Nine-year-old Charley is new England sensation
27 September
2005
Nine-year-old Charley Hull is England’s latest
golfing sensation after she swept away the opposition
to win a national championship.
Charley, from Kettering Golf Club in Northamptonshire,
tamed gale force winds and then triumphed in a sudden
death play-off to win the Grand Final of the 2005
Health Perception LGU Championship at Turnberry.
The 26-handicapper – who has already been talent-spotted
by the English Ladies’ Golf Association is a
member of the ‘Emerging England Birdies Midlands
West 2 squad”. She is the youngest competitor
ever to take part in the competition which attracted
an original entry of 24,000 ladies from over 1270
clubs in Great Britain and Ireland.
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Charley first swung a golf club when she was two,
she’s been encouraged in her golf by her father,
and she’s been picked for one of ELGA’s
Emerging England Birdies Squads, which are designed
to nurture young talent.
“I am so excited to win, I can’t believe
it,” Charley said after her stunning victory
on Turnberry’s Ailsa championship course. The
tiny player ignored driving rain and winds gusting
between 35 and 45 miles per hour to score 28 stableford
points and earn herself a place in a play-off against
46 year old Janice Cloran from Alkrington, Manchester.
Charley won at the second extra hole.
Charley received her trophy from the managing director
of sponsors Health Perception: the Olympic Gold Medallist,
David Wilkie.
ELGA’s squads are part of the association’s
Sport England, lottery-funded World Class training
programme.
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