Lilia Vu claimed a six-shot victory on the AIG Girls's Open over Charley Hull, who carded a final-round 73 to assert a second main runner-up end of the 12 months; Hull was seeking to develop into the primary Englishwoman to win a serious since Georgia Corridor in 2018 By Ali Stafford at Walton Heath Final …
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Highlights of the ultimate spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open from Walton Heath.
Highlights of the ultimate spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open from Walton Heath.
Charley Hull has vowed to assert an elusive main victory in 2024 after having to accept a runner-up end behind Lilia Vu on the AIG Girls’s Open.
Hull held a share of the 54-hole lead at Walton Heath as she appeared to increase the run of first-time main winners, just for her problem to fade on the ultimate day as Vu took management of the event.
The Englishwoman posted a final-round 73 to complete six strokes again in second, her second runner-up end in majors and fourth general in 2023, with Hull decided to construct on these near-misses and attain the foremost winner’s circle subsequent 12 months.
Charley Hull holes a sensational chip for an eagle on the par-five eleventh on the AIG Girls’s Open.
“I’ve come second twice now within the majors and for me most likely the 2 greatest majors, the US Girls’s Open and the AIG Girls’s Open, so I actually really feel like subsequent 12 months’s my time to win one,” Hull advised Sky Sports activities.
“They’re two completely different second-place finishes, as on the US Girls’s Open I used to be coming from behind and for this one I used to be beginning on the entrance. Now I do know what to do on each of them, so I simply really feel very decided for subsequent 12 months.
Charley Hull admits she felt ‘deflated’ after her closing spherical on the AIG Girls’s Open noticed her end six pictures behind winner Lilia Vu.
“Honestly I wish to be with my coach at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning and I simply wish to work on a load of stuff. I simply wish to get began as quickly as attainable and simply get working and make my fingers bleed – I wish to hit that many golf balls!
Hull made back-to-back bogeys from the third and suffered a merciless lip-out with an extended birdie probability on the fifth, then ended a run of pars with a sensational bunker hole-out on the eleventh to briefly get again inside three of the lead.
Charley Hull instantly slipped down the leaderboard with back-to-back bogeys early in her closing spherical
A bogey on the par-four fifteenth and a missed eagle at try on the sixteenth ended any slim victory hopes, with Hull bogeying the seventeenth and needing to gap a monster putt to save lots of par on the final and retain outright second.
“I really feel a bit deflated, however I simply do not feel like something went my means as we speak,” Hull added. “I felt like I truly performed fairly strong, simply did not actually gap many putts.
Charley Hull’s sensible birdie try on the fifth someway stays out as she tries to chase down chief Lilia Vu.
“I had a grimy lip-out on the fifth gap and it simply type of killed my momentum. I performed effectively. Not in addition to I wished to, however Lilia [Vu] simply ran away with it.”
Hull was aiming to develop into simply the fifth Englishwoman to win a serious, with Dame Laura Davies – winner of the AIG Girls’s Open earlier than it was a serious in 1986 – anticipating the 27-year-old to affix that group sooner or later.
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“One in all them [Vu or Hull] simply needed to shoot a low spherical to see the opposite one off,” Davies stated. “I believed it was going to be the opposite means spherical. I would thought the momentum was with Charley, however Vu confirmed us how good she is.
“I spoke with Charley’s caddie and he stated, ‘she by no means gave us an opportunity’. They by no means actually felt they may get to her – she was so in management.
An emotional Lilia Vu says she’ll keep in mind her AIG Open victory for the remainder of her life after easing to a six-shot victory at Walton Heath.
“Charley hasn’t received a serious but and possibly she was attempting too arduous. Yesterday she appeared so relaxed, whereas as we speak it was virtually like she was attempting to make putts – and whenever you try this it usually would not work.
“That stated, I observed that Lilia Vu received it quite than Charley misplaced it. It was Lilia’s present. Charley goes to win one very quickly. I like her sport and she or he has received a terrific angle.”
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