{"id":37475,"date":"2025-08-01T05:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:54:15","slug":"why-i-dont-watch-golf-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37475\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy I don\u2019t watch golf anymore\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charley<\/p>\n

\t\t\tCharley Hull heads into the AIG Women\u2019s Open as one of the names to watch \u2013 but you wouldn\u2019t know it from talking to her.<\/p>\n

Charley Hull is riding a run of strong major form this summer, with top-15 finishes at the US Women\u2019s Open and KPMG Women\u2019s PGA, and a third place in the Aramco Team Series. But after illness forced her out of the Evian Championship, and with Royal Porthcawl\u2019s exposed links layout on her mind, Hull admits she\u2019s not feeling like a favorite.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t think the British Open on links suits me the most,\u201d she concedes. \u201cWhen we play in Walton Heath or Woburn, I always find those kind of courses suit my game a lot more. It\u2019s more visually off the tee. I find links quite intimidating. That\u2019s why I always find that I play well at the US Open, but I think I\u2019ve got to get that out of my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull says she\u2019s lost 4kg in weight and 8mph in clubhead speed due to a recent virus, but insists she still has what it takes to win her first major this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the last two years I\u2019ve been on autopilot, where even when I\u2019m hitting it bad, I\u2019ve got enough confidence to go out and rip it,\u201d she says. \u201cEven leading up to this event, I had 12th at the US Open and 12th at the Women\u2019s PGA of America, and then a third. Last week I was coming back and I finished 21st, and then I had to pull out at Evian.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt annoys me because it\u2019s such an important part this time of the season, and it\u2019s something I look forward to all year. At the end of the day, just get me making a few birdies to start with and I think I\u2019ll get my confidence back straight away. I\u2019m feeling good now. Hopefully all the practice I\u2019ve done the last two days is going to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that Hull, the longtime starlet of British women\u2019s golf, may benefit from 21-year-old sensation Lottie Woad taking some of the limelight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care about being up in the headlines,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t really read the headlines. I literally go out there and play golf and play good and hopefully get my name on the trophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to win a major title. I want to see my name on the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a grounded approach from one of the game\u2019s most instinctive talents. And while the 29-year-old Englishwoman clearly loves competing, she doesn\u2019t exactly live and breathe the sport off the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t really watch golf now, really,\u201d she admits. \u201cI think golf back 20, 30 years ago, up to the 2000s, it was more of an art. The players, even then men, would have to hit draws and fades, where I think now it\u2019s become more of a power game. The technology has advanced so much everyone can just hit it straight and far, and it\u2019s kind of taken the art away from it.<\/p>\n

Hull says she does watch golf, but winds back the clock to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I watch golf, I\u2019ll watch who won the British Open in the 1970s and that. I find it way more interesting back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

She might not be glued to the coverage \u2013 but if Hull can bring her best to Porthcawl, there\u2019s every chance she becomes the one to watch this week.<\/p>\n

\t\tAbout the author<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Rob
\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

Contributing Editor (mainly contributing unwanted sarcasm and iffy golf takes, to be honest)<\/p>\n

Rob has been a writer and editor for over 15 years, covering all manner of subjects, including a hefty dose of golf.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s played golf with tour pros and celebrities including Greg Norman, Charley Hull, Matt Wallace, Long Driver World Champion Joe Miller, and Rob Brydon, watched The Open with Gary Player, and had a pull-up contest with Rory McIlroy. He\u2019s interviewed countless tour pros and will always have a soft spot for Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charley Hull heads into the AIG Women\u2019s Open as one of the names to watch \u2013 but you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}