time major runner-up openly rejected the feedback, and told reporters she holds no regrets for duping her caddie into believing he won $100,000 on a fake scratch-off. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd people that have complains about it, I would say loosen up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hull sits T-8 after the opening round<\/a> at Royal Lytham. She took one opening question about her round before taking a quadrant of follow-ups<\/a> about whether or not she would still buy the fake lotto tickets and deploy them the way she did.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, 100 percent,\u201d Hull said in her post-round interview. “[Adam] thought it was funny after. He\u2019s not uptight. Like it\u2019s a joke. If people don\u2019t like it, they can lump it \u2014 do you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Englishwoman said she was unaware of the reaction to the prank as she deletes social media apps from her phone during tournament week in attempt \u201cto keep in the present moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she\u2019ll re-add the apps when she goes home but still never reads the comments online.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I just got to have a good week, and at the end of the week I\u2019ll buy him 100 scratch cards,\u201d she said. \u201cHopefully he can earn more money than that as well this week if we play well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watch the second round of the AIG Women\u2019s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham Saint Annes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who would have thought a lottery ticket prank could be this divisive? Criticism of Charley Hull\u2019s trick on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-834242","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\/834242","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=834242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}