For The Love Of The Game

Kate Rose and winner Charley Hull after the Rose Ladies Series event at Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club. Photo: Andrew Redington, Getty Images

Back in 2016, Charley Hull picked up $500,000 for winning the end-of-season CME Group Tour Championship in the States when she had a closing 66 to finish two clear of So Yeon Ryu. On 18 June this year, she received a cheque for £5,000 for winning the first event in the new Rose Ladies Series.

To look at the pictures of Hull holding her trophy after her 19th-hole win against Liz Young at Brokenhurst Manor was to see a golfer whose love of the game comes a million miles above all else. “She was thrilled to win the CME,” said her father, Dave, “but her smile was just as broad, if not broader, when she won that £5,000. She’d been itching to go out with a card and pencil in hand for months.”

Other professional golfers in Hull’s league tend to concern themselves with rather more in the way of “additional...