Charley Hull has moved to world No 3 within the newest Rolex Ladies’s World Golf Rankings – the highest-ever place by an Englishwoman within the rankings’ 20-year historical past.
Hull received the Women European Tour’s season-opening PIF Saudi Women Worldwide on Saturday, the place a final-round 65 gave her a one-shot victory over Akie Iwai and Casandra Alexander.
A fifth Women European Tour title follows her successful the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship on the LPGA Tour in September, together with her newest success additionally seeing her attain a career-high world rating.
Hull moved up from fifth to 3rd within the newest Rolex Ladies’s World Golf Rating standings, launched on Monday, climbing above KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship winner Minjee Lee and AIG Ladies’s Open champion Miyu Yamashita within the standings.
Solely Jeeno Thitikul and Nelly Korda now have increased world rating than Hull, who can have alternatives over the approaching months to push nearer in direction of turning into England’s first feminine world No 1.
“I worked really hard this off-season, so it’s nice to get a result pretty much straight away and it’s one of the bigger events on the LET,” Hull stated after successful in Riyadh on Saturday.
The 29-year-old is certainly one of two Englishwoman contained in the world’s prime 10, with Lottie Woad – who loved a breakthrough maiden season in 2025 after turning skilled – at the moment sitting world No 8.
Hull has completed no worse than tied-Twenty first since early June, ending runner-up on the AIG Ladies’s Open final summer season and including three additional worldwide top-fives through the second half of 2025.
How mashed potatoes helped Hull to Saudi victory
Hull was three photographs of the 54-hole lead in Riyadh and in a share of eleventh place however charged up the leaderboard on the ultimate day, carding an eagle, seven birdies and two bogeys throughout an eventful spherical.
A birdie-eagle-birdie run from the eleventh was adopted by two extra birdies over her ultimate 4 holes to set the clubhouse goal and win in Riyadh for a second time, having received the 2024 Aramco Workforce Collection occasion in the identical metropolis.
“After nine holes I ran into the toilet and also got some mashed potatoes, so I don’t know if that gave me a bit of power for the back nine,” Hull added.
“My house renovation is pretty much done, so I needed that win! I’m looking forward to getting settled into my house in a couple of weeks when it’s all done and celebrate my birthday.”
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