Sky Sports Golf pundit slams Charley Hull after latest near-miss on LPGA Tour

Sky Sports pundit: "If you put Charley Hull against Nelly Korda, then I'm picking Nelly every single day of the week."

26 Mar 2024

Sky Sports Golf pundit slams Charley Hull after latest near-miss on LPGA Tour

Sky Sports Golf pundit and three-time LPGA Tour winner Trish Johnson has slammed her English compatriot Charley Hull following her latest near-miss.

Hull, 28, has two LPGA Tour titles to her name and three on the Ladies European Tour, but in the eyes of Johnson she should have plenty more trophies in the cabinet.

Johnson, 58, considers Hull's aggressive course management in going hunting for every flag is holding her back from success.

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Hull came agonisingly close to clinching her maiden major title last season with a T2 at the US Women's Open at Pebble Beach and a solo second at the Women's British Open at Walton Heath.

She ended up finishing the 2023 season with five runner-up finishes overall.

The six-time European Solheim Cup star has continued to keep her foot down in 2024 but has still yet to win on the LPGA Tour since October 2022.

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Hull had a golden chance to pick up her LPGA Tour hat-trick at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship on Sunday but she dropped three shots over her closing two holes to finish T10 and four strokes behind newly-promoted World No.1 Nelly Korda.

It marked a fourth top-10 finish for Hull in her last five worldwide starts this season.

Hull also bumped herself up to seventh in the Rolex Rankings.

She has never ended a season ranked seventh or better in the world.

But when pressed on the Sky Sports Golf podcast if Hull is really as successful as she should be, eight-time European Solheim Cup player Johnson came down hard on her.

Johnson said:

"Not even close. I'm probably her harshest critic, because I know how good she is. She doesn't win anywhere near enough for her talent, and she doesn't get involved enough, in all honestly.

"The thing with Charley is that you're never going to change her. I read something the other day that said how much she loves the game and it's her love of the game [that costs her]. She's never going to change and she's just going to go for every pin.

"In theory that's great, but it won't win you golf tournaments, it just won't because she's not that much better than anybody else. If you put Charley against Nelly Korda, then I'm picking Nelly every single day of the week."

Hull will bid to land her LPGA Tour hat-trick at this week's inaugural Ford Championship presented by KCC, which will once again be live this weekend on Sky Sports Golf.

The Ford Championship is the penultimate LPGA Tour event before the women's major season gets up and running at the Chevron Championship, where Hull finished a career-best T2 in 2016.

Johnson believes if Hull is ever going to get back in the winners circle, then she needs to change her aggressive playing style.

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Johnson said:

"Golf-wise that's the way she plays the game and it's a little bit like watching John Daly I suppose.

"There's something that John Daly had that made him a major winner and a winner, but Charley is kind of lacking that.

"Her talent is not in question, but maybe her application is.

"Maybe it's just the case of her never changing and that will cost her golf tournaments, there's no two ways about it.

"You cannot go for every pin because that's the way you play and it being fun, as other players are better than that and you have to have course management."

GolfMagic recently had the pleasure of spending time with Charley Hull at the Aramco Team Series Tampa, and our very own Alex Lodge got to play a hole with her.

WATCH OUR VIDEO WITH CHARLEY HERE

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