Charley Hull is one of the best players on the planet. It can hit shots most people can only dream of pulling out.
And yet, you will not find the Englishmen adjacent to television watching the game that she has spent her life trying to refine. Do not mistake what hull should not care about this sport. She is still fascinated by the game in her target form. This form rarely exists nowadays, however.
“I think golf back 20, 30 years ago, say 19 – to the 2000s, it was more of an art,” Hull said Wednesday at Royal Porthcawl before 2025 AIG Women’s Open. “The players, even then men, would have to hit the draws and fade and fill it, where I think now has become more of an electricity game and where it is done – the technology has progressed so much can hit it straight and far, and it is some kind of art.
“Whenever I look at Golf, I look at Golf and all that part, like those who won the British Open in the 1970s and it. I see it more interesting then. Like I wouldn’t really see Golf now.”
Loss of golf art is a worrying sign. As technology improves and concentration shifted from creativity to refine automatic efficiency, golf is becoming more cut and more predictable. Since its inception, Golf has been to reward the Creator, the player who can see shots others cannot – whose minds can create more fighting things to understand. Was meant to be A game for dreamersnot robots. Something essential about the existence of the game, a focal point in creating it, is fading away from the Pro game.
Rory Mcilroy’s masters win was almost more than green jacket
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A few weeks ago at Scottish Open Gensis, Rory Mcilroy was donated a dating wood In honor of the victory of his masters. He bubbleed a kick and then shouted, “could have played in every era.” The next day, my colleague Sean Zak asked if his game would have been translated again in the 1970s and 1980s, when Hull observed and the artist reigned, and Mcilroy took the opportunity to riff in the state of the game.
“I would like to think of myself more as an artist than an scientist when it comes to the game,” Mcilroy said. “But I think in this generation at this point with Trackman and Biomechanics and all technological advances, I think – again, I think my perception of myself as an artist. But I think with the way the game has gone through the last 20 years, we are probably more scientists than we are artists.”
Mcilroy is an artist even while the technological advances in the game make it on the other side. Watch it to navigate a course of connections, play a bunker or its 7-Herkuri arch around trees at No. 15 in Augusta National on the Sunday of the Triumph of his Masters. Previously that of Sunday, Mcilroy found himself left by the right path to no. 7, seemingly blocked by trees. Caddy Harry Diamond tried to get Mcilroy return back to the street, but Mcilroy insisted he saw an opening in the tree – a small window only the artist can open. He opened it, raising a 9-Hakuri through a slide of a trench, grasping a branch and almost descending it into the hole.
Technological advances in golf equipment have led to the “de-capability” of professional golf. Many tours are now whitewashed in driver competitions. Really elite leaders, those like Mcilroy who have perfected the ability and not only have benefited from having a pan for a driver’s head, do not reap the benefits properly, as technology allows younger players to stay competitive in most tracks. Longer iron skill is becoming a rarity. Mcilroy has it. As hull do, nelly cords and scottie scheffler.
Scheffler’s golf can be described as “robotic”, given how he methodically chooses courses. But the big champion four times is always the artist, just like the other legends he is writing his name together.
“He’s 99 percent of Savant Golf,” Scheffler coach Randy Smith told Golf Dylan dethier.
That is why Scheffler can shine in any course. That is why he loves Augusta National; It makes him think. This makes his brain see things more than the driver’s driver. That is why he learned to work the ball in both ways and can be supported in any shot form when needed.
“I would say, when it comes to play, I’m definitely more of an artist,” Scheffler said before winning the open championship in Royal Portrush. “I like to use the technology we need to continue to improve, but at the end of the day you are practicing to go out and play. You’re not practicing when you are playing, if it makes sense.
Try yourself? Nelly Korda shared what she is following in Aig Women Open
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The missing golf art damages the game in the long run. Iconic courses become outdated And as essential skills evaporate, leaving only technology and a host of modern players trying to choose everything through numbers and biomechanics. That is why hull will not look too much and why Mcilroy Bangs Back Drums, hoping to reassess a game that was once more than the free-and-RIP syllable for everyone has been done.
But while the golf elite is right, that art is no longer the main ability as it was on the day of Seve and Arnie, the best of the best are blessed with a disappearing gift. Perhaps what makes them stay in an era where 97 percent of players play the same style.
After his pointed victory in the Championship PGA in Quail Hollow Club, Scheffler, which is almost always the issue of fact after such victories, peel the onion back In what makes him score.
“I love following the attempt to understand something,” Scheffler said. “This is what I want for this game. I feel like you are always fighting yourself, and you are always trying to understand things. And you will never perfect it. I can be a kind of crazy person ever when it comes to putting my mind for something.
“In Golf, there is always something you can understand. There is always something you can do better.”
Like a schedule trying to make gears return or an architect who wants to leave his signature in heaven, they like Scheffler and Mcilroy, and Corda, Hull and others, find freedom in artistic. The two base them on the course and allows them to lose themselves in pursuing them for “that something” that little can see and even less can decipher.
In the era of ball speed fanatics and cube golf stars, the real golf still stands in the heart of those who play it best and raise it in the form of art that was always thought out.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.

