During her Wednesday presser at the Women's Scottish Open, Charley Hull seemed to be back to her normal, quick-witted and candid self. The first question hadn't even been fired off before Hull cut to the chase and explained what happened when she withdrew from the Evian Championship a couple weeks ago.
"I was feeling really rough on the Monday and I was being sick all day because I flew home after Ireland. And then Tuesday I woke up and I still wasn't feeling very well. I had a practice round and I was just so tired. All my bones was aching in my body, and I had a really high temperature.
And the next day I played the Pro-Am and I soldiered through the Pro-Am, because I didn't want to let my Pro-Am team down. But I felt really rough, and all my bones was aching still, and then I woke up the next morning on Thursday and I woke up in the morning and I felt really dizzy, cold sweats, had no energy," the English golfer detailed.
"I got through about 12 holes, and I was actually playing really solid golf. And then I teed of on the back nine. So it was on the third hole of the golf course, which was my 12th hole, I felt really dizzy and I was in the bunker hitting a fairway shot and I had to sit down for a minute because my eyesight went and my hearing went, and I don't know if anyone has ever fainted before. But your eyesight goes and then your hearing goes, and then it goes all muffled."
"So I sat down, got up, hit my bunker shot, actually nearly made birdie. Walked to the next tee, called the medics, and then before I hit my tee shot, my eyesight went again, my hearing went, and then my knees gave away and I, like, collapsed and fainted. And then I got back up, hit my tee shot. Felt like -- sit down, I was thinking, I've only got six holes left. I've got some birdie holes. Like, just finish the day, get to three- or four-under and I'm sound.
Walked off the tee box, 20 yards off, I don't even remember anything. My caddie said my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I was out for over a minute. And the security guard and the medic caught me just before I was about to hit my head on a concrete slab. So I was out for a minute."
Like, when I woke up from fainting I felt, like, I come out of a really nice deep sleep. Like, I felt really nice. I was like, oh, this feels good. I'm, like, that's not my bedroom. I see birds above me and about 15 people around me and I was like, where the f--- am I? Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to swear. Sorry. But yeah, that's what I see when it happened."
Though she'd be out for a minute or two at a time, every time she try to stand up, she would faint—which is why she needed the stretcher to assist her off the course. "[It] was quite embarrassing but there you go. Caught on IV drip on me. They took my blood pressure. It was 80/50 which is quite low. My blood sugar was 0.4. I think I just had a really bad virus.
It was scary but it was weird. Like, I look back, I was like, it was actually quite scary. But at the time I just wanted to finish my round. So I was gutted that I didn't."
Despite feeling embarrassed, what Hull did and was trying to do was incredibly tough. We all know she's a dog and one hell of a competitor, and hearing her side of the story of how she was trying to push through on makes us adore her more.
She went on to explain that she even asked if the new commissioner, Craig Kessler, who began his new job the week of Evian if she could finish her round, "I asked my agent, Vicky, to text the Commissioner saying, Is there any chance Charley can finish her round this evening? Obviously you can't but I was gutted. I just had no energy since then, really."
And though Hull said she's not feeling 100% yet, she's in the field the field this week playing alongside Nelly Korda and the latest LPGA Lottie Woad, making her debut at the Women's Scottish Open.
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