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Jonny Leighfield

Charley Hull Reveals Shower Incident Partially To Blame For Disappointing First Round At Paris 2024

Charley Hull looks down disappointedly at the Paris 2024 Olympic golf tournament.

Team GB medal hope Charley Hull revealed a bathroom fall earlier in the year - which caused her to pull out of the recent Aramco Team Series in London - ultimately played a part in her extremely disappointing opening round at Paris 2024.

Hull is among the bottom markers on the leaderboard for the women's Olympic golf event at Le Golf National following a first-round 81 which featured seven bogeys and a double.

Her issues began on the first hole with a double-bogey, and three bogeys in the space of four holes on the front nine increased the frustration for Hull.

A repeat of that pattern at the start of the back nine has effectively ended the Englishwoman's hopes of a medal already, but Hull is adamant her bad round is "out of the way" and is backing herself to do something memorable next time out.

The World No.11 said: "First week back really after my injury, so to get that round out of the way and [use it as a] bit of a warmup for the British Open now, I'll take it."

Charley Hull hits driver at the Aramco Team Series London event (Image credit: Aramco Team Series)

Going on to explain exactly what her injury issue was and how it occurred, Hull explained the problem arose following a fall out of the shower.

She said: "I fell over when I was on the way back from America. The team and I then had to pull out of the Aramco and had a week-and-a-half off golf because I thought I tore something in there. So I had an MRI and then -- my hip was out, shouldn't have played Evian. So I took like a week and a half off.

Probed by a reporter over the specifics of the shower incident, Hull continued: "Fell over coming out of the shower before I was getting my flight, I thought I tore my thing -- nothing come up. I just have a bit of arthritis now in my shoulder."

After going on to say that she played 10 rounds of golf in six days recently during her rehabilitation period, the 28-year-old insisted she is now close to full strength again but still believes it will take a little bit more time before she is truly match sharp again.

"I feel a bit rusty because obviously it's been five weeks since I last played properly a four-day event," she said. "But I played ten rounds of golf in six days. And I practise every day from six in the morning till six in the evening, so I played a lot of golf.

"When I obviously did have an injury, it knocks your confidence, not how I'm swinging it but more mentally. But I feel like a couple rounds under my belt, I'll be back.

"I was just saying to my agent, I'm so frustrated. I wish I didn't have a shower before my flight now.

"But I feel like -- I just feel like one round under my belt and then -- because I did actually have it going at Evian, after my first round, I was still a bit injured there, I was sore, but feel like now I've got one round under my belt, and tomorrow, go low."

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