Charley Hull reveals why she has little interest watching golf on TV these days

Charley Hull might be 29 years old but she's something of an old soul when it comes to our beautiful game. 

Or at least it was once beautiful in the eyes of England's Hull. 

Speaking ahead of this week's AIG Women's Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales and the popular LPGA star provided an honest and frank assessment of the state of the professional game right now.

Hull may have been born in 1996, but she considers the game of golf was much more of an art before she was alive. 

She believes the game, at least at professional level, has become so much easier when it comes to controlling ball flight and hitting longer tee shots. 

The subject came to the fore when a reporter asked Hull whether she could imagine herself playing golf in the 1980s with little feathery balls. 

"I'd love that," asserted Hull. 

"I think it would be so much fun. 

"I think the to be fair, I think golf back 20, 30 years ago, say 19 -- up to like 2000s, it was more of an art. 

"The players, even then men, would have to hit draws and fades and stuff it in, where I think now it's become more of a power game and where it's become -- the technology has advanced so much everyone can just hit it straight and far, and it's kind of taking the art away from it.

"Whenever I watch golf, I watch golf and Shell's Wonderful World of Golf all that lot, like who won the British Open in the 1970s and that. I find it way more interesting back then. Like I wouldn't really watch golf now really."

It's fair to say Hull's comments have divided opinion on golf social media, but there are many who agree with her claims. 

Check out the below thread to see what golf fans are saying... 

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As for her chances of landing a first major title at the AIG Women's Open this week, Hull did not sound particularly confident. 

Hull said: "I’m not hitting it the best coming into this week which is very frustrating because it's an event I've been looking forward to playing all year. I've just got to go out there with what I've got."

One player who is full of confidence is England's Lottie Woad, who incredibly won her first LPGA tournament on her pro debut in Scotland last week.

Woad starts this week as a 7/1 tournament favourite, narrowly ahead of World No.1 Nelly Korda. 

It was confirmed earlier today that the 2025 AIG Women's Open will have a record prize purse of $9.75m.