AIG WOMEN'S OPEN

July 31, 2026

Charley Hull

Mixed Zone

CHARLEY HULL: Had a couple of good bunker shots today, but that one was -- had just had to splash it out, getting it rolling on the green. Yeah, it was nice to hole it. But the wind was in a quite different direction today, so made it a bit trickier.

Also I hit a few scrappy shots, but on 16 I hit a nice tee shot down there to that front pin and I was in a divot. When the ground so firm and when the ball is sat down in a divot it's kind of hard to get into it because your club just bounces through it, and that's why I just knocked it over the green.

And then 18 I was in a divot as well, so I had a bit more after fuller shot so I could get really steep on it. I felt like because it was -- the wind direction was just a slight different angle today it made it a little bit trickier.

Q. When you're in a divot, does it mess with you mentally at all?

CHARLEY HULL: Usually when it's -- so if you're in America and the ground is a bit softer you can get into it a bit more. On links it's very -- the ground is very tight and very, very firm, especially how rock solid some of the lies are out there, it's very hard then when you're it a divot to get into the ground, so kind of cooks you a little bit because you're coming in thinking that you should be making birdie here and I was just scrapping for my par.

Q. (Regarding the camera.)

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, twice, two times. I don't know what he was doing, putting his hand in his pocket and Adsy kept hearing him as well. Especially when I was really trying to concentrate. Oh, well, everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Bless him.

Q. How do you feel about your position?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, feel pretty good. I think what's leading?

Q. 6.

CHARLEY HULL: 6-under. Yeah, not too far going into the weekend. Better than I was last year.

Q. (Regarding pouring with rain last night.)

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah. No, I heard it. I couldn't really sleep much last night. I had about three hours sleep. Pouring down.

Q. Did that not make any difference?

CHARLEY HULL: No. I feel like it's that dry out there that we would need a lot, a lot of rain. I felt like the greens were a little bit slow on the putting green this morning practising, but apart from that they were still rolling pretty quick.

Q. Is three hours sleep normal?

CHARLEY HULL: No. I slept 12 hours the night before, but I felt like late finish and it takes me a while to wind down. Had a lot of adrenaline going for me. You know when you know you got to be up early you're like, I want to go to sleep, and then you can't sleep because you're thinking about going to sleep.

Q. (Regarding functioning after three hours sleep.)

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, to be fair, I'm quite weird. I can sleep for 16 hours straight. I've slept for 20 hours before. I can manage on two hours sleep but I'll come crashing down. I think I had a 12-hour nap the day before so I felt good out there.

Q. The prank fallout, did any of that affect you today?

CHARLEY HULL: I did not, no, not think about it. What people don't understand is mine and Adsy's relationship. I think being British as well. Like you have banter and taking the Micky, if you get what I mean, out of each other.

He's Australian. I don't think people understand mine and Adsy's relationship. Like we're very, very close. He's like a big brother to me. He is one of my best friends. He come to Wimbledon with me the other week.

He's always taking the Micky out of me. He thought the joke was brilliant himself. Was showing everybody about it. He was laughing hard about it.

Then when you hear comments, so many people saying how bad it is, just lighten up. You obviously don't get my humor, and I don't care if you don't get my humor. My friends get my humor and that's why they're my friends.

And I wouldn't do it to a random person that I knew wouldn't take it very well. We all knew Adsy, he is the king of pranks. The amount of pranks of he and his caddie mates are just way worse than that, and he just finds it hilarious.

So he's pretty chill. People need to chill out about that. Adsy is like loving the attention from it. He's like, how cool is this? I think it was on the was on the LADbible or the SPORTbible. He was like, Oh, my God. This is brilliant. I can't believe I fell for that joke. It's so funny. He texted me last night saying this has been one of the funniest weeks ever because of that prank.

People need to stop writing bad comments and stuff because they need to lighten up, but if you got something bad to say about it, I don't care. (Smiling.)

Q. (No microphone.)

CHARLEY HULL: No, not really. They actually make me want to do better because I think we live in a world where you can't do anything wrong these days. Then it stops people from living the life they want to. I think I don't care. I just live me. My family and friends around me, we just live it how we want to. Our household we got a lot of banter and are always taking the Micky out of each other. It's just the way I've been brought up, and I think people just need to be a bit more tough skinned.

Q. (Regarding switching off comments.)

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, my boyfriend said to me last night, free publicity is good publicity. Today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish and chip paper. I was like, yeah, true. Then we just laughed it off and then we haven't really spoke about it since.

Q. How excited are you for another major chase?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, really looking forward to it. It's going to be loads of fun. I feel like now my nerves have settled down. My back was actually playing up for me a little bit today, a little bit sore, that's why I think I wasn't getting through the ball how I wanted to.

A bit of recovery this afternoon, hit a hit a few balls and chill, because my mum and dad's come up.

Q. As a high profile female athlete, give me an idea of the comments, what kind of stuff?

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah. You know what? I think you put yourself in the limelight so you would be silly to think there will not be comments like that. I think you see some people saying I really struggle from these comments. They're almost looking for sympathy. I'm just like, imagine -- you're in such a good position in life. There are people way worse off in life and you're moaning about what people are saying about you.

I just think like, I don't know, grow a pair of balls and just forget about it, do you know what I mean? Because if that's the worst thing in life, people saying bad stuff about you, you really have not got life that bad.

Q. (Regarding her grandmother.)

CHARLEY HULL: Yeah. Oh, yeah, my grandmother, Babby. I'll call her Babby because babchuk in Polish is grandmother, and her name was Irena, but call her Babby because I couldn't say it when I was younger. Yeah, Babby was super tough skinned. She was very by the book. She was ruthless. Especially if you was to read her book, what she went through, like we've got it so easy these days.

So that kind of puts it into perspective. It's quite amazing. When I went to the royal box in Wimbledon, out of everybody there that day there was one person that stood out to me. He was in the Army. He was in Afghanistan, and had his leg -- had his leg cut off I think. I was speaking to him and he plays golf. I thought, wow, out of everybody in this royal box today, I know we have our own achievements, he's the one person I think that actually truly deserved to be in the royal box.

I thought that was really cool because you are actually the real hero, like what he went through and everything. He actually plays in the like ISPS Handa Golf Days and stuff, and I got to chatting to him and he was really, really nice.