GOOD YOUNG CHARLEY BIDDING FOR BREAKTHRO WIN AS A PRO
NEWS RELEASE FROM LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
By BETHAN CUTLER, LET Media Manager
Four
runner-up finishes in as many starts in her first season on tour have
seen 17-year-old Charley Hull rocket to the top of the Ladies
European Tour’s ISPS Handa Order of Merit.
The rookie professional tied for second at the Lalla Meryem Cup, South African Women’s Open and Turkish Airlines Ladies Open and
was solo second at the Deloitte Ladies Open in Amsterdam on Sunday.
After so many close finishes, her sights are now set on a breakthrough victory at the UniCredit Ladies German Open presented
by Audi.
Hull, pictured,
felt that The International in Amsterdam suited her game because it
played long in the wind and she looks forward to testing her game at
Golfpark Gut Häusern, near Munich from Thursday.
“I’m
leading the order of merit so I’m looking forward to going out this
week and getting a couple of rounds under my belt,” she said, on wet and
overcast Pro-Am day on Wednesday.
“I
played one practice round and I usually play two. It’s a shame because
the weather was so bad we couldn’t go out this morning.”
If
Hull wins the tournament this week, she will earn a first prize of
52,500 euro, along with an Audi Q5, but she hasn’t had time for driving
lessons
since her birthday in March.
She could even win an Audi R8 Spyder, worth 160,000 euro, for a hole-in-one on the par-3 15th, which would be an impressive first set
of wheels. She hit a five-iron at the 171-yard hole in her practice round, which was the longest club she hit into any green.
Hull jumped 48 places to 150th in the world after finishing second last week and the talented teen is now up to seventh on
the European Solheim Cup team standings, from which the top four will qualify for August’s clash in Colorado.
On
Solheim Cup qualification, she said: “I’m thinking about it, but I’m
not really thinking about it. Competitions will build up to that and
you’ve
got to play well to be in it. I’m playing well at the moment and have
had four seconds in the last four tournaments. I’m sure I’ll go out
there and play one shot at a time and hopefully get good results without
thinking about it too much.”
Whilst
most of the players will have had two years to qualify when the teams
are announced at St. Andrews on August 4, Hull has played
in only four events to date and is now just 22.41 points behind fourth
ranked Caroline Masson of Germany.
Another
second place would lift her into fourth position and into the
qualifying spots, with five qualifying events to play, in Germany,
Slovakia, Spain, England and Scotland.
Hull is playing with Laura Davies and Cheyenne Woods in the Thursday’s first round, starting from the first tee at 12.30pm.
The defending champion Anne-Lise Caudal plays with the 2011 champion Diana Luna and 2009 winner Jade Schaeffer at 12.40pm.
German favourite Caroline Masson is part of a marquee group starting early at 8.10am from the 10th
tee, along with Carlota Ciganda and
Lee-Anne Pace, followed by the ‘glamour group’ featuring Sharmila
Nicollet, Maria Baliokeva and Danielle Montgomery 10 minutes later.
See attached the draw for rounds one and two.
Bethan Cutler
Media Manager
Ladies European Tour
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