After the open end of Charley Hull women, 6 words said everything

Charley Hull didn’t expect much of yourself to come this week to 2025 AIG Open Women at Royal PartthCawl. She had been crossing a virus that overthrew her from the championship Amundi Evian, she broke her back by taking a box from her car, she had hit her poorly and she really didn’t vibe with golf links.

Through two rounds in Wales, Hull’s prediction was conscious. She went on Saturday 11 shots behind Miyu Yamashita and didn’t seem to be a weekend factor. But hull found something in the third round, pouring in seven birds in a round with six under to catch the manager’s board and get within three from Yamashita.

On Sunday, Hull drew her along the shores of Beach Beach with a chance to follow Yamashita and win her first big championship.

Hull came out and made three birds in nine money. She then bird 12 and rolled into a long bird in the treacherous 14th to cut Yamashita’s supremacy into one with four holes to play. Bored of the pro-Hull crowd in Wales, the 29-year-old star reached the teeth of the course with a golden opportunity in front of her. If she could end up strong, she could press for 24-year-old Yamashita, who was two groups behind and had not yet experienced Cauldron’s big championship.

Hull made a principle in 15, but then things took a turn.

She tried to rest from Tee to 16, but her car found a road bunker, leading to a noise. Another Bogey followed at 17 when Hull’s approach passed in green and she lost the first party. This hull fell on three back, heading to par -5 18. Having the need for fireworks in the 72nd hole, Hull Blisted its car down the road, but left its access to the right green behind the bunker. She played a top -style pitch over the bunker at 10 meters, but her bird’s attempt lost low and she entered to finish the championship in nine under, two strokes after Yamashita’s winning sign.

After leaving her fourth big race, Hull looked at the week again proudly. There were no mourning for a poor finish. All this was unexpected.

“After all, I didn’t even hit a bad blow to 16,” Hull said after round. “I hit a perfect blow, and only the wind was howling from the left and not even moving it like an inch, how I hit it so clean. It was a little sorry. Then at 17, losing that stroke. I hit a good stroke in the line. And then shame about 18 because I had a chip quite hard on the bunker, and I would have done it, but I was very good. Very controlled my game.

Hull now has four racing conclusions and 10 top 10 in her big career. She is still looking for her first elusive big victory, but she is not leaving Royal Portcawl leaving a lost golden opportunity. While the end result will leave her with another scar in her heart, it is the pride she showed in the war that will climb her.

“Listen, by entering this week, I didn’t think I would make the cut. That’s the truth,” Hull said. “I wasn’t hitting very well. I couldn’t prepare the way I wanted to be because I was poorly. I obviously crashed three times in the Round in Evian, and then I was still feeling well until Sunday last week. So I think I did very well, and taking into account my opinion, I am very proud of myself.

“I really liked it there. I felt so in controlling my game, and I know in my head I didn’t hit it – it’s not like making a car or removing a kick. … I don’t feel like I really cheated it wrong by any shots, which I think everyone can agree, you know what I mean?

On Sunday, while Hull made her way around Royal Porthcawl, trying to grab her way to Yamashita, she never looked at a steering chart. When she rolled into the long Putt in the 14th for Birdie to close the gap in one, she had no idea if she was in the lead or was still pulling out of three. For Hull, Sunday’s last round was an exercise in the process and discipline. This is a process that hull is trying to get back, something that helped him win CME Group Tour Championship in 2016.

While Yamashita plunged into the champagne in the 18th Green at Royal Porthcawl, Hull, the favorite of the fans who once again left a big championship as a bride, tried to look at her latest Miss in just a positive light. It was similar to the Rory Mcilroy round statement after losing US Open 2023 in the Los Angeles Country Club.

She put herself in the mix and gave herself a realistic chance on Sunday on a major. You will take it at all times and let the cards fall where they can.

“One hundred percent, definitely,” Hull said when asked if she would hurt even though she is proud of her performance. “But at the end of the day, it’s just a game. That’s what I think, and I enjoyed it there, and I just love that adrenaline feeling. It is so good. It is like a massive hit.”

And yet, while Hull watched her close proximity to perspective and class, a response betrayed the rest of her five-minute debrify with the press. It was short, but it was there, the same tinge of pain that has captured the faces of Phil Mickelson, Xander Schauffle and others who beat their head against countless main doors while trying to oust it.

“Just waiting to build it from here,” Hull said before looking briefly as if I could see what might have been during the last hour.

“Another second place in a major, yes.”