Charley Hull hopes a smoking ban at Le Golf Nationwide won’t see her Olympic gold medal hopes go up in smoke.
The Staff GB golfer smokes whereas out on the course and was dubbed the “feminine John Daly” by the American media on the US Open two months in the past.
Hull additionally provoked a social media stir after signing autographs for a gaggle of younger youngsters with a lit cigarette dangling from her lips at Lancaster Nation Membership in Pennsylvania.
However there can be no repeat present on the Olympics in Paris when the ladies’s competitors will get beneath approach on Wednesday, with the 28-year-old from Kettering saying: “I do smoke on the course. It’s a behavior, one thing I do.
“However I received’t do that week. I don’t suppose you’re allowed.”
Requested if the smoking ban would have an effect on her, Hull replied: “Yeah, I feel it can. As a result of it relaxes me a little bit bit. However it’s what it’s.”
On the intensive social media response to her smoking on the US Open, she added: “I don’t really go on Instagram.
“I haven’t gone on Instagram in about 4 or 5 months. I don’t go on social media or something. I simply let my agent do it.
“I simply consider my golf and simply hang around with Georgia (Corridor) off the golf course.”
John Daly, who received the Open in 1995 at St Andrews, is thought to walk across the golf course with a cigarette in hand.
Hull performed on the Rio Olympics at 2016 and completed tied seventh, simply two pictures out of the medal positions.
Corridor, 28, is making her debut on the Video games and says she has already felt the match being completely different to common Women European Tour and LPGA Tour occasions.
“There’s a special kind of mindset I feel this week,” stated the 2018 Ladies’s British Open champion from Bournemouth.
“Clearly actually an honour to be representing Nice Britain and taking part in in your nation.
“You simply know, any time you get to do this, it’s most likely among the finest moments you could have as an expert athlete.
“It’s been on my thoughts in the previous couple of years to get into this staff and win a medal.”
