Charley Hull is concentrating on a robust finish to the LPGA Tour season after overcoming pre-tournament passport points and sickness to rally to a formidable end at The Annika.
A delay in getting a visa renewed left her unable to journey from England to Florida till Tuesday, with Hull pulling out of the Wednesday pro-am – on account of feeling sick – and leaving her taking part in the occasion with no observe spherical.
Hull described how she ‘simply winged across the golf course’ throughout an opening-round 68 at Pelican Golf Membership, earlier than following back-to-back 67s by charging up the leaderboard with a bogey-free 63 on the ultimate day.
The Englishwoman completed tied-fourth and 5 strokes behind Solheim Cup team-mate Linn Grant, with Hull happy together with her efficiency heading into the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.
“I was in the car and I was like, ‘we should go for everything today and just make as many birdies as we can, try and stalk down Linn Grant,'” Hull mentioned after her closing spherical. “I simply performed fairly stable all day.
“I hit it pretty well – even left some putts out there. I feel good going into next week [CME Group Tour Championship], especially without having a practice round this week.”
Solely the highest 60 obtainable gamers within the LPGA Tour’s the Race to the CME Globe standings get to characteristic, with Hull ending the highest-ranked European within the season-long factors after one other spectacular marketing campaign.
Hull received the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship in September – her third LPGA Tour title – and completed runner-up on the AIG Girls’s Open, with the 29-year-old now relishing the prospect to return to the venue the place she claimed her breakthrough LPGA Tour victory in 2016.
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Charley Hull displays on her AIG Girls’s Open efficiency, the place she completed tied-second and narrowly missed out on a maiden main
“It [confidence] feels really good,” Hull added. “I’ve won around that course [Tiburon Golf Club] before. That was my first win on the LPGA Tour, so I’ve got good memories of it.
“I’ve had a second there (2019) as nicely, so I just like the golf course. So yeah, simply going to be finish to the season.”
The winner will probably be named the Race to the CME Globe Champion and obtain $4 million, the biggest single prize within the historical past of ladies’s golf, with the runner-up incomes $1 million.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the 2024 CME Group Tour Championship, the place Jeeno Thitikul ended her season on a excessive
Historic time for English golf on LPGA Tour
Main winners Miyu Yamashita, Grace Kim, Mao Saigo and Maja Stark – together with Grant – are all in motion, as is Nelly Korda as she appears to keep away from a winless season on the LPGA Tour.
Hull is joined within the area by compatriot Lottie Woad, who makes her debut after solely turning skilled in the summertime, with two Englishwomen presently contained in the world’s prime 10 for the primary time in historical past.
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Talking on the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast earlier this summer time, Karen Stupples mentioned she believes Lottie Woad ‘has potential to be a World beater’
Grant, Celine Boutier, Carlota Ciganda, Maja Stark, Esther Henseleit, Madelene Sagstrom and Leona Maguire are among the many different European names in motion, whereas world No 1 and defending champion Jeeno Thitikul topped the season-long standings after two wins and 13 prime 10s this season.
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