{"id":154448,"date":"2025-09-19T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:59:08","slug":"charley-hull-gets-trump-golf-invite-at-state-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154448\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Hull gets Trump golf invite at state banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete CooperNorthamptonshire<\/p>\n

\"ReutersReuters<\/p>\n

Golfer Charley Hull was invited to the state banquet at Windsor Castle<\/p>\n

English golfer Charley Hull said Donald Trump invited her to play a game of golf when they spoke at the state banquet on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old was one of the 160 guests at the lavish dinner in Windsor Castle<\/a>, alongside the US president, Prime Minister Kier Starmer and King Charles III.<\/p>\n

Hull, from Kettering in Northamptonshire, won her third LGPA Tour title<\/a> last week at the Queen City Championship in Ohio.<\/p>\n

She said she spoke to Trump “for a little while, he was lovely man and I really got on with him”.<\/p>\n

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The banquet was part of Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit<\/p>\n

Fellow golfer Sir Nick Faldo and athlete Dame Katherine Grainger were among the other sports stars at the banquet.<\/p>\n

Trump’s passion for golf is well known and he owns 11 courses in the US and three in the UK.<\/p>\n

Hull said he had already been contact with her last year about playing together, but she was unable due to being on holiday.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio 5Live<\/a>, she said when she spoke to him at the dinner “he said he wanted to sort a game out”.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to try to sort a game out towards the end of the year and that’ll be pretty cool,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Charley Hull is world number 10 and has won eight career titles<\/p>\n

Speaking about the banquet the three-time major runner-up said: “It was an honour to be invited and it was a pretty incredible experience.”<\/p>\n

As well as Trump, Hull said she met Catherine, Princess of Wales, who she said was “an absolutely lovely woman”.<\/p>\n

She added she was “pretty chill” about the occasion and was most nervous about driving to and from the event having turned down a chauffeur.<\/p>\n

The president second state visit concluded on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete CooperNorthamptonshire Reuters Golfer Charley Hull was invited to the state banquet at Windsor Castle English golfer Charley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-154448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}