FORD CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY WILD HORSE PASS

March 27, 2025

Charley Hull

Whirlwind Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, Charley, leader in the clubhouse after today. Beautiful scorecard I'm looking at right now. Just what stood out in your game today?

CHARLEY HULL: Well, I kind of tweaked my driver at the beginning of the week. I had Adrian from TaylorMade here and we was working on that, the new driver, and I really, really, really hit it well today. I felt like that put me in a lot of good positions.

I putted pretty well. I chipped pretty well. I hit it pretty well with my iron shots. I don't think I missed a green and didn't really miss any fairways. I was hitting it good and just felt confident.

Yeah, just felt good out there.

Q. No bogeys; a lot birdies. Several in a row, too. Any of them stand out to you?

CHARLEY HULL: No. I feel like I left actually a good four shots out there.

Like the last I lipped on the left edge.

The hole before I left it like an inch short.

Went in the jaws on a few holes before and it just stayed out.

Then I missed birdie putt on the front nine, and that was like from like six feet. So I'm looking back thinking, oh, I could have done more.

When I was coming down I think it was the 4th hole today, so like the 12th or 13th hole, I was like, oh, I could try and shoot 59. Then I missed the putt on that hole.

But no, I was just trying to go as low as I could. To be fair, like my boyfriend said to me, what will make me happy is seeing you on the top of the leaderboard and just smash it. That's what I had in my head and I just wanted to do like do that.

Q. You talked a lot about running and what you do before your rounds.

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah.

Q. Did you do anything today?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah. I was up at 2:30 because I wanted to speak to my family and that back at home, and then I ran just a little 7k and then I had some rowing thresholds to do, and then I trained my lower body, so like my legs.

I was in the gym from 4:00 until 6:00.

Q. For you, you're one of the most aggressive players out here.

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah.

Q. When it is this kind of a gettable golf course, how much fun is for you to just be aggressive?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I looked at the first two days didn't really feel like it suited my eye. I spoke to my dad this morning and he was like, when you first played the CME Tour Championship back in 2015 you didn't feel like that suited your eye, but then the next year went out and won it and suited my eye.

I was like, oh, yeah. That's a good point. So I just trusted my driver today and I think that was a massive thing. I had confidence in it.

Q. Not going to pretend to that England is similar it Arizona at all, but the firm and fast conditions make you feel like you're at home at all?

CHARLEY HULL: Not really. It's wet and soggy at home at the minute. I suppose if you're on a links golf course until summer it's a little bit of a similarity.

No, just literally I've been grinding so hard at home over the last three weeks, like practicing, putting my a lot of work in with my coach Matt, and my putting coach. Literally just we been working hard, and especially my fitness as well, my training kit.

Q. Was the 7k on a treadmill or was that --

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I did it on the treadmill because it was at like 4:00 in the morning and I didn't fancy running on the roads then.

Q. Got you. After the practice rounds and today, did the course seem different or was it pretty much what you thought in terms of --

CHARLEY HULL: It was pretty similar. I only played nine holes Tuesday and nine holes yesterday and I couldn't actually remember the golf course today, so I was like to my caddie, like what hole is this? Where do we go? It was like I was playing a new golf course all over again.

But I like playing golf courses like that. Like I do practice coming into a week and then all you got to do is hit a fairway and hit a green and hole a few putts and off you go.

Q. You feel like you got to keep going 9-under every day?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, try and get the lowest score as possible.

Q. Do you like when it's a birdiefest like this?

CHARLEY HULL: No, I don't, no. I like the majors when they're long, hard, and tight. That's usually my favorite kind of golf. I wish we played more -- I wish they made it more like that on the LPGA. That's why I always like the harder golf courses, which are usually the majors anyway.