LPGA star reveals 1 reason men’s pro golf is ‘boring’: ‘I don’t watch’

LPGA star Charley Hull resumes her quest for her first major title this week at 2026 Chevron Championship. While Hull will be too busy playing to catch much of the action on TV, this week features the kind of golf she still enjoys watching.

However, the genre of golf pros playing most weeks on the PGA Tour is not renowned English professionals cup of tea

Hull revealed that she doesn’t “really watch golf” when she’s not competing and laid out a specific reason she finds the modern pro game “boring” at her press conference at the Chevron Championship.

Charley Hull on modern golf: ‘It’s quite boring to watch a birdie party’

Hull, 30, has three LPGA wins in her career and is currently ranked fourth in the world. She turned pro in 2013, and in that time she has seen professional golf change drastically.

Those changes hit the men’s game hardest, where increased distance has turned every regular PGA Tour event into a “bird fest,” as Hull described it Tuesday.

Directors, on the other hand, have undergone fewer changes. In both the men’s and women’s games, major courses typically feature treacherous layouts intended to provide stiff challenges for the best players in the game.

Hull expects this week’s Chevron Championship to follow that tradition, requiring players to hit long fairways on many greens. That’s exactly how Hull thinks it should be on a major, and why she doesn’t usually watch non-major golf on TV.

To put it simply, she prefers to watch professionals “when they’re fighting.”

“I much prefer this. I think this is how golf should be. It’s a lot more interesting,” Hull said Tuesday at Chevron. “I don’t really watch golf, but when I watch men’s golf, I watch the top players and I like it a lot more when they’re fighting on the golf course. I think it’s a lot more fun.”

She then elaborated on her issue with the golf played in most pro golf tournaments, which she says of the PGA Tour has turned into a driver-wedge game.

“It’s pretty boring to watch a birdie party. All you see is hit a long drive, hit a wedge on the green and hit a putt,” Hull said.

Memorial Park is a perfect example of Hull’s argument. While she expects to play hard this week for the first LPGA major of the yearplays very differently at the PGA Tour’s annual Texas Children’s Houston Open. At this year’s Houston Open, Gary Woodland dominated Memorial Park with a winning score of 21 under.

Hull went on to say that she preferred the pro golf played decades ago, when it was more of an “art.”

“It’s nice to see golf played as an art, like when they have to create shots,” she explained. “I much prefer it. That’s why I preferred golf 20, 30 years ago.”

Hull later revealed that “pretty much the only tournament I watch is the Masters or the men’s British Open. I find them very exciting to watch.”

Although Hull has never won a major, she has come extremely close on several occasions. She finished T2 at the 2016 Chevron Championship, to go along with a T7 in 2014 and T6 in 2018. She also earned a T2 at the 2023 US Women’s Open and has two runner-up finishes at the AIG Women’s Open in 2023 and 2025.