Hull sets sights on unique double… if she can also beat the M25
Charley Hull has never competed in two different tournaments at two different courses in a day before, but, typical of the world-class golfer from Kettering, she looks at the challenge from another angle.
“The way I see it is that I’ve never won two titles in a day before,” Hull said.
Here is the 24-year-old’s opportunity, but to secure a unique double she will have to overcome some of the European Tour’s finest and some of the Ladies European Tour’s finest, not to mention a couple of the home counties’ more demanding layouts and perhaps, most dauntingly, the M25.
At 7.30am, Hull will hit the opening tee shot at the Worplesdon Charity Pro-am, in a field including Colin Montgomerie, Andy Sullivan, Ross Fisher and Paul Broadhurst, as well as another Tour winner in world No83 Paul Waring and the 2018 Women’s British Open winner, Georgia Hall.
The day has been arranged by agent Brendan Taylor, the son of snooker great Dennis, to raise funds for Covid-19 relief efforts. But as well as a team prize there is an individual leaderboard at the Surrey venue.
“Of course we are there to help out the good causes, but it would be cool to see off a field of that quality, for sure,” Hull said.
The world No25 should be finished by lunchtime, in time for a quick sandwich and then a car trip to Hertfordshire, for the second event in the Rose Ladies Series. At Moor Park, the classic Harry Colt course, Hull is due to tee off in the final group at 2.28pm, joining a quality line-up featuring Bronte Law, Meghan Maclaren and Scotland’s Carly Booth.
There can be no doubt, however, that Hull is the main draw, particularly after last week’s victory at Brokenhurst Manor in the first of the eight-event series.
“It’s great to see and it all seems to be really snowballing,” Hull said.
“You have to hand it to Justin and Kate [Rose], as well, of course, to Liz [Young, the LET pro who first dreamt up an emergency event] as without them there would be nowhere for the British girls to play.
“I loved it at Brokenhurst and enjoyed it going to a play-off, as it gave me that adrenalin and that’s why we play. When we went into lockdown I figured that’d be it for the season. You know how it is. ‘The men might get back,’ I thought, ‘but we won’t’. “Yet now there is this series and in a few weeks’ time I’ll head to the States for the first two events back on the LPGA Tour, before returning for the Women’s British Open. “With a few other American majors and then the US Women’s Open, which is my favourite event, in December it could be an amazing run. And these events in England are setting me up nicely.”