Charley Hull insists her largest purpose for 2025 is away from the golf course forward of her bid to make a successful begin to her Girls European Tour season on the PIF Saudi Girls Worldwide.
Hull returns to LET motion for the primary time since her victory at November’s Aramco Workforce Sequence win in Riyadh, the place she claimed a three-shot win and first worldwide title in over two years.
The world No 11 is among the many pre-tournament favourites at Riyadh Golf Course, having posted top-20 finishes in every of her final eight worldwide begins, though is dedicated to bettering her general health and well-being forward of her outcomes.
“My foremost purpose truly is not on the golf course,” Hull instructed the media forward of the occasion, stay on Sky Sports activities from Thursday. “I wish to try to get my 5k run time down to twenty minutes by the tip of the 12 months. It is round 26 minutes in the meanwhile.
“I do not prepare in golf. I’ve zero curiosity in coaching in golf. I do not wish to simply be a golfer. I wish to be an athlete. I prepare as a result of it is good for my psychological well being and it is good for me. I simply take pleasure in it as a interest.”
Hull is ready to group up with Germany’s Chiara Noja, who she confronted in an exhilarating play-off battle on the 2022 Aramco Workforce Sequence offered by PIF – Jeddah, with the distinctive format seeing a 36-hole group competitors performed alongside a 54-hole particular person stroke play occasion.
Talking about Noja, Hull added: “Yeah, she’s tremendous. She’s a very good participant. I’ve bought Maria Fassi on my group as effectively. I believe it is simply going to be tremendous enjoyable and it is good to have individuals to speak to on the market. I simply wish to have enjoyable on the golf course and really feel like a part of a group.”
Charley Hull is making her first look of the 12 months on the Girls European Tour, having completed tied-Nineteenth on the LPGA Tour on the Founders Cup final week
The format sees 28 groups of 4 professionals compete over the primary two days, with the highest two scores on every gap counting in the direction of the group rating, whereas the three-day contest has a report $5m prize purse – equal to the lads’s occasion.
“It is actually good and strikes the sport ahead,” Hull stated concerning the elevated prize purse. “It is fairly cool to have the identical prize cash as males. So I believe it is actually, actually good.”
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World No 3 Ruoning Yin makes her Saudi Arabia golf debut and is the highest-ranked participant within the discipline, whereas Danielle Kang is amongst her group having captained a aspect to victory within the 2024 Aramco Workforce Sequence.
“I just like the group facet of golf,” Kang stated. “The lads have the entire group factor occurring with LIV Golf, and so they have one thing to maneuver for that is a group extra than simply you. I do not know, I believe it simply brings out one of the best in me every time I get to play for another person.”
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