Former AIG Girls’s Open champion Karen Stupples has “no doubt” Charley Hull will finish her await an elusive main title and would relish a “dream” rivalry between the Englishwoman and Nelly Korda.
Hull narrowly missed out on changing into the primary Englishwoman to win a serious since 2018 throughout the US Girls’s Open, the place she completed tied-second alongside Gaby Lopez as Korda claimed a one-shot victory at Riviera Nation Membership.
Korda’s back-to-back main titles prolonged her benefit as world No 1 and continued her dominant begin to the 2026 season, whereas Hull was left settling for a fifth runner-up end of her main profession.
Hull admitted it was “frustrating” to fall quick once more, simply as she did throughout the 2023 version, though Stupples – one in every of simply 4 Englishwomen to win a serious – has full religion within the 30-year-old to ultimately declare a serious victory.
“There is not a single doubt in my mind that she is going to win a major,” former main champion Karen Stupples advised the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast. “It might be the case that she finally ends up profitable at Royal Lytham this 12 months due to this expertise that she’s had right here.
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“I bear in mind final time when the US Girls’s Open was in California, it was at Pebble Seaside. She got here so shut there at Pebble Seaside, then she went on to Walton Heath and she or he performed rather well at Walton Heath.
“She’s going to keep putting herself in these positions and ultimately something has to stick. If you keep putting yourself in this spot, eventually you’re going to win – that’s where I think she is.
“I imply, her sport is so nicely suited to the majors. I feel now along with her quick sport, along with her placing, with the work she’s been doing, I feel it is simply large. I feel it is these little bits that she’s doing with the quick sport which might be actually going to push her to that subsequent stage.”
How Hull’s model can result in main success
Hull was seven strokes off the midway lead and outdoors the highest 40 after rounds of 73 and 72 over the primary two days at Riviera Nation Membership, solely to cost again into competition with a third-round 65 – the bottom of her main profession – on Saturday.
She eagled the par-five first gap throughout her closing spherical and added 5 birdies, briefly shifting to the solo lead after choosing up a shot on the eleventh, though stuttered as soon as prime of the leaderboard and ended one again after a four-under 67.
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Charley Hull holed a 12-foot birdie on the par-five first to make a dream begin to the ultimate spherical
“She [Hull] does say that she likes to chase but she thoroughly enjoys that heat of the battle, being in contention and competing to win,” Stupples added. “She is doing everything she can to win.
“Over right here in America, they’ve a saying: ‘the forestall protection’, which is when American soccer groups have a very good lead after which they attempt to forestall the opposite staff from scoring, versus simply enjoying their sport and attempting to attain extra.
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Charley Hull holed a 12-foot birdie on the par-five first to make a dream begin to the ultimate spherical
“Prevent defense never works and it always drives me nuts when my teams try and play that way. I think it’s the same with Charlie on the golf course. She can’t play defensively – that’s not who she is and how she plays golf.
“In the end whenever you’re enjoying, you must be true to you and to your golf DNA and who you’re on the golf course, as a result of it would not work should you’re the rest. I perceive why she did [stay aggressive] and I feel that it’ll ultimately result in wins.”
Charley Hull additionally completed second on the 2016 Chevron Championship, 2023 US Girls’s Open, 2023 AIG Girls’s Open and 2025 AIG Girls’s Open
Can Hull problem Korda and kind new {golfing} rivalry?
Korda’s victory adopted April’s Chevron Championship success and sees her turn out to be the primary participant since Inbee Park in 2013 to win the primary two majors of the calendar 12 months, whereas Hull’s runner-up end lifts her to fourth within the newest world rankings.
Each can be among the many favourites for the ultimate three majors of the 12 months forward of their appearances on opposing sides on the Solheim Cup this September, additionally reside on Sky Sports activities, with Stupples relishing the thought of the 2 fan favourites going head-to-head within the months and years forward.
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Watch the second Nelly Korda gained a fourth main championship, clinching victory in dramatic vogue after practically lacking the putt!
“That would be a dream,” Stupples stated. “If you’re the LPGA commissioner, you’re thinking ‘yes, let’s bring on that rivalry!’ I think both add so much to the women’s game in different ways.
“Charley is all character and Nelly appears so stoic on the course. I feel that this may very well be a extremely good battle shifting ahead and I am pondering of Solheim Cup as nicely arising later this 12 months.
“I think this is something that can be teased out through the course of the rest of the year and for the rest of their playing careers. What we need is Charley to get over the finish line a couple more times to make it a proper, true rivalry. Right now, Nelly’s just got the edge on things.”
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