GAINESVILLE, Va. – Suzann Pettersen is grateful to have a Charley Hull on her European Solheim Cup workforce. A Charley Hull.
“Fortunately, we solely have one in every of her on our workforce as a result of think about having 12 of her. That will be sort of a handful,” Pettersen mentioned earlier this week.
Fortuitously for Pettersen, there isn’t any one else like Charley Hull.
“Properly, 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 dwell me. I dwell my life the way in which I wish to dwell it, not how anybody else needs me to dwell it. I believe simply actually simply dwell like a standard individual.”
That individual loves glamour and dressing up, loves figuring out, loves golf, doesn’t like consuming, doesn’t like smoking (however does so anyway), and doesn’t thoughts talking her thoughts.
Hull has turn into a social media superstar over the past two years, due to the entire above. She has 625,000 followers on Instagram however, very like with cigarettes, she’s not a fan of the platform.
“In truth, 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 thing for me. I don’t log onto it. I don’t do nothing on it. I actually ship her the pictures I wish to be posted and she or he’ll submit them for me.
“I really feel like social media may be too time consuming. You may get too obsessive about it relatively than simply dwelling in the actual world. I believe it’s unbelievable what number of followers I’ve gained.”
It will mark Hull’s seventh Solheim Cup look, her first coming as a 17-year-old in 2013, when she beat Paula Creamer in singles after which requested for Creamer’s autograph as a result of a pal needed it.
Hull was alleged to attend a pal’s party the week of the Colorado matches, and was initially “gutted” she needed to miss it.
“My dad was like, you’ve obtained to go to the Solheim Cup. I used to be like, however I’m going to overlook my pal’s party,” Hull mentioned. “Performed in it; didn’t notice how huge it was, and I used to be like, thank goodness I come right here.”
Now 28 and ranked 12th on the planet, Hull has a devoted following, regardless of having only one LPGA victory since ’16. Her public profile grew when she opened up late final yr about what she described as self-diagnosed ADHD. That got here after she had impressed near-misses at each the U.S. Ladies’s Open, the place her “shy youngsters don’t get sweets” touch upon the 72nd gap went viral, and the AIG Ladies’s Open.
Folks have 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 completely 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, form individual. Clearly an excellent golfer, so clearly that helps,” mentioned European teammate and greatest pal Georgia Corridor.
“I believe the actual fact she doesn’t care what anybody thinks and goes about her life the way in which she needs, I believe 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 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 excellent snort. Though they’re supporting America they’re nonetheless respectful, and we simply have loads of enjoyable on the market.”
