Charley Hull admitted profitable the AIG Ladies’s Open at St Andrews could be “very particular” forward of the primary spherical which begins on Thursday.
The 28-year-old fell quick in final 12 months’s competitors after being pipped by American Lilia Vu, who produced an excellent final-round 67 to clinch victory at Walton Heath.
This 12 months St Andrews will stage the competitors for the third time in its historical past and is a course that Hull described as giving her “goosebumps”.
She instructed a press convention: “I teed it up on the again 9 yesterday morning, and as you stroll down 17 and 18 you get goosebumps. It’s fairly cool.
“Clearly it’s the house of golf. It will be a particular win. One thing that you just’ve at all times dreamed of as a child, so it could be very particular.”
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The world quantity 10 begins her marketing campaign on Thursday in a gaggle consisting of defending champion Vu and world primary Nelly Korda.
Hull comes into the competitors on the again of a tied Twenty seventh-place end on the Olympics earlier this month and extra not too long ago completed fifth in final week’s Scottish Open.
She went into Paris 2024 recovering from a shoulder damage which pressured her to withdraw from the Aramco Staff Collection in July, however insists she is “able to go” for the Ladies’s Open.
When requested about how she has progressed from her damage, Hull stated: “I feel the primary spherical of the Olympics was extra simply due to nerves. Like placing in a whole lot of work, however coming again after that 5 weeks off, I simply get slightly bit nervous.
“Nevertheless it was simply the primary spherical of the Olympics, I don’t know why, after which the final three rounds I used to be below par after which I used to be again to myself and carried it on final week.
“My shoulder simply received slightly bit tight so I had acupuncture, and needles in it each different day.
“I’ve really received it after this. As a result of when it’s chilly, it might probably play up a bit. I’ve received degenerative arthritis in it as properly.
“So when it does get chilly, it will get a bit stiff, so (I) simply attempt to preserve it heat. Aside from that, I’m wholesome and able to go.”
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