GAINESVILLE, Va. – Suzann Pettersen is grateful to have a Charley Hull on her European Solheim Cup staff. A Charley Hull.
“Fortunately, we solely have considered one of her on our staff as a result of think about having 12 of her. That will be form of a handful,” Pettersen mentioned earlier this week.
Happily for Pettersen, there isn’t any one else like Charley Hull.
“Nicely, I’m simply myself,” Hull mentioned Thursday at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership. “If I like issues, I prefer it for myself. If different folks don’t prefer it, properly, it’s not their life. I reside me. I reside my life the way in which I need to reside it, not how anybody else needs me to reside it. I feel simply actually simply reside like a traditional individual.”
That individual loves glamour and dressing up, loves understanding, loves golf, doesn’t like ingesting, doesn’t like smoking (however does so anyway), and doesn’t thoughts talking her thoughts.
Hull has change into a social media movie star over the past two years, due to the entire above. She has 625,000 followers on Instagram however, very similar to with cigarettes, she’s not a fan of the platform.
“Honestly, I don’t have entry to my Instagram,” Hull mentioned. “I ended being on Instagram six months in the past now. My agent posts every little thing for me. I don’t log onto it. I don’t do nothing on it. I actually ship her the images I need to be posted and she or he’ll put up them for me.
“I really feel like social media could be too time consuming. You will get too obsessive about it relatively than simply residing in the true world. I feel it’s unbelievable what number of followers I’ve gained.”
she described as self-diagnosed ADHD. That got here after she had impressed near-misses at each the U.S. Girls’s Open, the place her “shy youngsters don’t get sweets” touch upon the 72nd gap went viral, and the AIG Girls’s Open.
Individuals had been then fascinated by her smoking on the course and her revelation that she solely began smoking cigarettes to stop vaping.
That’s Charley Hull logic and why she each entertains exhausts these round her.
“She’s totally different than everybody else, and that’s why folks love her, and that’s why like – she’s simply actually enjoyable to be round and a extremely real, type individual. Clearly an ideal golfer, so clearly that helps,” mentioned European teammate and greatest pal Georgia Corridor.
“I feel the very fact she doesn’t care what anybody thinks and goes about her life the way in which she needs, I feel lots of people can be taught from that.”
Thursday, Hull was noticed bumming a lighter from a fan — not the primary time that has occurred. She’s beforehand been slipped numbers from followers hoping for a date and, this week, it wouldn’t be a shock to listen to loads of “Charley!” chants among the many pro-U.S. crowd.
“I really like the American crowds. It’s a lot enjoyable. I at all times love taking part in a Solheim Cup in America as a result of the ambiance is unbelievable,” Hull mentioned.
“I don’t know, we play over right here each week on the LPGA Tour and I simply actually take pleasure in it. The crowds are an ideal snort. Though they’re supporting America they’re nonetheless respectful, and we simply have loads of enjoyable on the market.”
