‘Everyone f***s up’: Charley Hull texted commissioner after making a 9 with birdie putt at Scottish Open

Charley Hull made a calamitous nine on one hole at the ISPS HANDA Scottish Open last week, and spoke about it candidly at Royal Lytham & St Annes.

On the 5th hole at Dundonald, she had 15 feet for birdie, putted her ball off the green and went on to make a quadruple-bogey. She hit four chips back towards the hole, and she finally finished with a putt of similar length to her first one.

The pin on this par-5 green was perched perilously on top of a slope, and in the week of the AIG Women’s Open on the Fylde coast, Hull revealed she told the commissioner her thoughts on the pin position via text message, presumably meaning Craig Kessler of the LPGA Tour – although the event was co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour.

“At the end of the day it’s about position. I am not going to sit here and say, ‘Oh, yeah, it was me’. Which it was me, but the pin shouldn’t have been there,” she said in her press conference.

“I texted the commissioner straight after the round. I was like, ‘Listen, at the end of the day, I know everyone f***s up’, but the pin was about a yard from a massive slope, and where it was on a downslope going towards a slope, I’ve had a 12-foot putt for birdie and walked off with a nine.

“I had four chips up the slope, but I shouldn’t have putted off the green. Just shows in fact that I’m human. Even the world number so-and-so can make a nine. I thought it was a pretty good nine by the end of it. I holed a 10-foot putt, so, yeah, I think I even fistpumped.”

Despite shooting a 78, the star from Kettering made the cut and finished tied for 44th. Hull has shown good form in the majors this year, having come tied for 10th at the Chevron Championship, then coming second at the US Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club.

She’s a three-time winner on the LPGA Tour, having first joined the US circuit in 2015. Having also tied for 16th at the recent Evian Championship, Hull is yet to get over the major line. Much like the support Tommy Fleetwood had at Royal Birkdale at this year’s Open Championship, the eternally popular Hull will look to harness the support of the home crowd on England’s northwest coast.

It was Korda who denied her by one shot at the US Women’s Open earlier this year to win her fourth major, and the American finished clear of everyone to win the Chevron, too. It might be that if Hull can finish above the women’s game’s dominant force, she could be looking at her first major triumph.

“I don’t really see it as a rivalry at the minute, because no offence, Nelly has got however many majors and I’ve got none. I’ve got five second places,” Hull said.

“So let me get my major in first, and then that’s something we can think about in the future. But listen, what Nelly is
doing for the game of golf is unbelievable and so good to watch, and she’s a nice girl as well.

“But I just want to get over the line and win my first major. Five second-place finishes in majors kind of hurt. I remember looking at the faces walking in on the first day from last year and stuff; I was like, ‘Oh, I wish that was me’.”

Hull’s recent form at the AIG is quite solid, having come second in 2023 and tied for second in 2025. Before 2023, she hadn’t made the top 10.

Charley Hull’s major runner-up finishes

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