WOMEN'S OLYMPIC GOLF COMPETITION

August 7, 2024

Charley Hull

Le Golf National

Quick Quotes

CHARLEY HULL: First week back really after my injury, so get that round out of the way and bit of a warmup for the British Open now I take it.

Q. Your shoulder?

CHARLEY HULL: It's been a lot better. It's been a lot better to be fair. Yeah, looking forward to tomorrow.

Q. What did you do to it exactly?

CHARLEY HULL: I fell over when I was on the way back from America, the team, and I then had to, pull out of the Aramco and had a week and a half of golf because I thought I tored [sic] something in there. So I had an MRI and then -- my hip, was out, shouldn't have played Evian. So I took like a week and a half off.

Q. Fell over?

CHARLEY HULL: Fell overcoming out of the shower before I was getting my flight, I thought I tore my thing -- nothing come up. I just have a bit of arthritis now in my shoulder.

Q. Is it affecting your play?

CHARLEY HULL: No. It's just like I feel a bit rusty because obviously it's been five weeks since I last played properly a four-day event.

Q. How did you find the course?

CHARLEY HULL: I think it's a very scorable golf course. I just didn't hit it in the right positions, and when I hit good shots today I just missed clubs slightly, and that gets me into bad positions. Hopefully I've got the rust off me and I'm looking forward to hopefully shooting freaking 9-under tomorrow.

Q. Is the atmosphere as good as you thought?

CHARLEY HULL: Really good. It is really good. It's fun.

Q. I saw you had a lengthy discussion with your team; you're not withdrawing?

CHARLEY HULL: No, I'm playing.

Q. The smoking -- it's banned, are you sure about that? Was that in the thinking?

CHARLEY HULL: That's definitely not -- just because I've been injured. I don't think a lot of people realise that I did pull out of the Aramco team series and I did take like ten days off golf and had an MRI and everything. I think that is 100 % why, not the smoking.

Q. A season playing solid golf, how frustrating is it?

CHARLEY HULL: I was just saying to my agent, I'm so frustrated. I wish I didn't have a shower before my flight now.

But I feel like -- I just I feel like one round under my belt and then -- because I did actually have it going at Evian, after my first round, I was still a bit injured there, I was sore, but feel like get one round under my belt, and tomorrow, go low.

Now I feel like it's not my first round back if that makes any sense. And I do struggle on golf courses with trees on them and there's water.

So I had to pick an exact point but now I feel like I do know it a bit more better and a bit more confident, I will try to go low tomorrow.

Q. Did you play much at home the last few weeks?

CHARLEY HULL: I played ten rounds of golf in six days. And I practise every day from six in the morning till six in the evening, so I played a lot of golf.

Q. When you feel rusty or warming backup --

CHARLEY HULL: It's more just getting into a tournament round of golf, you know what I mean, just getting 245 mentality. Because this year, I felt like I was having quite a good season, very consistent, top 20s, a few Top 10s and I was very focused and got in a good original. When I obviously did have an injury it knocks your confidence, not how I'm swinging it but more mentally but I feel like a couple rounds under my belt, I'll be back.