The stars had aligned and the season for finally working in favor of Charley Hull. The Kettering native was winless for more than two years, but two weeks ago, Hull lifted the Aramco team Series – Riyadh trophy as she won that event for the second time in her life. Then, she teed up on the LPGA Tour, at the Annika Driven by Gainbridge. Over the three days of the event, the 4-time LET winner was trending and expected to win. After all, she was the 54-hole solo leader.

But luck didn’t work how she expected and Nelly Korda stunned everyone as she bagged the seventh title of the year, while Hull had to settle with a T2. With this, the Englishwoman’s winless period on the LPGA Tour extends further and the only event left where she can redeem herself is the 2024 CME Group Tour Championship. Even with The Annika heartbreak, Hull said, she was “really confident” going into the season finale, where she won in the 2016 season when she was asked about her confidence level at the press conference.

However, it was not something on her mind. All the 2-time LPGA Tour winner wanted to do was to be with her family. Hull added that she was extremely excited, “but I’m more excited to go home the week after. I just can’t wait to go home back to my family and that. I get really bad homesick.” Throughout the season, the 28-year-old pro travels back and forth between America and Europe. But she makes sure to spend any time she gets with her family.

Even last year, Hull was more excited to be back home than participating in the Solheim Cup. And it is understandable why she is more excited to be with her loved ones after the CME Group Tour Championship. This time, her family took precedence over her new love, well, probably because she has something else planned to do with him and that’s why the week after the season-finale is booked just for the family.

Charley Hull’s creative bet helped her score better

Yes, a victory would have been better than the T2, but after not being a runner-up on the LPGA Tour for the entire season, Charley Hull will take it more than any other result. And after all, this four-day event added three extra days to her off-season vacation with her newly found beau.

Hull made a bet with her boyfriend that for five birdies she makes at The Annika Driven by Gainbridge, she would have an extra day added to her European holiday. Hull has planned a weekend of a gateway from golf at the end of the year and after posting 19 birdies at the Pelican Golf Club, she added 3 extra days to her vacation, which she stated, “will be nice.” This would probably come after she gives the time to her family and, as she previously revealed, it would be at the end of the year.

Did this vacation plan and bet propel Hull to play better? She added, “100 percent. They really do help me focus.” If this is the case, then Hull should make more such bets with her boyfriend and maybe, at the CME Group Tour Championship, a birdie will hand her an extra day and help her finally lift an LPGA Tour trophy.