Be it in America or the U.K., you don’t wait until the last few holes for the excitement to kick in. It starts at the beginning, when it’s Charley Hull’s turn to tee off and the fans are yelling “Go Charley! Go Charley!” She whacks her drive down the fairway and she’s up, up and away. Slow play? She hates it.
“There’s no doubt that Charley is a breath of fresh air,” said Pádraig Harrington, the winner of two Opens and a PGA Championship, of the 29-year-old Englishwoman. “It’s quite a step change in the women’s game. Over the years, I think the ladies were taught that golf was all about consistency, about hitting fairways and greens. Charley’s much more swashbuckling than that. She gives it a rip off the tee, finds it and gets it up and down from there. She’s playing the game more like the men are playing it.”